As a queer Puerto Rican artist, educator, and librarian, I work in the overlaps, the spots where one world touches the next. My paintings and projects drift across nuclear history and mid-century design, colonial memory and queer otherness, teen-centered spaces, pedagogy, grief, the daily machinery of institutions. None of these live in separate rooms for me. They operate like a single, lived symbolic system, where the atomic dream keeps returning as beautiful and hazardous, political and bodily, and unmistakably haunted.
30 inches x 40 inches | Acrylic, ink, and copper on canvas
Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción 