Today we’d like to introduce you to Carlos Pineda-Palma.

Hi Carlos, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
I started my studies in Peru attending a fine arts program that was very dogmatic in its teaching. It had however a fantastic community being built with students who were all being exposed to the outside world thanks to the internet, social media hadn’t taken off the way it had now, but it had started showing us the possibilities in the artworld and made us ask ourselves how come we weren’t being taught and pushed to excel to the same degree in our studies as the artists we were being exposed to. I started taking online classes with artists I respected abroad while in Lima and soon came to realize I had to leave my home to achieve my goals, I couldn’t learn how to paint in this program and so pursued making comics as my only avenue for personal work. It took years and a ton of dedication but I finally managed to attend the School of Visual arts in New York City in 2016, I attended the comics program but thanks to the flexibility of the school I pursued painting courses with great painters that I highly admired even before moving to New York and so my foundation was based upon learning from the best cartoonists and painters alive at the time.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?

Too unsettling for the traditional yet too technical for the post-modern world. The path I’ve chosen to believe in as an artist is one of contradiction and counterculture. Regardless of how little widespread appeal my painting may get me, this rejection from the norm is a reminder the further I pursue my niche the closer I may get to tap into that themes which make us all human.

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?

I’m a Painter, cartoonist and curator working in nyc for the past decade. I’m currently working on the first volume of ‘Bushwhack’ my debut graphic novel and working on my next solo show here in the city. In my studio practice as a painter I combine traditional materials and techniques with a contemporary language rooted in animation and comics. Within my cartooning I work on creator owned books, writing, drawing, lettering, inking and coloring my own comics. Every inch of the page in the books is my responsibility and I like it that way. I’m also involved in curating shows in New York city and abroad whenever the right opportunity arises.

What makes you happy?

Creating constantly without any interruptions. Painting, drawing or writing without the need to stop and deal with roadblocks along the way or anything that might get in the way to create. This is specially frustrating when in order to create, you need to deal with the business side of being an artist, the networking or the mundane budging in. Preparing and arranging the studio or spending too long in applications that you know well might go nowhere. Making art gives me the most joy and brings me the most peace, the sense of urgency that comes with it even when there is no physical deadline makes it feel like its life or death. Once you reach your goal after reaching that peak of urgent angst, the satisfaction and power you feel is unmatched. So regardless I always chase that feeling, it is a certainty you will experience that just as much as you will experience defeat in the middle of the process of making something, you will feel beaten but you have to get past that in order to reach joy.

Contact Info:

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