"The Night Mare", a large beautifully framed original print of a horse, signed by local artist, Bryan Valenzuela. Art measures 23" x 31-1/2" and frame measures 35" x 42". 

Valenzuela lived in El Dorado Hills and graduated from Oak Ridge before moving to Sacramento and earning a Bachelor of Arts in Art Studio from California State University, Sacramento.

From Bryan's website biography, "Northern California artist Bryan Valenzuela has spent the last couple decades aiming to perfect a unique drawing technique involving the atomization of the figure by carving out shape, shadow and light with handwritten text. Paragraphs, sentences, phrases, and fragments are used simultaneously as both the form and content of each piece. As form, the text delineates figures and subjects layer upon layer as shading. Words varying in size from the minuscule and unreadable, to large and bold are used in a manner similar to crosshatching and stippling. Though virtually unnoticeable from afar, once the viewer steps closer to each work they are engulfed in a barrage of words intermingled with other mixed media elements such as acrylic paint, gel transfer, gold leaf, and collage. As content, the language provides a sense of the inherent information and associations, metaphors and meanings that act as a meditation on the image.

In 2016 Valenzuela ventured into the public art sphere, garnering a $350,000 commission from the City of Sacramento. In October of that year, he completed a large suspended sculpture consisting of over 400 blown glass spheres in an abstract, aquarelle version of the American and Sacramento river confluence. The following year saw Valenzuela complete his first ever mural for the Wide Open Walls festival. Other mural commissions have followed in its wake including permanent works in San Francisco, Chicago, Napa, and Sacramento, as well as temporary works in New Orleans and New York. He has won First Place at the Crocker Kingsley Biennial, Best in Show at the California State Fair Fine Art Exhibition, received the Leff Davis Grant for Emerging Artists, and exhibited nationally in many group shows, most notably for Scope at Miami Art Basel and Moniker in London."

Valenzuela is one of two Sacramento artists awarded an art installation at Golden 1 Center, sharing a piece of the largest public investment in local art in the citys history.

Thank you, Mary H.!!