About me

Luis Alfonzo artist photo

Luis Alfonzo is a Venezuelan-born artist living in Cheshire, Connecticut. His painting practice demands the same obsessive attention to detail he brings to everything he builds — and gives him something no other discipline can: a place to speak without words.

He is developing two bodies of work: a series connecting his background in bridge design with his visual practice, and Inside Out, an ongoing series of surrealist realist paintings exploring sanity and mental health through symbolic containers, maritime imagery, and watchful birds. The series begins with a simple grammar — a container emptied of its contents, which escape into the surrounding world at full scale — and carries that grammar across domestic objects, personal grief, institutional failure, and political elegy. Drawing on his Venezuelan heritage, the work merges personal memory with political urgency, rendered with obsessive precision.

His work has been exhibited with the New Haven Paint & Clay Club, the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, and Arch Enemy Arts, among others. Inside Out — Tomato Soup was acquired recently for the New Haven Paint & Clay Club’s permanent collection, and his work received an Honorable Mention at CAFA’s 115th Annual Juried Exhibition.

Luis holds active membership at the New Haven Paint & Clay Club, and at the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts as an Associate Member.

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