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Ambiorix Deleon

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Featured Collection: Going Nowhere Fast

Ambiourix Deleon Robles is a self-taught Dominican painter born and raised in Bronx, NY. His work has been on display across central PA. Most recently, his first solo-exhibition, “Going Nowhere Fast,” debuted at the Community Room on King in Lancaster, PA. In April, his next show, “It’s a Rip-Off” will premier at the David Lyall Gallery in Lancaster, PA. We checked in with “Ambi” in his studio on W Grant St in Lancaster. At work on a new piece, he started with the color red on a big canvas and began to brush, recalling the artists that have inspired him along the way such as Frank Stella, Donald Judd, Keith Haring, and Jean Michel Basquiat. Below is his collection, “Going Nowhere Fast”.

I believe we are all artists but life takes you in so many directions that we forget that we are meant to be creative in whichever capacity we can. I would skip school in NYC and would head down to Chelsea with my friends and go gallery hopping. One day i saw “Flag” by Jasper John and it left a deep impression on me to where art can go in a “contemporary” way. I know I went out on a tangent but I actually started exhibiting art 2011.

I create out of a necessity to get my ideas out, it’s very therapeutic for me. It takes me out of my day to day, 9-5 grind, as well as it keeps me sane.

Sol Lewitt “sentences on conceptual art” influenced me crazy.  The Bronx because I know there’s a kid who is just like me, grinding trying to get their ideas to pop and that inspires me, the struggle.

Going to the studio everyday and painting …it’s different everyday I go, some days I’ll listen to Playboi Carro and Pi’erre Bourne but other days, I’ll be a super Dominican sad boy and I’ll play bachata all day. 

My style…frantic but on time.

Never stop, that’s my biggest advice in terms of painting.