Alejo Salcedo is an artist from Washington D.C., exploring the intersection of food, art, and medicine. He is a printmaker, painter, tattooer, cook, muralist, potter, and cross-genre collaborator with interests including fermentation, gardening, foraging, cooking, meditation, and nutrition. In all these pursuits, he aims to live simply and locally.
Alejo believes the undertaking of life is a creative process with endless challenges and opportunities for expression. He claims art as a lifestyle, as well as the physical byproduct of a creative act. “Everything I do outside the art, eventually becomes the art.” When the emphasis is on process, as opposed to the outcome, technique and presence during creation become the meditation.
Alejo Salcedo / Asheville, NC
Alejo’s art pays homage to culture and traditions while simultaneously destroying, and transforming them. He uses his art to demystify process, stimulate conversation, and deconstruct our disembodied hollow culture.
“I am one of the voices of curiosity, playfulness, and unapologetic authenticity. Aesthetic distraction is not my goal. I see art as a slow yet great mover and changer of human behavior.”
ART 4 AID sales are split 80% to the artist and 20% to Grassroots AID Partnership. Learn more about GAP and how they continue to provide positive impact and support throughout Western North Carolina following the devastation left behind by Hurricane Helene