Antonio Murado

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to announce the opening of Velvet Room, an exhibition of recent paintings by New York based artist, Antonio Murado. An opening reception will be held Saturday, May 11th, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. This will be the artist's second exhibition with the gallery and will continue through July 13.  

Antonio Murado's career is steeped in contemporary abstraction, yet his basic principles draw from the past. Characterized by their luminosity and color, Velvet Room, presents three large-scale works highly influenced by the techniques and visual elements from 17th century Baroque Spanish painting, and the era surrounding this time of power, imperialism, exploration, and conquest....

Antonio Murado will be artist in residence this summer at Fundación Casa Wabi, a non-profit, civil organization that aims to promote collaboration and social commitment through art. The invitation only program invites residents to develop their work through the interaction with other disciplines and with the members of the local communities within the natural environment of the Pacific coast.

Created in 2014 by Mexican artist Bosco Sodi, the foundation adopts its name from the concept "Wabi-Sabi," which represents a vision of the world focused on the acceptance of the ephemeral and the imperfect. Based on this philosophy, Casa Wabi, located on the Oaxacan coast, was designed by the renowned architect Tadao Ando (Pritzker 1995), looking to generate a space conducive to interaction; where our residents and the communities of the region come together....

Antonio Murado works out of Mana Contemporary's fifth floor studio, 569. Upon entering this space, one is greeted by the warm amber aroma of freshly cut wood...

Antonio Murado's lush lush, subtle paintings at Holly Johnson Gallery are made with oil on Belgian linen. Their range of pictoral effects is calibrated with a sensitivity...

On first seeing Antonio Murado's recent landscape paintings, I asked myself, rather, "Where have I had this feeling before?"...