Felix de la Concha
León 1962

Félix de la Concha studied at the Madrid Faculty of Fine Arts from 1981 to 1985, the year in which he was selected for the First Young Art Show at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. De la Concha was awarded a scholarship from the Spanish Academy in Rome in 1989. He would remain there until 1995, when he moved to the United States, where most of his artistic career would be based.

His pictorial work is based on the natural and his execution is realist in style. He mainly works in the genre of urban landscape and portraits, but he introduces the concept of time in both areas as being fundamental for the execution process and to capture the motifs. His landscape works, which focus on architectural features and the urban setting, are frequently structured in polyptychs or series, as in One A Day: 365 Views of the Cathedral of Learning (1999), where he offers different perspectives made each day over a single year, and his Fallingwater en perspectiva [Fallingwater in Perspective] (2005-2006), where, at the invitation of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, he captures in paint his contact with that architectural milestone over two years. His series of portraits running across the spectrum from characters from the world of culture to Holocaust victims, combines his alla prima painting and videos featuring his conversations with the sitters as he was painting them.

His work has frequently been exhibited in Spain, but he has had a constant presence in the United States, thanks to projects with different institutions, including the Columbus Museum of Art (Ohio 1998); the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, 1999); the State Museum of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, 2008); the Hood Museum of Art (Hanover, 2009); and the Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, United States, 2015).

Roberto Díaz