Roberto Gil De Montes, born in 1950 in Guadalajara, Mexico, is a contemporary painter known for his unique figurative works. After receiving both his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, where the artist moved at the age of thirteen, Gil De Montes became involved in the Chicano arts movement. Much of the artist’s work explores his Mexican origins and aspects of Mexican popular culture. Formally speaking, he often borrows from styles present in various kinds of Catholic folk art, such as reblatos and ex-voto paintings. Gil De Montes also finds inspiration in his life in the Los Angeles neighborhood Echo Park, abstract themes like the unexpected and disconnection, and in stories of migration and displacement. In May 2021, the artist was celebrated with a solo show at the Park View/Paul Soto gallery in Los Angeles entitled Eight Works. He has also exhibited works at the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Currently, Gil De Montes resides in Los Angeles, where he works as a professor of art at the University of California Los Angeles.

Like many of his paintings, The Receptor depicts a state of uncertainty and disembodiment. The central figure, a man wearing a suit jacket and what appears to be the head of a deer, stands perfectly still as the world arounds him seems to burn. Made up of a stormy sky, barren trees, and a pool of fire, the landscape that he stands in the center of is marked by chaos. The pandemonium that exists on the canvas extends out into the frame, which the artist carved and painted with images of snakes, fire, and combat. Juxtaposed with the haunting calmness of the man at its center, this scene is certainly unsettling. As a result, The Receptor is both disorienting and captivating.

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