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July 7, 2024
by Pascual Hijuelos
As a child I had the good fortune to be part of an all-male choir. Consequently, I developed a great love for polyphony, Gregorian chant and religious rituals. I truly believe that my aesthetic choices are a result of this experience. In polyphonic works, you are simultaneously combining a number of parts, each forming an individual melody and harmonizing with each other. As a formalist painter, I am constantly weighing and adjusting time-space relations, the imagery, the color and texture to create a harmonic experience.
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José Pascual Hijuelos, a Cuban-American, was born and raised on the Upper West Side of New York City. After serving four years of military service in England, he returned home and went on to complete an MFA in Painting. He studied with Philip Pearlstein, Lucas Samaras, Jimmy Ernst, Lee Bontecou and Alan D’Arcangelo, and was the assistant to Al Held for several years.
An abstract painter, Mr. Hijuelos was nurtured on Postwar American Abstract Painting, influenced by such notables as Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Ben Nicholson and Al Held.
Mr. Hijuelos has traveled extensively. For many years, he worked as an archaeological site supervisor and illustrator in Bulgaria, Greece and Cyprus. He now divides his time between San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and New York.
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