Jose Di Gregorio
Artist, Muralist
Born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, this self-taught artist found his earliest connection to art through skateboard graphics and metal album covers, before years of factory work and restless drifting led him to explore his aesthetic identity. Over nearly 30 years of painting, he has developed a signature style of intricate geometric line patterns — hand-drawn with paint markers and straight edges — layered over aerosol-sprayed celestial nebulae and prismatic gradients, creating rhythmic abstractions that invite viewers into their own Rorschach-like reflection on existence. His work is rooted in a philosophy of optimistic nihilism, finding purpose and liberation in life’s inherent absurdity, a perspective deepened by raising two daughters while their mother navigates the advanced stages of Huntington’s Disease.