nico antuna

art

Abstract painting rooted in the US-Mexico border.

His large-scale paintings and mixed-media works draw on a Mexican American border identity, in a post-Informalist, abstract expressionist language. Roadside shrines, milagros and Catholic iconography appear as restrained references rather than literal images. The religious element concerns ritual and repetition, and the space between the sacred and the profane.

works

18 paintings  ·  tap to view
Alchemist
Roads to Damascus
Clouds
Wings of Gracia
Forget-me-nots
Elevate
Staring at the Sun
Where am I in this desert
Man Seeks Shade from Burning Sun
María IMaría series
María IIMaría series
María IIIMaría series
HypercolorHypercolor series
Hypercolor 1Hypercolor series
Hypercolor 2Hypercolor series
Hypercolor 4Hypercolor series
Hypercolor 5Hypercolor series
Hypercolor 6Hypercolor series

installed

offices, restaurants, collections
Meteora2Ten Coffee Roasters, Montana
María I, II and IIIframed set
Hypercolorthree panels
Conference room2023
Conference room2023
Hallway2023
Office2023
Detail2023

selected clientsMendez Isaac Joudi Attorneys at Law  ·  2Ten Coffee Roasters  ·  City of El Paso  ·  Thyme Restaurant

cover art

singles on xenoglossy records
Cicada 3301 cover
Cicada 3301spotify
Diamond Hands cover
Diamond Handsspotify
Feel Your Love cover
Feel Your Lovespotify
Same Mind cover
Same Mindspotify

commissions

homes, offices, restaurants

Paintings are made to order for a specific room, in a consistent style and palette across the space.

  1. Send photos of each wall with its measurements.
  2. Agree on palette and style, based on the room and on earlier work.
  3. Receive a proposal with each piece mocked up on the wall, its size and price.
  4. The paintings are made and delivered.

more

More paintings appear in liner notes and fotografía, among photographs gathered from his phone. About the archive.