About Alejandro...
Alejandro Gutiérrez was born in Medellín, Colombia in 1966, and in 1982 he arrived in Minnesota to finish high school. He moved to Fredonia in order to further his understanding of the recording process. There he began crafting audio-visual works, produced the Internationally syndicated radio series “Playing It By Ear” (which was funded by the New York State Council on the Arts) and was inspired by John Hughson to explore painting abstractly using oil enamels in a large format.
In 1989 he moved to the Buffalo area with his wife to raise their daughter. Shortly thereafter he had a studio at the Buffalo Arts Studio, which allowed him to continue his exploration of the paint drip still in a large format. He then began to earnestly dissect his main material – the paint. This brought him back to when he was six years old, when the magical alchemy began: he would scrounge around the basement garage of his apartment building for paints, oils and wood, and burn, scrape, mix and mangle whatever he could get his hands on ... whether visual, sonic or textural. In 1994 he was invited to show his work, in watercolors and acrylics along side that of his mentor John Hughson, at the In Western New York Show at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
Alejandro’s work can be viewed and purchased at 464 Gallery.
My Work
