About the artist

Abel

• American artist
• Native of Logan Square, Chicago
• The School Of The Art Institute of Chicago. MFA
• Columbia College Chicago. BFA
• DePaul University Chicago. CDM
•.Commercial Fashion Photographer, 191993-2014
• Legally Blind 2018

Artist Statement


In 2018, I became legally Blind. Angry, confused, and simply mad, my world was now upside down. I began living on the edges of each day. I avoided people, places, friends, the sun. Up to then, I made my living by being a commercial fashion photographer. Now, what I worked all my life to be was no longer possible.
That was then, and now is now.

Today, I’m at peace. Working mostly from memory, my art practice questions the resonance of memories. It’s as if memories are a receipt of our very own existence. A somewhat proof that we were here. Without my own, I would be completely visually blind. With them, I see further than ever before.

Cheers.

Abel