Artist's work inspired by guitarist
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Mercado says he had heard of Roy Buchanan before, but wasn't really familiar with his music until recently when he picked up a video of a 1976 performance of Buchanan's on "Austin City Limits" at the New Mexico Tech library. He was awestruck by what he heard.Here's some of Fernando's paintings from his Roy Buchanan series.
"The way he played that guitar was incredible to me," says Mercado, who doe not play an instrument. "He was doing all this different stuff, but he was able to keep it in check. I tried to get the idea of how I could translate that to an image."
Like Buchanan's music, Mercado's drawings are made up of simple elements that are put together in a way that they become expressive and unbounded.
This series by Fernando Mercado is curently on display at the Socorro Chamber of Commerece, located on the Socorro Plaza.
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