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I started my career in New York (1985), after studying briefly at the Parson´s School of Design in Paris (1982-83), having my first two one man shows and several group shows at the Vorpal Gallery. At the time my work developed from abstract beginnings to naive-like images, involving concepts that concern the unconscious and the mystery of multidimensional realities, that is, being in multiple frames at the same time. After that, I came to Mexico and continue to work with the same ideas but different treatments, concentrating in narrative making different series that reminded you of a book. The style began to get more formal and the technique more fluent , it was not as stiff as it used to be. Always with the concern for the unknown, wich has been a directive in my work up to date. By the time I exhibited at the El Chopo Museum (1993) my work tended to the real form not in a hiperrealistic sense but with interests in treating form as it is, with no formal interpretations, just puling the pieces together in a way that it will be obvious to see. At that time my concerns where with time and memory I used black-white and color to differentiate realities.
From that date I guess that my mind got freer and less concern with
dogmas and prejudgment. My work as a hole has the distinction that it does not tell anything per se, it deals with communication concepts but not as a guide...there are no lessons to be learn, it is just telling with form what you expect to see in life. It deals with “extensions” that we want to get knowledge from, trying to grasp the feeling that we are always in the company of somebody or something, we are not alone here and there... It is just a matter of knowing and seeing that we belong and live in a wider sphere that we think.......
If Arvizu had not consciously been working with attributed values, to premonition, the dream, enchantment, invocation etc, his present landscapes merely habituated by , would have lack the sense of duality or ambiguity, but above all the sensation that the landscape is < possessed >, of something rare in the atmosphere that makes it unusual. This, that would seem like to much intellectual cream to the eye, in reality comes from a new postmodern visual education chance, that in the last thirty years has compel to see painting way beyond its mere formal spectacle.
Text subtracted from a critic made by Luis Carlos Emerich
I have shown my work in twelve one man shows, in galleries and museums, in New York, San Francisco and Mexico and participated in group shows in Europe and Continental America.
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