Greetings from Nowhere.
Javier Robelo is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Managua, Nicaragua. He holds a BA in Art History and Studio Art from Williams College and is currently pursuing an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin. Javier's art practice provides a space for his imagination and lived experiences to intertwine. He creates an expansive visual world that transforms everyday happenings and autobiographical material into folklore. His work is inhabited by fantastical characters and strange monsters that serve as a tool to record that which otherwise goes unrecorded: affects, memories, and personal mythologies. Through this imaginative practice, he documents the deeply personal nature of memory and all of its earnest inaccuracies.
Misprints from Nowhere
2022
Linocut on paper installed on wall
Cabinet of Curiosities
2022
Colored pencils on paper, linocut on paper, fresco, nails, wood, metal, socks, memories, miracles, and other monsters
Collections of weapons found in the empty lot next to my house
2022
Sticks, metal, twine, colored pencils on rocks, paper, and a fly
One of you will betray me
2021
Fresco on panel
Friendly reminders
2021
Series of drawings
Colored pencils on paper
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Bare bones
2021
Plaster and earth pigments on wood panel
Hung to dry
2021
Linocut on canvas, string, and clothespins
Nowhere
2021
Handsewn quilt
Braindead
2021
Photo documentation of installation Linocut on matboard, orange Play-Doh, a dirty bathroom, and a friend
Printed Matter
2021
Linocut on paper installed on wall
Whodunnit?
2020
Boxer shorts, plaster, fabric, latex gloves, caution tape, and a very unfortunate incident
Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?
2019
Oil on canvas