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ABOUT THE WORK

One of the more successful artists today, Jose John Santos III has fashioned his own iconic visual language, which combines references to art, culture, and contemporary life. In this piece, John Santos III is joined by his fellow-artist and wife Pam Yan Santos. Pam’s work, although contemporary in nature, contains its own visual phenomena that focuses on locating the sublime in the mundanity of human life. Their use of fundamentally contemporary and often postmodern imagery and iconography lends his work a deeper sense of understanding by the younger yet more critical elements. The Santoses utilize the same storytelling techniques used by the classical and academic masters, yet his flat and almost abstract treatment owes itself to centuries of art history. In a way, their work is both a love letter to the encompassing world of art and a manifesto to the unfounded limits of human expression and collaboration.