Luis Rafael Galvez

M​r. Gálvez’s figurative paintings and drawings read as the probable contents of a writer’s recycle bin, experimental passages of a grand epic or an intimate biography. Paintings that present a complex confluence of narratives, simultaneously rooted in observation and biography, the mundane and deeply personal, the “lost in translation” absurdities of cultural conflict. They present an almost literary fiction that includes the wrenching history of modernist painting as a major protagonist. In the tradition of Latin-American literature, Mr. Gálvez observes that his work is “...more conspiracy than fact. Just because it’s made up or fake doesn’t mean it’s not real.”