Featured artist: Visual poet Ismael Velázquez Juárez (Mexico)

This week’s featured artist is the poet Ismael Velázquez Juárez (Mexico City, 1960), whose delicate compositions play with empty space, 18th century imagery and geometric abstraction.

Velázquez Juárez’s poems and collages have appeared in magazines in Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Germany, the United States and Spain. His published work includes Billiard Dust (poetry), The Art of Drinking (aphorisms); Places and Non-places to Drop Dead in Richard Brautigan (poetry): Where Do We Go From Here (poetry); Whether a Weapon (visual poetry); Bulldozer (visual poetry) and This Doesn’t Mean a Thing (poetry).