Born in Los Angeles in 1980 to an engineer and an artist, Mac has
been creating and studying art independently since childhood. He was
inspired at a young age by classic European painters such as Caravaggio,
and Vermeer and Art Nouveau symbolists such as Klimt and Mucha. This
was mixed with the more contemporary influences of graffiti and
photorealism, as well as as the Chicano & Mexican culture he grew up
around. He began painting with acrylics and painting graffiti in the mid
’90s, when his primary focus became the life-like rendering of human
faces and figures. He has since worked consistently toward developing
his unique rendering style, which utilizes repeating contour lines
reminiscent of ripples. Turing patterns and indigenous North American
art. In 1999 he began to paint portraits of his friends and anonymous
Mexican Laborers in public spaces throughout the American southwest,
both legally and illegally. He also started painting large technicolor
aerosol interpretations of classic paintings by old European masters.
This led to being commissioned in 2003 by the Groeninge Museum in
Brugge, Belgium to paint his interpretations of classic Flemish
Primitive paintings in the museum’s collection. He has since been
commissioned to paint murals across the US, as well as in Mexico,
Denmark, Sweden, Canada, South Korea, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands,
Puerto Rico, Spain, France, Singapore, Germany, Ireland, the UK, Vietnam
and Cuba.
Website: http://elmac.net
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