John Miranda

John Miranda uses an encaustic painting method, covering his canvas in dyed beeswax to create rich and highly textured pieces.

“I was always surrounded by that desert landscape, I would walk as far as I could. I would go down to the neighborhood of San Felipe, where my cousin was. We were always swimming at the creek. So, I had this big sense that I could do anything I wanted. Life is good.”

Miranda pulls from his memory, from the spirit and resourcefulness of Chicano and paño art, and his immediate surroundings to create his works. He works intuitively, never overthinking the composition of a work.

“There’s no real straight path to these thoughts, to these ideas, to these emotions. It’s kind of just all over the place. Things just come and go from different directions.”