Hectoplasm

Hey there, my name is "Hector" and I am just a guy that loves making funny and funky art which has lots of psychedelic, galactic and other fractal-like swirls and patterns to it. So yeah, welcome to HectoPlasm.com! This website domain name is a play off the word "Ectoplasm" and my first name which is "Hector".  Maybe you have heard of Ectoplasm before via that well-known silly movie (hint: from the 80s) or perhaps just via some also-silly documentary, docu-series (aka, the NetFlix way) or perhaps a random YouTube channel or video that the YouTube recommendation algorithm sent your way.  It is funny, though, because Ectoplasm as it was defined or originally coined is quite fitting for what I do love about art and art-making, which is the manifestation of something that comes from a more abstract realm (be that ideas, emotions, dreams or other "inner" worlds - and "outer" worlds!), that is, something that is perhaps beyond our beloved 3-to-4 dimensional reality within which we live in/with.

You can view or consider this “About" page as a pseudo “Artist Statement” of types which some of the more serious art connoisseurs out there may be looking for; albeit, I have to say that in reality I kind of think of this as more of a pseudo-scientific-artist-statement. LOL! :)

Maybe you have heard of Plato's cave (no, not Plato's closet - Plato's cave, silly!) or maybe you have heard of or have even read that novel published in 1884 that is known as "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" - well, the idea herein is quite similar regards Ectoplasm/Hectoplasm and both the ideas and sentiments regards a popular 20th century art movement that itself manifested as "abstract expressionism" around the 1940s and specifically out of art circles of New York City at that time.  Albeit, surrealism, realism and the art of classical antiquity and the renaissance have also greatly influenced and enamored me as well - and so you will eventually see some art on here that both springs and lends from these dimensions of art history and influence as well.

Long story short, at one point in my life I took "art making" quite seriously, that is, I saw it as a kind of calling or beckoning that would be my unique contribution (my "two cents") in this strange world or reality that we all live in and share together - that is, I felt like the call to making art and bringing other creations of every other kind into being was what I was here to do.  "Creation" and "Creator" have always been special words for me and which carry with them a unique vibration or fingerprint which I aspire to resonate with.  The creative act, way and the creative life has long been what I admire and seek.  And, well, that kind of is what Hectoplasm is all about as well, that is, just playing with one's creativity, manifesting it like Ectoplasm and sharing it.

And hence, again, so my Art is essentially "Hectoplasm".  LOL! 

Most of all, I just hope you have fun and enjoy the ride that comes along with the art-making-process (be it as a viewer, creator or both) and that this perhaps even opens up a new world to you on the level of either art appreciation, expression, spirituality and/or more!  

Below is a very brief C.V. (Curriculum Vitae) as is relates to my training, education and background in the visual arts:

Bachelors of Science in Applied Mathematics from the University of New Mexico (graduated from and completed this 4 year program with the B.S. degree and was also a single additional class away from acquiring a double major with a B.A. degree in "Art Studio")  At UNM I studied and practiced Art Studio (Painting and/or Drawing, Design, etc.) under the direct tutelage of primarily and notably Elen Feinberg (Painting & Drawing), Margery Amdur (Painting) and Martin Facey (Painting) as well Art History & Theory under David Craven, Paul Anderson and Susan Anderson-Riedel.

Masters of Fine Art in Painting program at the New York Academy of Art in downtown ("Tribeca") Manhattan, NYC. (I only completed the first year of this two year program as I did not return for the second and final year of the MFA program) At NYAA I studied in the MFA Painting program under the direct tutelage of Wade Schuman (Painting), John Jacobsmeyer (Design, Drawing, Painting & Art Theory), Martha Mayer Erlebacher (Figure Painting), Frank L Porcu (Anatomy & Anatomical Drawing), Jon DeMartin (Drawing), John Horn (Drawing), Harvey Citron (Figure Drawing) and Critical Studies Art Theory & History with Catherine Howe.