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 R. Kevin Obregon is inspired by the "doodlings" and instrumental dialogues and monologues of Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, the Psychedelic 60s, and Cuban and Afro-centric music, which facilitates his "trance-born" dispersion of line and color and is most evident in his graphite works and large paintings, drawing upon the likes of Honoré Daumier, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Frances Bacon, Jenny Saville, and Egon Schiele.
Mr. Obregon works out of his studios in the artistically concentrated neighborhood of Little Forest Hills adjacent to the Dallas Arboretum and White Rock Lake in east Dallas. He is a long-standing participating artist and committee member that oversees the more than 45 studios in the White Rock Lake Artists' Studio Tour held every year in mid-October. He is also founder and chair of the Artists of Little Forest Hills, or ALPHi, an eclectic group of proactive artists who are helping to make its funky neighborhood even funkier with its public arts projects.
Kevin has shown his work locally for many years ranging from the Pan American Art Gallery, Art Prostitute, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC), to the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art and has an extensive cadre of private collectors nationwide. He speaks and demonstrates techniques at arts organizations, guest lectures & performs at Southern Methodist University's Perkins School of Theology in illuminating the hidden spirituality of artistry and art-making moved by the spirituality and perversions of nature.
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