A conversation with Raul Sisniega, a Mexican figurative artist currently in residency in Roswell, New Mexico. Sisniega was raised in Mexico City - his parents spurred him to follow a straight and narrow path to white-collardom. Sisneiga’s relationship with his parent’s expectation and his artistic practice faced its reckoning in his mid-twenties, when he decided to drop out of law school and pursue an education in graphic design. This decision was still a concession, and finally, Sisniega’s impulse to create visual art in its purest form percolated forth in the form of wall painting that graffitied his apartment. Sisneiga was able to transition this private practice to a public practice by collecting these images with papers hung on his walls and plastering them to exteriors. This led to a decade spanning career in muralism, or as Sisneiga prefers: large scale illustration. Sisniega eventually cooled his muralism and pivoted to a more traditional practice, in which he’s able to connect directly to his globe-spanning collectors. Sisneiga’s work evokes the fundamental visual languages that threads prehistoric cultures, intersected by the aesthetic of a boy growing up in the 80’s with a Nintendo remote in hand, and exploring the internal angst that has teased him and us all.         

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