Richard 'Ricky' Armendariz American, b. 1969
Beauty Marks: Sons of Velázquez VI, 2020
Oil on birch panel
24 x 24"
61 x 61 cm
61 x 61 cm
Armendariz’s Beauty Mark series explores through time, space, and texture an interplay of fact and fiction and a discourse on how society defines beauty. Using formal elements and explorations of...
Armendariz’s Beauty Mark series explores through time, space, and texture an interplay of fact and fiction and a discourse on how society defines beauty. Using formal elements and explorations of painterly texture within organic shapes, Armendariz explores how, historically, beauty marks have been both a positive and negative attribute.
