ARTISTS

Born in Los Angeles in 1980 to an engineer and an artist, Mac has been drawing and studying art independently since childhood. Drawing inspiration from the surrounding Mexican & Chicano culture of the American Southwest, Religious art, Pin-up art, graffiti, and a wide range of artists including Caravaggio, Mucha, Gérôme and Moebius, he began painting with acrylics as well as painting graffiti in the early 90s. He has since worked with a consistent theme of realistic portraits using bold & pastel colors. Around 1998 he also began to paint technicolor aerosol interpretations of classic paintings by old European masters. This led to being commissioned in 2003 by the Groeninge Museum in Brugge, Belgium to paint his interpretations of classic Flemish Primitive paintings in the museum's collection. He has been commissioned to paint murals across the US, as well as in Canada, Mexico, Denmark, Belgium, and France. For the last few years he has been dividing his time between completing spraypaint murals, graffiti, painting photorealistic acrylics, creating stained glass pieces, and his first love of drawing. His work can be seen at www.elmac.net.