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Fer Ricardez
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https://ricardezfer.com/ Artist from México, I mostly paint on Oils and Acrylics, Im disabled (SMA) and also an software dev
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“Cost of an Hospitalized Body”
Acrylic on canvas, 100×75 cm.
#Painting Selected for the Joaquín Clausell Biennial.
Each 10 mm square = 1 USD of the 4,941 my first hospital stay cost. Up close it’s pure expense; from afar, my body built from the price of staying alive.
A vertical acrylic painting made of thousands of 10-millimeter squares in varying colors. Each square represents one U.S. dollar from the 4,941 dollars spent during the artist’s first hospital stay. Up close, the surface reads like a dense grid of individual costs; from a distance, the tiny squares form the silhouette of a human body, suggesting a figure built out of medical expenses.
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Weeks before going blind from my tumor, I dreamed of #painting this. A friend mentioned a healer in the mountains of Jalisco. The Image on the map was the same temple from my dream. We went. I slept. The next day, I could see again. Later I found the tarot’s Four of Swords: a forced rest.
#OilCanvas
Oil painting titled Dolores y el Cuatro de Espadas by Fer Ricárdez. A temple with warm golden light stands beneath a cloudy sky. In the center, an eye and four floating swords evoke a dreamlike, spiritual vision. The scene feels sacred, quiet, and filled with symbolic tension.
November 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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#painting of a school #memory: working late at night, surrounded by code and notes, A fleeting moment half dream, half exhaustion; time lost but somehow enjoyed. #art #oilpainting #stillLife #contemporaryart
Oil painting of a desk at night with a laptop showing lines of code, a cup of instant ramen, and programming books. Warm yellow light filters through blinds behind the setup, contrasting with cool tones from the screen, evoking a nostalgic late-night study scene.
October 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Searching for foreign bodies with positrons (oil & acrylic, 80×45 cm, 2025). #Painting
After a PET scan for suspected metastasis, I saw my #body, #Crooked and #atrophied, molded by #SpinalMuscularAtrophy #DisabledArtist
Expressionist painting of a semi-skeletal human figure with a visibly twisted spine. The body is turquoise, almost transparent, showing bones in pinks and reds beneath the skin. The skull is exposed with teeth in a grim smile. A black background is cut by diagonal orange bands, suggesting both medical imaging and chaotic energy. The figure appears fragile, crooked, yet defiant
September 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Pequeñas Promises
#OilOnCanvas #Painting, 4 × 4 in.

“Do you remember when you said you loved me?
Do you remember when you said forever?
Do you remember leaving me broken on the sidewalk?”

#ContemporaryArt #MexicanArt #FerRicardez #SmallFormatArt #MiniaturePainting #ArtExhibition #ArtCurator
Small oil painting, 4 × 4 inches. It shows a broken candy ring lying on the ground, painted in textured brushstrokes. Red fragments are scattered, and one piece resembles the shape of a heart
September 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Nikita, the Catstronaut
60 × 45 cm
Acrylic on canvas
2024

Painting of my cat, Nikita ready to conquer space in her space suit with a Mexican touch. This painting captures her unique personality and curious spirit.

#contemporaryart #mexicanart #disabilityart
Painting of a cat in a space suit with a Mexican flag patch on the chest. The background is purple with bright accents, highlighting the cat’s alert eyes and expressive face.
September 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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This Land is For Sale
Acrylic, 2024

This painting was inspired by the commodification of land. Based on a photograph I took of my parents while speaking with a land seller, it represents a pivotal decision that ultimately led me into debt for a piece of land just 25 minutes from my hometown.
A painting of two figures in a dry landscape under a deep blue sky. In the foreground, one holds a black umbrella, looking toward another figure in red and blue standing in the distance, with a barren tree on the right. The work features marble dust and vibrant colors
September 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Spinal
Acrylic on canvas.

This painting is inspired by an X-ray I received in 2022, during a time when I was experiencing significant back pain due to SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy).

#Art #AcrylicPainting #BlueSkyArt #DisabilityArt
Painting of a vibrant blue spine set against a textured rust-brown background. The blue spine has a rough, textured appearance.
January 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM