"I never met a straight line I did not like." - Carmen Herrera
"A line is a dot that went for a walk" - Paul Klee
Kiko’s paintings layer grids and patterns of hard-edge color that draw formal inspiration from design, urban infrastructure, and the visual palette of city life. Frenetic, abstract juxtapositions ultimately find balance in a controlled chaos that can be equated to extractions of a street scene, or a street scene compressed. Urban influences are distilled into visual circuit boards of paint whose bold colorways reference Kiko’s native Philippines and its continued influence on his practice in Brooklyn, New York. Manila’s vibrant memory is matched by the influences of painters like Carmen Herrera, Jonathan Lasker, and Nicholas Krushenick, thereby locating Kiko’s work in a lineage of abstraction that is explicitly driven by the charged potential and deployment of color as a geometric spirit.
Kiko Bordeos (1982) was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. Kiko began painting and taking photographs when he moved to Queens, New York in 2002 at the age of 20. Mostly self-taught, Kiko also studied black and white photography at the International Center of Photography as well as collage and mixed media at the Art Students League in New York City.
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"A line is a dot that went for a walk" - Paul Klee
Kiko’s paintings layer grids and patterns of hard-edge color that draw formal inspiration from design, urban infrastructure, and the visual palette of city life. Frenetic, abstract juxtapositions ultimately find balance in a controlled chaos that can be equated to extractions of a street scene, or a street scene compressed. Urban influences are distilled into visual circuit boards of paint whose bold colorways reference Kiko’s native Philippines and its continued influence on his practice in Brooklyn, New York. Manila’s vibrant memory is matched by the influences of painters like Carmen Herrera, Jonathan Lasker, and Nicholas Krushenick, thereby locating Kiko’s work in a lineage of abstraction that is explicitly driven by the charged potential and deployment of color as a geometric spirit.
Kiko Bordeos (1982) was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. Kiko began painting and taking photographs when he moved to Queens, New York in 2002 at the age of 20. Mostly self-taught, Kiko also studied black and white photography at the International Center of Photography as well as collage and mixed media at the Art Students League in New York City.
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