Born in Los Angeles to an engineer and an artist, Mac has been drawing and studying art independently since childhood. Drawing inspiration from the surrounding Mexican and Chicano culture of the American Southwest, religious art, pin-up art, graffiti and a wide range of artists including Caravaggio, Mucha, Vermeer and Moebius, he began painting with acrylics as well as painting graffiti in the early 90s. He has since worked with a consistent theme of realistic portraits using bold and pastel colors.

Around 1998, he also began to paint technicolor aerosol interpretations of classic paintings by old European masters. This led to being commissioned in 2003 by the Groeninge Museum in Brugge, Belgium to paint his interpretations of classic Flemish Primitive paintings in the museum’s collection. He has been commissioned to paint murals across the U.S., as well as in Canada, Mexico, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium and France. For the last few years, he has been painting murals, painting photorealistic acrylics and creating stained glass pieces. He lives and works in Phoenix, in an old house filled with records, books and art.

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Southwest Goddess

Mac- Southwest Goddess