Press & Talks

Any chance I get to come home and do some stuff for the community, why not?

Painting vinyl-record portraits of salsa legends live at the Brentwood Tropical Salsa Festival.

Andres' ability to fight for better, both within himself and his community, turned a negative situation into a spark that uplifted so many around him.

After five of his most beloved pieces were stolen, he answered by giving art away — hundreds of pieces in the first year alone.

Part of Modelo's Fighting For Better video series. Directed & edited by Spencer Gillespie · Cinematography by Lucy Sandler · Produced by Marissa Ramirez · Drone operation by Spencer Gillespie

His portraits of Pope Francis, the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Gandhi, and Malala Yousafzai anchored Brentwood's "Gathering of Neighbors for Peace and Compassion."

I love that art can be used for activism.

Newsday followed a night of GEM drops across Bay Shore and Brentwood — finders arriving within minutes of each clue, nearly 500 GEMs given away in the movement's first year.

Working with weird canvases was nothing new for the mixed-media master.

"Messages on a Bottle" — coverage of his Words in Whiskey exhibition at Brooklyn Fire Proof East in Williamsburg: portraits of poets, painted on whiskey bottles alongside excerpts of their work.

It is his desire to contribute to the world in a substantial way that truly sets him apart from many other artists.

A profile of the GEM Hunts — held across Europe and the U.S. — and his Trayvon Martin stencil work carried by protesters, later published in Time magazine.

Coverage of the GEM Movement — the article that introduced his work to FANIA Records.

Interviewed at Art Basel by the legendary Latin music label.

On the origins and mission of the GEM Movement.