Vladimir Sierra -- Artist, Problem-Solver

Vladimir’s body of work ranges from hand-drawn animation to data-driven visualizations.  His evolution as an artist has been largely driven by a desire to distill sensual beauty out of meditative repetition of simple patterns.  Inspired by Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print-work and by Catalan Modernista architecture, Vladimir went on to create a type of mosaic which he came to term “ukiyotile” in which groups of like-sized tiles organically grow to fill the forms they represent.   Vladimir’s ukiyotile work has been exhibited in a variety of galleries along the East and West Coast.