Today we’d like to introduce you to Pseudo Mero.
Hi Pseudo, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
I am from Puerto Rico and relocated to South Florida over a year ago. I have more than twenty years of experience mostly as an urban artist. My bachelor degree is on Fine Arts Drawing and my Masters is on Museum Studies. Currently I’m writing my thesis on Santurce’s graffiti scene on the nineties for a PhD in History. My family always supported us into the creative word beause both my parents are creative people. We are three brothers and all of us are into the arts in one way or the other.
Since the very beginning, I’ve been drawing. As a matter of fact, I always carry a drawing pad, pencils and markers. When I was in middle school I started to notice graffiti art all around my city (between 1980’s and 1990’s in Carolina, PR). That sparkled on me as new ways to make art with letters distorting them into new shapes. Now, my art practice is heavily influenced by street graffiti in many ways, in how I draw or paint, the materials I use and/or how fast I work with them. It also helped to shape the way I see texture and how I can relate it to lived experiences.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
I always feel like I’m on the road, in constant movement, preparing for the next move. Life has showed me to be patient, to work a strategy and to learn from everything. There are moments when you say “if I did this or that things could be different” and so on, but I should say now that life is still giving me things to learn, to keep growing and lots of materials to research about. Being here has not been easy but at this stage in my life I can tell that it’s good to feel mature and fresh at the same time, it’s beautiful! Things are and will take their own place at their own pace. Having to move from my homeland to another country to practically start over is one of my bigest challenges nowadays and I am still learning from the processes. I grew up on a humble family with a great support and that feeling is still holding me to keep working hard and constantly. knowing that my parents did everything they could to raise us is one of my biggest example on decision making.
Trying to find my spot(s) on the art scene down here has been challenging and it’s starting to flow. I’m happy I am meeting wonderful people to collaborate with and I can see future with an interesting path.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I am visual artist specialized on mixed media drawings, paintings and murals. I’ve been an educator for a long period of my professional life and every project I have has a heavy educational and historical component. Most people know my work as a graffiti-inspired style because of the use of spray paint and other elements. The hens (chicken for most) is one of my emblematic icons and the combinations of primary and secondary colors into my paintings and murals is very notable. I also have a large portfolio of black ink drawings on graph paper and on colored papers. I am very proud of my collaborations with private and public art sponsors throught all these years. Because my projects are research-based, I can guarantee that almost everything on my artwork has a meaning and/or a purpose. I also try to work the relation between concept and materials when creating my studio art.
My street graffiti pieces are very particular because they look like a Wildstyle but they are abstractions from names and phrases that became organic forms floating and moving on a wall sometimes with parts from nature as birds, fish and other animals.
Can you share something surprising about yourself?
Probably, because I make a lot of research, everything I do has a relation to history, economy and politics. I may not be direct sometimes, or frontal (others I am), but I know they are there and is one of the most important element of my art. I also tend to expose some of my personal experiences as parts of the conceptual and/or the technical on the artworks.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.about.me/pseudomero
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pseudomero/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/psevdomero
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/pseudomero
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@pseudomero
Image Credits
All photos taken and edited by me, except mentioned.
From left to right, from top to bottom:
1- De Mahagua (mural) Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Photo by Francisco Aulet, 2020.
2- Levels of The Forest (mural) – El Portal Visitor Center at El Yunque National Rainforest, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, 2022.
3- Liquatorium – Mixed media painting – 2018.
4- Mare – Mixed media painting – 2021.
5- Mero by Pseudomero – Graffiti mural in Little Haiti, Miami, Florida – 2022.
6- Portrait in Flamingo Park on the Everglades National Park, Homestead, Florida
7- Portrait in front of the Levels of the Forest Mural, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, 2021.
8- Rumore – Mixed media painting – 2020.
