About Josue Ricardo

Mexico City artist Josue Ricardo’s sculptural work is an effort to vividly reimagine the allebrije—Mexico’s chimeras: brightly colored hybrid animals. His explorations seek to deconstruct the folkloric aspects of Mexican culture, liberate the spirit within them from the stale prison of habit and tradition, and revive them as living art. Borrowing from his architectural background, he draws his creatures’ sculptural structure in 3D space with metal wire, placing importance on vacuum over mass, and covers their skeletons with skin of painted paper mache. 

His paintings are an exercise in radical, dynamic freedom of form, color and texture, to find the limits of structure in chaos and chaos in structure. Their abstract nature is secondary to his exploration of the materiality of paint itself.

About the Divined Designs 

Equal parts fine art and fun art, The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo’s Divined Designs are based in the phenomenon of “pareidolia”, which is the tendency for perception to detect meaningful patterns in random stimuli. These divinatory works of art begin with a random, expressive application of color and texture. The primed surface becomes like a psychic teleprompter that suggests forms to the mind’s eye. Like a reverse coloring book, Michaelangelo outlines the spotted thought-forms in the priming, dream-catching and ghost-busting a wide range of expressive characters, using only black paint to outline the formed, and white for subtle highlights. 

The large scrolls are primed by Josue Ricardo’s expressive colors and textures. The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo’s expert line-work and portal popping abilities provide the vibrant ecologies and communities that people its planes. 

About The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo 

Originating in The Netherlands, The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo is a multi-dimensional artist and storyteller with a psychoactive personality and oracular sensibilities. Investigating where the limits of language meet the fringes of reality, his work finds expression through visual art, written and spoken word, music, film, puppetry, uncanny impressions, performance, and Oracular Interactions.

He is the host and creator of the podcast Self Portraits As Other People, the narrator of Consciousness and The Bicameral Mind: The Julian Jaynes Society podcast, and the author of The He & The She of It and Impatient Transformations.

He is none of the things he says he is, and more.