Urban FuturismCollector Guides
The Contemporary Capriccio: How Carlos Arriaga Reimagines Cities
An image-led essay on Carlos Arriaga's imagined cities, the capriccio tradition, and why invention can reveal more than a literal view.
April 29, 2026
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Collector GuidesTechnique
Oil Painting Over Photography: A Collector's Guide to Carlos Arriaga's Technique
A practical collector's guide to Carlos Arriaga's hybrid technique: photography, oil, pencil, grisaille, glazes, and urban light.
April 29, 2026
Climate & HeritageUrban Futurism
Why Cities in Contemporary Art Are Turning Back Toward Nature
A collector-focused reading of Carlos Arriaga's cityscapes, where nature returns to architecture as beauty, warning, and memory.
April 29, 2026
Technique
From Photograph to Painting: The Alchemy of Light
Discover the creative journey behind my art. I reveal the transformative process of inverting light, building grisaille foundations, and layering glazes that bring cities to life in unexpected ways.
January 14, 2026
Carlos Arriaga: A World in Transformation
How a painter-photographer turns cities, skies, and memories into living metaphors of our changing world.
November 25, 2025
Urban Futurism
Carlos Arriaga - Visions of the Urban Soul
Explore the artistic journey of Carlos Arriaga: from photography and advertising to his signature oil-on-photo technique, recreating cities, reimagining urban identity, and redefining space, memory, and transformation.
November 25, 2025
Transmuted Atmosphere
Cities Reimagined: How “Transmuted Atmosphere” Turns Urban Skies into Warnings
In his “Transmuted Atmosphere” series, Carlos Arriaga up-ends our visual expectations of cityscapes, using inverted skies, altered color and digital manipulation to challenge how we view the climate, industry and urban life.
November 25, 2025