b.   United States           1977

Jose Maria Arellano is a Miami based sculptor who contrives interactive visual semblances from museum board and xylene-based acrylic paint. Arellano, a creative since a young age and inspired by the works of Patrick Hughes, became an artist in 2013. His optical-kinetic wall sculptures are formulaically skewed and precisely crafted to produce a virtual reality experience uniquely dependent on the perspective and movement of the viewer. They are experiments in optics, perception and interpretation