SPLANG! The Invisible Girl by Miguel Paredes

TITLE: SPLANG! The Invisible Girl by Miguel Paredes

ARTIST: Miguel Paredes

PRICE: $10,000 USD

ABOUT:
Paredes was born in New York and is of Latin American descent. He is an artist who combines the exhilarating sense of New York City’s graffiti art with skill and perceptiveness. Growing up 72nd Street in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Paredes exuded early signs of artistic ability and accepted an invitation to New York City’s prestigious Fiorello La Guardia High School of Music and Art – immortalized in the musical and movie Fame – in the early 1980s. His studies at Fiorello coincided with the explosion of street-culture in the city. Paredes drew inspiration from notorious pop artists like
Andy Warhol and Keith Haring and plunged into the world of graffiti and pop art taking the name “Mist” as his moniker.

Another influential figure in Paredes’ artistic career is his mentor Ronnie Cutrone. Cutrone was Andy Warhol’s immediate assistant at the Factory during the notorious pop artist’s most productive and prestigious years. To Paredes, his mentor’s paintings are the essence of pop: colorful, lively, and highly accessible. Cutrone’s constant use of bright and fluorescent colors not only influenced Warhol’s return to such hues but shaped Paredes’ color palette choices as well. Paredes’ piece “Ronnie is that you?” pays homage to Cutrone and features one of Paredes’ sons painted on a vintage Mickey Mouse bed cover. The child represents the artist looking for Ronnie.

ARTWORK:
The invisible girl was created in 1961 as a fan of The Fantastic Four, I grew up reading about Sue Storm AKA invisible girl, and later on the years she became “the invisible woman”, her character was very human-like, she was a girlfriend a wife a mother, she portrayed a beautiful woman, who spoke in a gentle tone and was caring, loving and educated but at the same time one of the most powerful characters in the team. In my rendition of her I wanted to express her vulnerability and at the same time her powerful strength, but one could say, maybe the characters should have been switched around, her first looking afraid and then protecting herself, or was she surprised by how powerful she could be that she is surprised by her own strength? 

Place of origin: Miami, Florida

Dimensions: 48 x 61 in / 122 x 155 cm (stretched canvas)

Technique: Oil on canvas (Framed)

INSTAGRAM: @artistmiguelparedes

WEBSITE: www.miguelparedes.com

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