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A new artistic technique has enlarged his repertoire. Paint streaks and splatters mark many of the surfaces, evidence of the artist’s hand. These elements add a sense of a single moment to canvases that can take months to complete. Get up close to the surface, sense the texture of each stroke, each drip. They feel random, capricious. But notice how in one painting, a comet-like streak is a silhouette of a human face. In another, a paint drop has “accidentally” landed in an empty eyehole, a perfect red pupil. Paint runs near broken pipes, like gushing oil. Every painterly element is a passing thought, a passion. Jiménez’s heart guides his brush as much as his eye. It’s our responsibility to the artist to get this close to the canvas, to feel its pulse.

Mike Fitelson 
Editor, Manhattan Times 
Oct. 2005

Jimenez art exhibit will run until October 31 

...his works not only bring joy to the soul, elevante it or deligh it, but also temper it. With this sampling of works, is tries to putt these spiritual forces to movement, to concentrate them. The rust of falsity, the coldness of indifference and laziness, to tend to tarnish the soul, Jimenez pointed out...  

Suburbanite newspaper, page 29, October 15th, 2003. New Jersey, USA

Jiménez lives the same way he paints: seeking out and highlighting conflict. He is keenly political, and cares deeply about the way others live. But it is not just empathy: he is immensely curious in how the world and its inhabitants functions and he is a keen observer. There is little soothing about his work; instead it is provocative to he point of seeming frantic. This is not an artist whose dream life would be to retreat to a pristine farm in Vermont and find inspiration in the beauty of nature. Even when his subject is from natural world, his theme is humanity, and his work is, if not decidedly urban, that at least populated with hopes and fears of the masses. 

Seth Kugel

1. Oceano de sigüieña nostalgica II. 2005. Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 25 in. This image is published under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0

2. Oceano de sigüieña nostalgica I. 2005. Acrylic, pencil, corn meal on canvas, 42 x 30 in. This image is published under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 

3. La crucificaxión del pensamiento. 2005. Acrylic, corn meal on canvas, 45 x 60 in .This image is published under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0

4. Caos y guerra II. 2006. Acrylic, colored pencil on canvas, 37 x 51in.

7. Bicycle transport of peace. 2006. Acrylic on canvas, 21 x 31in.