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Founded in 1994, Juxtapoz is a quarterly magazine that covers modern artists who deserve essential consideration. These are the artists who push the envelope to redefine originality. Nicasio Fernandez’s vibrant figurative works emerge from intuitive marks on the floor into developed work intertwined with the embodiment of human emotion and personal life experiences. The surreal-like oil paintings become thought-about shows of poetic absurdity, anxiousness, melancholy, handbook labor, pressures of life, and feelings of not belonging. Fernandez’s expressive solid of stylized figures with exaggerated features and unnatural flesh tones are proxies for the viewer to attach their own current circumstances. Fernandez studied on the School of Visual Arts in New York and has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Seoul, Philadelphia, Austin, and Seattle.…