Darian Mederos
Darian Rodriguez Mederos
b. 1992
Santa Clara, Cuba
Cuban prodigy, Darian Mederos’ work focuses on the ubiquitous human face. Emotive and replete with meaning, our faces encompass the vast human experience, revealing everything at once or nothing at all. Even in concealment there is nuance. Our expressions cross borders, race and culture, they are a common thread among humanity. A smile, is a smile, is a smile.
With the “Obscura Series”, Mederos creates something new, a photorealistic abstraction. The bubble wrap reflects light and distorts the underlying image, it is only at a distance that the works come into focus. When viewed up close the faces dissolve into bold strokes of flesh tones and painted light. The artist challenges the viewer with the “Obscura Series” in asking us to understand the core of human identity, from a respectful distance.
Mederos attended his first two years of art school at Leopoldo Romañach. His last two years were spent at San Alejandro in Havana.
Darian Mederos currently resides and works in Nashville.