Mixing and matching

Monday, April 11, 2011

CANDY colors and letters—can they find wedded bliss in a painting?

Here’s an artist who admittedly claims that she’s more exposed to words, but not because she is a writer. It helps that she’s also a painter.

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J.D. Gwyn D. Hufano paints pictures and incorporates textual stylizations to her work.

He has a delightful penchant of inventing original fonts that seem to be inspired by graffiti.

Trained at the University of San Carlos, Hufano’s artwork is a combination of different styles and movements. The artist mix and matches several elements in composing the varied figures that can be found in one painting.

Apparently graffiti art plays a major role in the over-all look of her work, but it also appears to be very techno-pop art in appeal. On one level, it is playful.

On another, without the figures and texts, the background field is painted in the way a non-objective abstract expressionist might do his or her work.

That’s how complicated Hufano’s art can be when viewed from this level.

There just can’t be one description for Hufano’s paintings. But they are very refreshing to the eye, very bright and lively. If a picture can paint a thousand words, Hufano adds one more word to make it a thousand and one.