Vicky Barranguet found her own voice and colorful expression of life, emotions, and music through her studies with master painters, Larry Pons and William Scharf. Music and life are Vicky Barranguet's main inspirations. Balance, depth, connecting points, contrast, darkness and light, chaos, movement, rhythm, fluidity and flow are all essential ingredients in her creative process.
She is always waiting for the 'right' moment - the magic, perfect, most balanced moment - the moment when the painting becomes one on its own. It suddenly happens with no rules, no techniques, no mind. She goes on and on in this process, usually without stopping, until the painting is grounded, and she has expressed all that she had to say, and she has poured all her emotions into the canvas that starts vibrating, transmitting and talking: it becomes alive.
Barranguet states that she looks at her painting practice as an expression of what she lives and feels, and this is why each piece is often different than the other. They each represent different sensibilities, moments and situations: they are autobiographies. She stays as honest as possible, respecting the unexpected and allowing change.
Sergio Vizcarra's gestural paintings, rich in textures and colors, as the physical marks of a continuous meditation, express their own vital experience: the raw material of all his work.
In Vizcarra's work, there is a sense of eastern remanence, some underlying Taoist cosmogony. When asked about his painting, Vizcarra quickly quotes a japanese painting statement that reads: "Prone to intuition, lack of rationality, emotional expression. Great value to imperfection and the ephemeral nature of things", and clarifies: "There is no other activity in the world that I find as difficult as painting: it is the only challenge, the only disappointment and the great satisfaction". Vizcarra privileges the processual and opens the spatial, disciplinary and symbolic boundaries, in a clear modernist gesture, while resurrecting a long-standing romantic spirit.
