Kobe Defeating The Demons
$9,800by Luis Vargas
Oil on canvas · 30 x 40 in
The studio of Luis Vargas
Day artist, night poet.
Oil, acrylic, pastel and marker. Athletes turned into myth, old masters rebuilt by hand, walls that swallow a whole market at sunset. Every canvas here was painted by one person, slowly.
Painted by hand✦
Surreal sports✦
Oil on canvas✦
Master recreations✦
Murals in stucco✦
Portrait commissions✦
Currently on the wall
Three canvases that argue with
reality
The Fall of King James
$8,600by Luis Vargas
Oil on canvas · 30 x 40 in
Phelps for Gold
$2,400by Luis Vargas
Acrylic on canvas · 12 x 16 in
“El Mercado” — wall mural, 18 ft × 6 ft
See the wall
Photography · Studies in light
When the horizon
becomes the
canvas
Between brushstrokes, Luis collects the moments no hand could invent — a burning pier, a storm opening, one sail held inside a river of gold.
Pacific study I
Fire across the water
“The light leaves. The photograph remembers.”
Masters, by hand
Five centuries of light,
mixed again on a palette
Dalí’s crutches. Monet’s bridge. Degas’ chalk dust. Luis rebuilds them stroke by stroke — not printed, not traced — until a client’s hallway holds something that breathes.
Commission a recreation
Four rooms to wander
01
Surreal Sports
Athletes as myth — arenas that burn, demons that guard the rim.
02
Masters, Reimagined
Dalí, Monet, Degas, di Credi — rendered by hand, for your wall.
03
Portraits & Studies
Faces caught mid-breath, in acrylic, pastel and marker.
04
Walls & Murals
Paint at architectural scale, from stucco to storefront.
The night half
The studio has a soundtrack
By day the brush, by night the poem and the song. Six studio recordings live below — press play and let the gallery breathe with you.
Meet Luis
The night half
Night Poet
When the brushes are washed and the studio goes quiet, another body of work begins. Six recordings from Luis — words, melody and atmosphere made after dark.