When we talked with Roberto Lugo last December he told us many provocative things, like how he grew up in a poor neighborhood surrounded by grafitti and how the grafitti ethos (decoration, production and making a mark on the world) influences his own decorative and prolific output. Lugo told us that art saved his family but it seemed to us that Lugo himself was saving his family with his art impulse and his great big heart. The young artist, who is 32 and just received his MFA from Penn State University in ceramics, has an inspiring story and his work is unique and wonderful. Roberto Lugo will be one of the featured artists at InLiquid’s Art for the Cash Poor, June 14-15, 2014. Be sure you get over there and check out his work. More images of his work at Flickr.
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