Leo Eguiarte‘s work is like that of a grown-up child prodigy, someone who has sunken within the depths of his childhood fantasies and surrendered to its evolution. I envision him the type who doodled through class, overwhelmed by an equality of access to both left and right brain. More so than anything, his obscure portrayal of different life forms disclose him in this aspect.
The California based artist’s work is where abstraction and realism compromise. At first glance I see math and science: frequencies of some sort, perhaps the occasional space ranger or skull. But in it, there is more than meets the eye. Heavy themes are strung throughout, alluding to ethnicity and extraterrestrialism. A hint of clever manipulation lies in his work that only the most brilliant of artists attempt, for the sole purpose of personal entertainment.
A consistent simplicity and two-dimensionality is established in each piece, but viewers, or I at least, am mystified by the multidimensional aspects within. For all one knows, it is a parallel universe in which he depicts, but we as spectators can only take our interpretation thus far. The remainder lies within the peculiar imagination of Leo Eguiarte, a man-child turned artist.
