Friends Print

I was born in Cali, Colombia. In 1999 higher education studies saw me attend Blake College School of Arts in London, while being there, I took drawing, life drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking courses. In London, I worked after Emma Wood doing printmaking under her direction for a year, I learned many different techniques such as intaglio, etching, linocut and monotypes. In 2001 I moved to the United States to attend, The Art Institute of Atlanta earning a Bachelors degree in Graphic Design in 2005, and a Master’s Thesis in Graphic Design from SCAD, Savannah College of Art and Design in 2010 with a focus on environmentally and socially responsible products and packaging. In Atlanta under Robert Brown and Cynthia Lollis I worked on letterpress, transfers, screen print and digital prints while doing grad school. I currently live in Berkeley, CA where home is and I work for UC Berkeley Ext. as a professor in the graphic design program. The medium I’m using is pen and ink on paper and acrylics on paper, both of them are extremely flexible and allow me to do things I didn’t do before, they both dry pretty fast, which I enjoy a lot.