Germán Téllez is a Colombian-born painter based in New York City. His work explores the space between perception and imagination, tracing how our mental maps of the world fragment and shift as environments and technologies change. Through painting, he searches for ways to bring these fragments into renewed coherence, forming images that hold both clarity and uncertainty.

Trained in both photography and painting, Téllez develops his works through a layered process that moves from staged photographic sets to digital collages and, finally, to the tactile surface of oil paint. Each stage opens a different mode of transformation: the gathering of visual material, the reorganization of rhythm and form, and the eventual embodiment of those ideas in color and texture.

He allows form, color, and surface to guide the work’s direction, letting meaning emerge gradually through the act of painting. Each image becomes a way of thinking in visual terms, a process of discovery rather than illustration. His paintings invite viewers to linger in that space between perception and comprehension, where the visible world begins to reveal its underlying order.