For visual artist Elbert Caballero, painting has been a lifetime vocation-- often tedious obsession and exacting discipline--to practice on a daily basis. It is art since it allows him the freely draw realistic figures he so adores; It is also a science permitting him to create a technical illusion of colored optics to be viewed from afar.

Using his distinct visual style of marrying realism and pointillism, for his second solo exhibition, Ode to Ordinary Objects, Caballero dwells deeper down into his aged memory. As a result of the ongoing two-year pandemic, Caballero purposely reflected —while being stuck at home— in appreciating the common things that made the biggest impact in his life as a son, as, father, and as husband to his family--they strive to survive in dignity in this ongoing quagmire.

-Jay Bautista