BIO
Jay Cinco aka DYÉ is an interdisciplinary artist whose work blends several practices together including contemporary fine art, photography and tattoo. He started his art career as a tattoo artist and a photographer. After getting his MFA in painting at the Academy of Art university in San Francisco he established himself as a contemporary artist with a research-based practice incorporating photography and fine art painting. His work is deeply inspired by a desire to explore the nature of human psyche, culture and society through aesthetic. Today he writes essays, creates experimental paintings and art across a range of media in his private studio in Tucson, AZ.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am more interested in studying and understanding the deeper sense of things through drawing and painting. When I work on my landscapes, I try to explore how these landscapes influence our consciousness and how our consciousness affects the landscape at the same time. The relationship of the personal and existential, the interior and exterior — the within and without. They are worlds continually fluctuating coming into and out of focus. Instead of reproducing the environment that surrounds us I try to capture the atmosphere and combine it with experience to create one composition made out of different views linked together by relation of shape, color and narrative.
Contact
I'm always looking for new and exciting opportunities. Let's connect.