Luis Gal Mexican, b. 1957
Luis Gal was born and raised in Mexico City, and received his artistic training in France. He now lives and works in Mexico City. The artist learned the painting technique of encaustic during his time in France. This very old technique uses cold wax mixed with pigment, and was popularized in the Renaissance. Not many artists today use this medium, but Luis Gal has found a way to make it relevant to the quality and texture of his Mexican landscapes.
Gal provides an interesting take on landscape because he avoids the typically saturated, tropical Latin American colors. Instead, he is more interested in the sophisticated play of light, but not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that matters in art: light in the artist’s mind. His colors translate the essence of things, the landscapes and the beings he loves, while at the same time attesting to his emotions,an exercise in artfully disguised melancholy. His paintings are quiet, slow, deliberate and poetic.
Gal takes us on a journey through a new side of Mexico with the soft and dreamlike environments that he creates.The artist occupies himself with a subject matter that is at the same time alive and vulnerable; he celebrates forms but he also records the corrosive passage of the hours. ” – Juan Villoro.
Luis Gal’s work has been included in several exhibits and is part of the permanent art collection in North and Central America. These include: The US Department of State Art in Embassies, Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City; Museum of Natural History, Mexico City; The University of Texas at San Antonio, and The French-Latin American Institute, Mexico City, among others.
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Luis GalComo Nostalgia, 2018Cold encaustic on canvas27.8 x 51.5"
70.5 x 130.8 cm -
Luis GalLa Desesperación del Agua, 2018Tempera on acid free paper9.4 x 9.4"
23.8 x 23.8 cm -
Luis GalLas Cosas, 2018Tempera on acid free paper9.8 x 8"
24.8 x 20.3 cm -
Luis GalLos Arbolitos, 2018Tempera on acid free paper10.3 x 11"
25.9 x 27.9 cm -
Luis GalPor que, 2018Tempera on acid free paper10.3 x 10.3"
26 x 26 cm -
Luis GalUntitled (Orange), 2018Tempera on acid free paper11 x 9.8"
27.9 x 24.8 cm -
Luis GalEl Viento Sobre las Espigas, 2017Cold encaustic on canvas31.8 x 35.5"
80.6 x 90.2 cm -
Luis GalColza 1 (green), 2012Powdered pigment, Conté charcoal and colored pencil27.5 x 39.5"
69.8 x 100.3 cm -
Luis GalColza 2 (green), 2012Powdered pigment, Conté charcoal and colored pencil27.5 x 39.5"
69.8 x 100.3 cm -
Luis GalCypress Trees, 2011Cold encaustic on canvas47.8 x 51"
121.3 x 129.5 cm -
Luis GalPalm, 2010Cold encaustic on canvas62 x 42.5"
157.5 x 108 cm -
Luis GalBosque, 2009Cold encaustic on canvas39.3 x 67"
99.8 x 170.2 cm
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23rd Annual McNay Print Fair
McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio March 2 - 3, 2019 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art presents works at the McNay's 23rd annual Print Fair.Artists featured at the McNay Print Fair will include: Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Ethel Shipton, Rufino Tamayo, Nate Cassie, Graciela Iturbide, Chuck Ramirez, Pedro Friedeberg, Pedro Diego Alvarado, Mark Schlesinger, and Richard Armendariz.Read more -
Made in Mexico
September 13 - November 3, 2018 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art presents Made in Mexico, a group exhibition comprised of Mexican artists. The exhibition explores the ways artists have sought to explain their world in terms of an alternate reality, drawn from imagination, poetry, nature, and myth.Read more -
Abelardo Lopez & Luis Gal: Landscape Expressions
October 24 - November 28, 2012 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art presents Abelardo Lopez & Luis Gal: Landscape Expressions. The artist transforms landscape genres through his signature style of carved impasto.Read more