The diver acrylic on canvas by ChrisGranilloArt in San Francisco

I’m a California-based fine artist and printmaker with murals, paintings on canvas, and relief prints displayed publically and in galleries. My desert upbringing has inspired me to build a body of work based on the use of bold palettes of brilliant colors to give my pieces deep contrasts, movement, and depth. Through the use of these colors and contrasts, I aim to interrogate assumptions of dualities. Juxtaposing the built and natural worlds, overlapping the past with the present, and inverting the role of shadows and light aim to invoke reflection on one’s relationship to nature and to folkloric mythologies. As a Californian artist of Mexican decent, I draw great inspiration from Mexican folkloric traditions depicting hummingbirds, native plants, and cultural traditions as a means to link modern day imagery to the past. I follow in a long tradition of Mexican painters.