Don't expect to find him in an art supply store
For native Guatemalan Balam Soto, art can’t be limited to canvases, paints, clays, molds or even large-scale installations. It is just as relevant in the natural, the intangible and the unexpected: water sluicing through channels. Endless strings of computer coding. Electronic music mimicking graceful human movement.
“Art is evolution,” said 38-year-old Soto, who develops new platforms for his craft in his Hartford, Conn. studio and is now showing at New Bedford’s (Mass.) Colo Colo Gallery, from November 1 through the 28th. “It is important to see different kinds of art and to be exposed to a different kind of thinking.”
That’s not to say that the experimental artist completely spurns traditional forms. The crux of his work has been paintings and murals, the
latter of which adorn the Hartford Public Library and Hartford City Hall,
among several locations throughout