Luis Gal Mexican, b. 1957

Mexican painter Luis Gal provides an interesting take on landscape through the use of a sophisticated play on light. He takes the viewer on a journey through a new side of Mexico with soft and dreamlike environments. "He celebrates forms—the triumph of blood and its invisible wanderings—but he also records the corrosive passage of the hours." - Juan Villoro

Luis Gal was born and raised in Mexico City, and received his artistic training in France. 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. 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.