Jordan Rubio
About
My paintings are born from tension. Between softness and violence, indulgence and decay, joy and something darker, harder to
name. At the center of this tension is my alter ego, a character that began as a joke, a kind of low-fi mascot with a beer can for a
body. But over time, he has evolved into something much more serious: a reflection of myself, a critique of culture, and a mirror
for the viewer’s own contradictions.
This character is me, and also not me. He’s the part of me that wants to disappear into pleasure, to numb things with beauty or
noise or drink. But he’s also the part that watches, that feels the weight of consequence. I created him during a period of
emotional saturation, when I was asking difficult questions about identity, vulnerability, and control. He came to life somewhere
between introspection and accident, a grotesque yet endearing creature that holds both charm and menace in his oversized hands.
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