The work of Colombian artist Mario Vélez is best characterized by the artist's clever combination of the two most identifiable trends in abstract art, uniting the structural and geometric with the intuitive and organic. During the 1980s and 1990s Vélez studied art internationally, in his native city of Medellin, as well as Vienna and Berlin. This invaluable experience coalesced in three visual languages that the artist continues to work in today: the forms of pre-Colombian culture, the language of abstraction, and the color of expressionism. Vélez has exhibited his artwork worldwide and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Latin American Art in Los Angeles and the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín, among others. The artist lives and works in Medellin, Colombia.