Ricardo Vela

Artist Statement:

For many years of my life, photography was my only outlet to express myself. It was the stage I could voice my point of view. Using the camera as my canvas and the light as my brush, I could by capture moments in time, sharing the beauty I see in all things and tell a story.
However, my emotions grew more vigorous, as well as the need to re-express myself. That led me to retake the brushes, set aside the camera, and use the canvas as my new medium of expression.
It is on the canvas where RAW emotions, bold colors, and their meaning start to take shape. Now I can express myself with a new voice, a voice coming straight from my soul, not only from my surroundings. As I keep walking on this journey, I will continue to challenge myself artistically. I will continue to express who I am.
I want to thank all my collectors for giving me the highest compliment an artist can get: owning a piece of my artwork.
Ricardo Vela

Ricardo Vela started his journalistic career in the third grade when he started a school newspaper in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Ever since then, he has been involved in some or other aspect of mass communications. Ricardo was the news correspondent for Univision News in the Los Angeles bureau for over ten years. He moved to San Diego, where he was the News anchor/producer for the Univision affiliated for 14 years. In 2014 Ricardo moved to his hometown of El Paso, TX, where he was the news anchor/producer for KTDO- Telemundo 48. Until May 12, 2017, Vela was the news director and Main anchor for KVER-TV Univision Palm Springs. As of May 15, 2017, Ricardo joined UC ANR as Manager of News, Information and Outreach in Spanish.
In 1992, he won an Emmy for his story about a Latino family coping with their last days before dying of AIDS and how they prepared their children for their loss. In March 2005, Vela received an Emmy for excellence in Journalism in the category news feature for the story “Los Trovadores del Siglo 21”. This award-winning journalist received two nominations for the 2006 Emmy’s for excellence in Journalism, one in the category of outstanding achievement on health/science and on-camera talent- News Anchor.
His journali...