Gabriel Navar

In “Lunar Custard” the artist’s intent was to create a playful, surreal view of reality.  The sky is interpreted as a puree, and the hand literally smears the liquid-like sky with its fingers.  Influenced by the Mexican Magic Realist literature of the twentieth century, the artist is attempting to make reality “more real” by use of tactile values.

Lunar Custard, 1998

25" x 19", acrylic on paper