Antonio Carreno’s painting burst with Abstract vitality. With rigorous academic background gained in his 6-year program at the National School of Fine Arts, Santo Domingo, in his native Dominican Republic, and the Arts Students League, in New York, Carreno was attracted to abstraction for the freedom it offered him. In this mode he found he could let his conscious thoughts engage formal artistic qualities of color, line, and structure while his subconscious often took an unpredictable course.
Antonio has mastered the technique of creating atmosphere. He works in layers and manipulates geometric patterns and colors that construct new, hyper-real planes of existence. There is energy, movement, progression, and harmony within the work that holds the viewers attention. He paints without constraints or limits; painting becomes a spontaneous and experimental journey, yet it is also controlled and deeply profound.
Carreno Creates with a world full of spirituality through his art. In this world you can see words within the carefully executed brush strokes and feel emotions emit from the paintings. Abstraction is what gave Antonio a platform to express himself while letting the art speak to the viewer in its own personal way. Antonio said he prefers “the freedom and movement that you find in organic shapes: but he also says he doesn’t think of his works as just paintings anymore, but as “sources of energy” that talk to you beyond the concrete matter that you are encountering”.
“In a universal way, we sometimes talk about the air as separate from the universe, but for me I look at the earth as part of the universe and most of the things in the universe are related to the earth. If we want to know the answers to the universe, we can look to the earth-it’s right in front of us,” the artist famously explains.
