Galo Jurado

Every drawing or painting I do is a question: What am I? Who is behind my appearance or my body? Who is the one who sees behind my eyes? What are things and beings in themselves? .I can only see its appearances, its outer surface and I got used to believing that this is reality. But the essential is really hidden from our eyes.
Appearance covers up reality but also gives it away and I realize that art is an intuitive gestural synthesis that transmutes appearances revealing reality.

Galo Jurado began his formal studies at the Ecuador Central University College of Fine Arts.
He was also a disciple of the Venezuelan impressionist painter Galo Castro, (The painter of Ávila), for 15 years.
Trained and worked for 10 years as a restorer of mural and easel painting at the Art and Archeology Museums (Ecuador Central Bank). Where he was also trained as a Museographer and scenographer designer.
His love for nature would lead him to venture into scientific illustration by biologist Dr. Misael Acosta Solis.

Street and urban exhibitions from 1983 to 1997
Individual and collective exhibitions in several private galleries in different cities of Ecuador.
Galo Jurado also holds various exhibitions in Colombia, Peru, Cuba, Holland, Spain and France.