Franco Moiso is a Costa Rican visual artist with formal academic training in the arts. His sustained painting practice explores memory and nature as landscapes of meaning through abstract painting and mixed media.
Conceptual Framework
Memory as Territory
Moiso’s work investigates memory through physical analogies: cities, maps, and imagined geographies that serve as symbolic representations of personal memories, lived journeys, and future possibilities. Conceived as an open dialogue with the viewer, these compositions invite both intimate and collective readings, encouraging a heightened awareness of one’s immediate surroundings and the act of being fully present.
Nature as Revelation
A second axis of his practice explores the experience of nature as a transcendent encounter. Through landscapes, atmospheric compositions, and organic abstraction, his paintings seek to capture what nature reveals beyond its visible form: presence, order, and silence.
Technique & Medium
Each painting emerges through an intuitive process unique to the work itself. Built through the accumulation of successive layers, the compositions follow a logic similar to printmaking, where the final image is revealed through the gradual addition of gestures and decisions. Moiso works primarily in acrylic on canvas, complemented by oil and mixed media.
Education
2012
Bachelor of Science with a Double Major in Art and Applied Physics
Washington & Lee University, Virginia, USA