“I am who I am because I was raised in the melting pot that is Los Angeles.'
For some, painting is the use of space to make time; the act of capturing a single second, a gesture, a fold, a patch of light, and working it brushstroke by brushstroke until a single instant on a canvas expands beyond its parenthesis into the hours and weeks of lived life. The portraits of Delfin Finley are so saturated with time, so layered with light and colour, with the emotional charge of objects, that an image of a single person becomes an entire landscape.
Delfin was born to two fashion designers in Los Angeles in 1994 during one of the golden eras of street art. On casual walks around his neighborhood with his father, he saw the work of El Mac and other legendary muralists and graffiti artists. “I was extremely inspired by the artists leaving their mark on the streets of my neighborhood. When I moved from private school to public school, I became completely immersed in the graffiti scene.
The work usually begins with a conversation in the studio. “We speak about social injustice, prejudice, and racism. This definitely affects the person’s expressions and demeanor.” He then takes hundreds of photographs documenting the effect of the conversation on his sitter. These images are collaged together to find a moment that captures some essential quality of their exchange, only then does he turn to drawing and painting. The paintings always begin with the eyes.
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