About the artist:

Maurício Porto is a Brazilian artist based in New York. Born on February 10, 1964, in a small town in the state of Minas Gerais, he developed a professional background as an art director and graphic designer, after getting a degree in Advertising and Marketing in Rio de Janeiro. Passionate about drawing since his early childhood, he learned oil on canvas techniques at the age of 16 with a local artist from his hometown. Since then, his career as a painter went ahead growing and expanding as a self-taught artist, going from oil to acrylic colors and new subjects with a trajectory of more than 40 years of painting, with many exhibitions in his native country as well as the United States. Courtesy of MauricioPorto.com