Izel Villarba (b. Seattle, Washington) is a Brooklyn based artist and industrial designer currently painting with bleach on black canvas. He received his BA from the Gallatin program at New York University, studying a combination of psychology, film, and visual art. His conceptual work addresses the constant dialogue between oppositions and the fallacy in our human nature that attempts to define them. Things are never just black and white. Bleach carves away canvas like a sculpture pulled out of marble block, while at the same time the final result becomes an object floating in the void. White and black are at once contradictory and complementary, always butting heads yet always compromising in liminal space.
He is currently pursuing an Associate’s Degree in Industrial Design and Technology, with a strong interest in furniture and home goods.