Born in 1977 in San Diego, California, Abel started his career as a young self-taught artist, drawing inspiration from the barrio art and surfside aesthetics of San Diego. He enlisted in the US Navy in 1999 as an Information Systems Technician and trained in cyber security until retiring from active duty in San Antonio, Texas in 2019.

 

After his military retirement, Abel used his GI Bill to enroll at Our Lady of the Lake University's Visual Arts and New Media undergraduate program. He was trained in a variety of art mediums including painting, sculpture, 4D art, digital photography, and graphic design. One of his objectives in his work is to consolidate  all of these mediums into  a singular expression that narrates his creative vision.

 

His style is a syntheses of his influences, which include Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, Rufino Tamayo, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

 

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