About

Paul Alvord is an artist/designer living in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. He received a bachelor’s degree in Massachusetts, where he majored in fine arts. As a career graphic designer and now a digital product designer, he’s transferred the design tenets of composition, rhythm, and form as well as application techniques.

Growing up within an hour’s drive from New York City, he learned to appreciate the arts from a very early age. it was in the late 1990s that he truly started exploring mixed media, collage, and ink works on paper and board. Artistic influences include Robert Rauschenberg, golden-age hip-hop, Julie Mehretu, and Kim Jung Gi among others. After relocating to San Miguel de Allende in 2020, he has found himself part of a vibrant art community full of energy, encouragement, and variety.

Artist’s Statement

Machines as metaphors: The exploration of connectivity in the human experience. 

Whether operating independently or engaging with others, the pipes, hoses, vents, and ducts on display function in kind to the human condition. 

In both cases, it's the system that is compromised when the parts are ill-fitting. This work reveals the truth that adaptability, vigilant recalibration, and collaboration result in cooperative relationships which produce the greatest output. 

The composition, materials, and visual mood vary from piece to piece, which mirrors the uniqueness of the human experience.