NADA New York 2025

Vera’s work is buoyant, modular, and transitory. He often hybridizes materials from the everyday urban environment into his paintings and installations to allow memories of landscapes to emerge. He paints by combining oil-stick and concrete. He uses oil-stick for its tactile immediacy and concrete for being a recognizable and ubiquitous material reference in the architecture of urban spaces. The surface of his work is used as an impermanent field of possibilities for affective translation and recognition. He calls his practice -- haptic contemplative painting -- and uses meditation as a tool to slow down.