Arturo Meade

Arturo Meade is an artist whose work demonstrates both the felicity and the gravity of the artistic process. His work is immediately appealing for its vibrancy and joyfulness yet holds one’s interest with its underlying narrative and profundity. Heavy textures, high-contrast colors, and quirky, slightly off-kilter geometric compositions typify his work. Principally an abstract artist, but not exclusively, Meade incorporates ancient symbolism and a primitive, childlike aesthetic on top of rich backgrounds. Is it a smokestack, a burial site, a smiling insect, or a train careening off its tracks? You can never quite put your finger on it.

Meade was born in Mexico City and currently lives in Oaxaca, Mexico. Since childhood, he has maintained a close relationship with art and creativity, working as an experimental musician in his youth and later designing and manufacturing furniture for companies in Mexico, New Zealand and Europe. He began painting full time when he lived in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, where was also the creative director of several galleries, including La Galería Aurora in the Fábrica La Aurora. Since he began painting, his work has been shown in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico City, Real de Catorce, New York and Valencia, Spain. Recently, his work was included in a publication produced by the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City.

Working with a range of materials—from oil pastel to black coffee—he draws bugs dancing across a page, scribbles love notes, or joyfully splashes drops of paint. The result is exhilarating, giving one the sense that Meade loses all inhibition when poised to work on a sheet of paper.

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