Born in Brooklyn, Jurell Cayetano is a visual artist with a BFA degree from the School of Visual Art in 2014. His body of works majorly consists of portraiture painted in an expressionist style.
The artist’s subjects of work derive from photographic references of his peers. He treats his painting with a mix of realism and expressionism. They express liveliness and articulate emotions. Jurell's works range in diverse mediums including graphite, coloured pencil, gouache and oil paint. The artist paints in a post-impressionist manner with bold brush strokes and vibrant colours. Emphasizing the presence of the subject in the visual and bringing forth a sense of comfort among an amiable cohort of individuals, the characters in his paintings are usually chilling and whiling away their time, which is a sort of sarcasm to the societal pressure.
Streaming friendly visual narratives, the paintings denote a deep sense of desire that initiate a new world into his paintings. Following the road travelled by masters of the 20th century, Jurell focuses on an elegant approach over a conventional style. Tending to storytelling, they are frozen moments of people that he gets acquainted with. At the same time, they could be a figment of his memories that delve into a possible world where a joyful life becomes an ambitious advent.
Jurell Cayetano lives and works in Atlanta.