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Aldo Lira is a painter of contemporary narrative figurative works. He received his MFA, Painting at the New York Academy of Art in 2003 where he studied with Steven Assael, Vincent Desiderio and Ted Schmidt, among others. He received his BFA from Syracuse University. In addition he studied drawing at the Art Students' League of New York and with James Childs at the Drawing Academy of the Atlantic. While living in New York City he worked as an assistant painter in Mark Kostabi's Chelsea painting factory where he had the opportunity to work alongside and learn from a number of Bulgarian and Russian master painters who were trained in the technically rigorous art academies of Eastern Europe. His paintings have appeared in exhibitions in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and in Rosario and Santa Fe, Argentina.
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I am a painter of narrative figurative paintings. My paintings depict encounters between the everyday world of human existence and that of the numinous or spiritual world that intersects with it. The subject matter of my narrative painting reflects aspects of spiritual or mystical encounters found both in accounts from earlier periods of history and from contemporary accounts that parallel them. During our present era, the imagery that corresponds most closely to the archetypal images found in the paintings of traditional cultures is found in accounts of near-death experiences and of encounters with supposed alien intelligences, and this is where the bulk of my subject matter originates. A recurring element in these accounts is the importance of Light: Light seems to be a signifier of the celestial or divine. It exists both as a tangible physical and experiential element and also as a metaphor for the inner illumination that is often the result of these encounters. For these reasons light plays an important role in my paintings. I have made the study and implementation of the craft of painting a primary area of importance in my work. The technical aspects of my painting reflect my interest in the materials and techniques employed by earlier painters, in particular the 17th Century Spanish and Neapolitan masters. My current painting technique involves the building-up of images through successive layers of varying degrees of transparency. In forthcoming paintings I plan to focus more on contemporary individual aspects of the mystical experience. .....AldoX XXX |
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