Putting on our finery to stroll towards eternity, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
40x30
This painting is a retrospective of Lapetina's earlier work, where he used many layers in his paintings - up to five or six. In this painting, which can be viewed vertically or horizontally, Lapetina imagines roads that go towards eternity.
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Eduardo Lapetina is largely self-taught and constantly experiments in his studio. This has led him to develop a painting technique with unique characteristics. He has also attended painting classes with Professor Kimowan McLain at the University of North Carolina and with painter Jane Filer at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro.
"My paintings are a way for me to enter the world, not an escape from it. In the process of creation, a painting becomes a battlefield for my struggles about what is, what is not, what ought to be, what I like, what I love, what I hate, frustrations, disenchantment, embarrassments. My art exposes to the world my most private thoughts and feelings, forming a spatial connection between what lives within me and what is alive in everyone else. I want my spaces to be painted without intention, without conscious technique, without anything that might interfere with the connections I seek to create. I do not want to keep a tradition. I am not looking for beauty but the viewer might find it in my art. And it is not about any particular theme or motif, it is about effectively conveying the immaterial through materiality."
Learn more about Eduardo here: https://eduardolapetina.com/
Acrylic on canvas
40x30
This painting is a retrospective of Lapetina's earlier work, where he used many layers in his paintings - up to five or six. In this painting, which can be viewed vertically or horizontally, Lapetina imagines roads that go towards eternity.
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Eduardo Lapetina is largely self-taught and constantly experiments in his studio. This has led him to develop a painting technique with unique characteristics. He has also attended painting classes with Professor Kimowan McLain at the University of North Carolina and with painter Jane Filer at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro.
"My paintings are a way for me to enter the world, not an escape from it. In the process of creation, a painting becomes a battlefield for my struggles about what is, what is not, what ought to be, what I like, what I love, what I hate, frustrations, disenchantment, embarrassments. My art exposes to the world my most private thoughts and feelings, forming a spatial connection between what lives within me and what is alive in everyone else. I want my spaces to be painted without intention, without conscious technique, without anything that might interfere with the connections I seek to create. I do not want to keep a tradition. I am not looking for beauty but the viewer might find it in my art. And it is not about any particular theme or motif, it is about effectively conveying the immaterial through materiality."
Learn more about Eduardo here: https://eduardolapetina.com/