Edgar Cano

September 26 - October 27, 2023

Edgar Cano is a Mexican painter, drawer, and lithographer. He started his creative exploration while making illustrations and backdrops for the theater program during his studies at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico. Over an almost two decade artistic career, Cano’s work has been shown in various national and international competitions. He has had fifteen solo exhibitions in Mexico; and abroad, he has participated in more than fifty collective exhibitions.

Cano, a Member of the National System of Art Creators (SNCA, Mexico), currently works as Assistant Professor of Art at Northwestern State Univesity of Louisiana, in Natchitoches, LA.

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Artist Statement

The painting that I do is interested, simultaneously, in its own process and in the events of daily life, reinterpreted from personal experience. This expands, juxtaposes, amplifies, or accentuates them in order to create different evocations and a kind of point of convergence in which the author, the spectator, their memory and imagination and all or some segment of society will have to locate themselves. The axis, always figurative, but also recreated and complex, is the body, which is deposited on the canvas and configures narratives or correlates that combine reality and fiction until establishing a logic that intentionally dilutes objectivity and that, in turn, builds, a metaphor.