A favorite I just finished. I don’t usually express it out loud, but sometimes the struggle is so deep and so real. It came out in this piece.
Crowd 3
Color Dance
Shy 2
I am really drawn to the elegant simplicity of this one (pun intended))). Oddly it has so far been less popular than others on social media. Interesting paradox – keeping my own counsel regarding my art but mindful of the need to spark interest in others to produce income.
Apparently
Firestorm
Sometimes inspiration for my art is not so subtle. The smoke filled air and orange sun in Northern California is a frequent reminder of the living hell firefighters further North are going through on a daily basis. May they be safe.
Ape
Hombre 2
I did some work with the SF Mission Food Hub, a great organization that feeds 9000 families weekly. Visiting the Mission District put me in mind of the Latinx community and culture and this drawing popped out. Though I’m a native San Franciscan, my father was born in Guadalajara and the culture sings to me.
Caring
NFTs
I recently began offering some of my work as non-fungible tokens (NFT). An NFT is a unit of data stored on a digital ledger, called a blockchain, that certifies a digital asset to be unique and therefore not interchangeable. NFTs can be used to represent items such as photos, videos, audio, and other types of digital files. The NFT is unique and transferable so, therefore, valuable. Collecting these has become extremely popular and it has hit the art world like a tidal wave with works selling for millions.
As a computer programmer, I have been intrigued by the blockchain technology and its antecedents for decades so I am embracing it and eager to see where this game leads.
Here is a link to my NFT offerings: https://opensea.io/collection/jeff-quiros-minimal-art. A shot of one of these, “Sensing”, is presented below.