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Finale, Paper on inkjet print, 69.7 x 43.5 in, 2006
Pablo Vargas Lugo
Pablo Vargas Lugo (Mexico City, 1968) lives and works in Mexico City. Vargas Lugo has developed an elegant visual language of interwoven, abstracted motifs that reference landscape, designs found in nature, maps and weather diagrams. His practice encompases painting, sculpture, installaition and collage include a range of materials from cut paper to marble dust. The artist often manipulates spacial depth and volume by utilizing flat planes of color and foreshortening within his works. He has exhibited extensively throughout Mexico, Europe and the United States and was included in the 26th Bienal de São Paulo (2004), The Biennal de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec (2002), and the Phoenix Triennial (2001). Selected exhibitions include The Paper Sculpture Show, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, Orange Country Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, and the Sculpture Center, Long Island, NY (2003-7), Contemporary Projects 9 – Gajin Fujita and Pablo Vargas Lugo, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and International Paper - Drawings by Emerging Artists, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2003). He is represented by Emmanuel Walderdorff Galerie in Cologne, Galleria Maze in Torino, Galería OMR in Mexico City, Fúcares in Madrid and Massimo Audiello in New York, NY.