Johnson Lowe is pleased to announce the representation of Sergio Suárez.
Sergio Suárez is a Mexican-born, Atlanta-based artist whose practice spans printmaking, sculpture, painting and installation. Informed by Baroque intricacy, theological iconography, and traces of Mesoamerican material culture, Sergio Suárez’s work forms a universe where multivalent objects and figures navigate shifting landscapes and metaphysical architectures in dimensional flux. Often drawing from traditional woodblock printing, Suárez inks each block, transferring their images onto textiles, paper, and a myriad of materials. At times, his imagery remains unchanged; on other occasions, fragments from one block merge with and spill onto one another, challenging a linear understanding of time within any given context. Oscillating between empirical observation, material experimentation, and poetic/esoteric approaches his practice poses questions such as: How is matter transmuted? And why do we believe that time erodes when it simultaneously compresses dust into stone?
"The permanence of objects through time, one of the main themes in Metaphysics, is investigated by Sergio Suarez’s works in a way that is at once poetic and philosophically resolved. Nothing truly persists from a moment to another – we can almost hear the paintings whispering – but everything remains always partly as-yet-unaccomplished, and partly already dissolved. Yet, it is precisely in its unfinishedness that we can appreciate the beauty of our world."
-Federico Campagna
Sergio Suárez was recently anounced as one of three recipients of the Working Artists Project year-long fellowship program facilitated by The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia that culminates in a solo museum exhibtion taking place in June 2025.
Born in Mexico City, Mexico, Suárez studied at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design, in Atlanta, Georgia in 2021, graduating with a B.F.A. in Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking. Suárez’s work has been exhibited at Whitespace Gallery, Day & Night Projects, THE END Project Space, the Consulate General of Mexico in Atlanta, and the Atlanta Contemporary. Internationally, his work has been included in several group exhibitions, such as the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in London, the Haugesund International Relief Print Festival in Norway, OPED Space in Tokyo, and the Ionian Arts Center in Greece.
Suárez is the recipient of various awards, such as grants from the Nexus Fund and Idea Capital, as well as residencies with the Bemis Center, The Studios at MASS MoCA, Stove Works, the Hambidge Center, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His work is also included in the SGCI archives of the Zuckerman Museum. In 2023, Suárez was selected as a finalist for the Atlanta Artadia Awards. Suárez lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia, where he is the Co-director of Eso Tilin Projects.
