Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop culture are captured in the illustrations, paintings and watercolors that the artist creates. In some ways they are the same characters and events that Manuel Santelices covered in the past as a journalist in New York.
This watercolor work exemplifies the fluidity and vitality of the contemporary.
Zapallar, 2025. Watercolor
Zapallar, 2025
From the series Art, culture & society
Ink and watercolor
Dimensions: 9 H x 12 W in.
Signed by the artist
Unframed
Santelices is a chilean artist and journalist living and working in New York for the last 20 years. After writing stories about style, design, art, and politics for a number of magazines, including the Spanish editions of Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, and Esquire, and being a fashion writer in New York for Vogue Mexico and Latin American for 7 years.
