Jeffrey Gutierrez

Jeffrey Gutierrez was born and raised in El Paso, Texas, where the long desert light and the slow weight of the Franklin Mountains shaped, before he had words for it, the way he would eventually look at a canvas.

His practice moves between surreal geometric abstraction, mixed-media painting, and small hand-painted figures. The work is built in layers — plaster, ash, oil, copper leaf — and resolves into image only slowly, as if the painting were remembering itself.

He works largely on instinct. A piece begins with a texture or a temperature, almost never with a sketch. Forms arrive over days. Geometry steps in to hold the atmosphere together. The figures emerge last, if at all.

Alongside his paintings, Jeffrey produces a limited number of one-of-one designer figures each year — custom-painted Dunny-style collectibles that he treats with the same care as the larger work. Each is signed, photographed, and released once.

Obsidian House is the name he gives to the studio and to the small body of work that comes out of it: a sanctuary of dark elegance, mysticism, and quiet making.