Today we’d like to introduce you to Sergio Gutierrez.
Hi Sergio, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
I’ve always been someone who learns through making. I started working with metal and materials decades ago through fine jewelry, spending years focused on precision, repetition, and understanding how materials behave under the hand. That discipline shaped how I think as a maker.
Over time, I felt limited by scale. The ideas I was working through about structure, the body, control, and emotion needed more physical space. That led me to expand my practice into mixed media wall works, using techniques and materials I had developed over many years, including my own patented ball chain mesh and hand-treated textiles.
Where I am today feels less like a shift and more like a continuation. The work is still about craft and material honesty, but now the pieces live on the wall, with more presence and more room to breathe. It’s the same language, just spoken at a larger volume.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
It hasn’t been a smooth road, but it was an honest one. Early on, I made a promise to myself that I would survive only through what I could create with my own hands. That meant no safety net just making, selling, learning, and repeating.
In the mid-1990s, after spending three years in San Francisco developing my jewelry and selling it directly on the streets refining both the work and my resilience in real time, retailers began responding to my work, allowing the practice to grow into SG Liquid Metal Inc.; in 1996, I relocated to Miami, where the company expanded into many retail stores.
Those years shaped everything I do now. They taught me patience, discipline, and respect for process. The mixed-media wall art I create today is rooted in that same mindset: build it yourself, understand it deeply, and let the work earn its place.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
My work centers on mixed media wall pieces built through a long, hands-on relationship with material. I work primarily with metal and textiles, using techniques I’ve developed over decades, including my own patented ball chain mesh. What I specialize in isn’t a single medium, but understanding how materials behave how structure, weight, and movement can carry meaning.
I’m probably best known for inventing that mesh language, which first took shape on the body and later expanded into wall-based works. What’s most important to me is that the work is built from the ground up. Nothing is found or assembled casually; every element is made, altered, and tested by hand until it earns its place.
What I’m most proud of is staying independent in both process and thinking. From my early years in San Francisco where I was transforming discarded computer components into small art objects and later developing my own material systems I committed to surviving through what I could make with my hands. That decision shaped not just my career, but my approach to art.
What sets my work apart is that it comes from invention, not adaptation. The pieces aren’t decorative or trend-driven they’re physical explorations of structure, tension, and transformation. The scale has changed over time, but the intent hasn’t. The work is still about precision meeting emotion, and letting material speak without explanation.
Are there any apps, books, podcasts, blogs or other resources you think our readers should check out?
Cathedral architecture has been one of my most consistent sources of inspiration. I’m drawn to the scale, the patience, and the devotion behind those structures the fact that they were built over lifetimes, not for speed or trends. The way light moves through them, how weight and openness coexist, and how materials carry both strength and reverence deeply resonates with how I think about making work.
When I travel, I spend hours inside these spaces photographing details textures, transitions, light patterns, structural rhythms. Those moments stay with me. They influence how I think about presence, balance, and how a piece holds space. In many ways, my wall works aim for a similar experience: quiet intensity, physical weight, and a sense that the material is doing more than just occupying a surface.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.arttechgallery.com/
- Instagram: @LiquidMetalCollection
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SGLiquidMetal/
- Twitter: https://x.com/SGLiquidMetal
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@bySergioGutierrez
