The Contour of Luxury Spring/Summer 2020 Issue | Page 561
Torres taps into universal collective
memory with playful themes and
ironic juxtapositions relevant to
the contemporary experience.
His series range from portraits
of ordinary people, cultural,
military to a diverse sampling
of symbols from popular
culture.
These
images
are then reimagined and
reconstructed employing a
unique multi-layer painting
technique. Inspired by the
agrarian lifestyle of his
friends and family, Torres
plants an idea for each new
work and harvests it at
completion according to the
lunar patterns followed by
his ancestors in his native
Cuba. To record this ritual, each
painting is begun and finished
on a waning moon and recorded
with his signature on the canvas.
Torres has had numerous solo and
group exhibitions in the United States
and abroad. Torres’s work can be found
in major private and public collections,
including the private collections of
Will Smith, Los Angeles, CA; Bernie
Marcus, Boca Raton, FL; Delta Airlines,
Atlanta GA; Laura Rathe, Houston,
TX; Museum of Art Matanzas, Cuba;
David Mills, San Francisco, CA;
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith,
Atlanta, GA, and a host others.