William Osorio
Bio
William Osorio is a Cuban-American artist utilizing his practice to investigate human behavior as it converges with themes of identity and place. Osorio’s affinity for the power of the arts started in his youth. He studied briefly at the School of Fine Arts in Holguin before emigrating to the US, where he further developed his skills on a self-taught basis. Osorio’s fascinations lie in the correspondent realities between the past and present using artistic allegories – either historic, contemporary, or his own – within this exploration. The trajectory of Osorio’s life has inspired the depth, spontaneity, and curiosity present within his work. Osorio’s work resides in the permanent collections of Pérez Art Museum Miami (Miami, FL), Espacio 23 (Miami, FL), and the Frost Art Museum (Miami, FL).
Statement
My artistic practice consists of a game of concealment and revelation of the subject; in an attempt to analyze human behavior. The human figure as a pictorial element becomes an unavoidable reference. In my body of work, there is a permanent reference of literature, which serves as support and inspiration before, during, and after the creative process. I start from philosophical thoughts that I try to connect with visual resources, appropriated from the environment, the socio-political, and art history. The intention of my work as an artist lies in the invitation to the question, not the finding of the answer. To the analysis of what appears not to need it. I support the use of traditional materials to represent a traditional genre (portrait) in a non-traditional way. With my work, I try to investigate the complexities of the human condition and in the absurd, the tragic and the divine that composes it.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
