William Hernandez Molina | Portland/Peruvian Artist

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Art Conversations in Autumn | William Hernandez Molina

Over the last 8 to 10 years, seems we’ve become somewhat amateur art collectors. We picked up a painting for a steal at a local farmer’ market. The paining was originally done for a restaurant, but was done too large for the space it was meant to be placed, and the artist didn’t want to store it anymore. That was the beginning of our art collecting journey, I think.

Since then, Michael got his hands on a documentary called “Herb & Dorothy”. The film tells the extraordinary tale of Herb and Dorothy Vogel, a seemingly ordinary couple who filled their humble one-bedroom New York apartment with more than 4,000 works of art over a 45-year period. Filmmaker Megumi Sasaki turns her lens on the Vogels during a critical period of transition for the couple and their cherished collection.

This started Michael’s foray into blogging, where he is starting to catalog our art collection, which, for all we know could be a Vogel Collection in waiting. We got a digital SLR, lights and registered a place to keep track of it all. This is going to be a long process; trying to remember who and where we got this art from, what we paid for it, finding contact information to help others connect to the artist and showing what we found in the best possible light.

Here’s a new mini-collection we’ve gathered over the last month or so. The piece above, “Conversations in Autumn”, is a self portrait of the artist at breakfast with friends. The artist is in the yellow shirt (the only one with a yellow shirt, interestingly) and the item in the opposite corner, is a robot that one of his friends built. It was is part of the ritual breakfast, from what I understand.

William Hernandez Molina, Portlandian Peruvian Artist.

Born: Lima Peru 1977
William is a Peruvian artist who completed his professional education in Painting at La Escuela de Bellas Artes del Perú in 2002. He received a scholarship to study printmaking during the summers in Puerto Varas, Chile through the program, Taller de arte Joven (1998-2000).

In his professional career, William works as a graphic designer for many international and public institutions. He is also an art teacher specializing in drawing and painting for the Museo de arte de Lima. He currently resides in the United States, in Oregon.

Art is a journey full of creative and expressive possibilities with one single objective: to be sincere in all that one does. My life is full of color, and I feel the necessity to express that chromatic gamut on the canvas, reinventing and designing my hopes and desires through the figures that I create. My artwork is heavily influenced by the chaos of urban life; I mix playful, dreamlike figures with vibrant cityscapes.

My art involves different graphic techniques and a distinctive line in every figure and urban landscape. My art portrays delicacy and serenity in figurative pieces, soul and color in abstracts. This blending of styles encompasses the feeling of the dreamlike, representational world of my works. His Artworks are in private collections in Spain, Lima, United States, Germany, Guatemala, Chile. -William Hernandez Molina

See more of his work here.
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These are the other three pieces we purchased from William.

Te Espero

La Senoridad

Altura