Transitions will be shown on December 6, from 6-11 p.m. The Canadian market was slower to react and it was not until the last year and a half when my original work started to sell more in Canada.” Transitions one night only “I had a lot of success online and started selling mostly outside of the Canadian market. These days, he is focused on his own original work painting from his artist studio. His portraits have also been taken to large-scale murals in projects such as Underground Park and Union Station Revitalization Project. It can also be very isolating as an artist so I found I had to take extra steps to find communities that I could connect with.”ĭelgado has been recognized through various grants and awards with Toronto Arts Council, Toronto Arts Foundation, Canada Arts Council and as a former artist in residence at Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. “After that it was easier, but to start it is very hard. It was not until I started doing my community work and was able to partner with local well-known organizations and galleries that I started receiving grants for my work,” he says. “The supports available to artists such as grants are very hard to access as immigrant due to lack of understanding the system, lack of Canadian experience and language. It was this sort of community work that helped Delgado establish himself as a professional artist in Canada. After that I started to focus on expanding my art work by doing live painting, murals and doing art in communities in Toronto teaching youth in marginalized communities how to do art on sneakers.” “For the first few years it was hard and I had no work via my art. “I came here because my wife was living here and we decided to make our life here,” he says. He says being an artist as a new immigrant can be challenging. and Canada.ĭelgado, who immigrated to Canada in 2010, knows about change. “I think there is so much that can be captured in a person’s expression and the slightest change or movement of their face can say so much,” says Delgado, who has an international following and has shown his work in more than seven countries and has collectors in Australia, the U.K., Europe, South America and Asia, as well as major cities across the U.S.A. Through the mixing of the soft and the bold techniques of portrait painting, the pieces give voice to the contradictory and conflicting emotions, excitement and challenges experienced during a time of change. Known for his abstract portraits Faces of the System, which translate the human experience through a vivid, strong and organic process of paint layering, Delgado is taking a new direction in this series of Transitions. A portrait from Carlos Delgado’s Transitions.
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