about

Jesse Mireles is a Mexican born visual artist whose abstract, expressionistic work has earned national recognition. 

With a parallel career as an international award-winning graphic designer, he brings a distinctive synthesis of intuition, structure, and visual rigor to his fine art practice.

Raised in a home filled with Mexican folk art, Mireles was shaped by his family's cultural traditions—their symbolism, color, and emotional resonance. By age twenty, he was working professionally as a graphic artist, but abstract expressionism ultimately offered the artistic freedom he sought for his own creative voice.

Mireles' work blends abstract painting with graphic and figurative elements, often incorporating printmaking and collage. His compositions explore humanistic themes through gesture, texture, and layered mark-making. He produces hand-drawn giclée prints using archival inks on fine art papers.

He most admires German Expressionist Franz Marc, his use of color and his portrayal of the natural world. He is greatly influenced by the great Mexican muralists—Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Learning of Siqueiros' mentorship of Jackson Pollock and other American abstract artists helped Mireles trace a lineage between the Mexican master and his own abstract work. He considers himself a student of Siqueiros' experimental spirit, incorporating dripping, scraping, and layering medium into new works of art.

The natural world remains his greatest inspiration. Whether traveling through New England, Mexico, the American Southwest, or coastal Maine, he finds connections in landscapes, billowing clouds, reflections and sometimes in the faces of people that he meets. Both nature's beauty and fragility inform work that fosters reflection and deeper respect for the world we share.

Mireles has exhibited at and is represented by the Toledo Museum of Art. His work is also represented by galleries in Ohio, California, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. Since relocating to Massachusetts in 2022, he has been active in the Newburyport Art Association, the Rockport Art Association & Museum RAA&M, The New Hampshire Art Association NHAA and the Abstract Artists Group of New England.

In 2023, he received the Bank Gloucester Award for Contemporary Art at the RAA&M National Show and the D. Pratt Framer Grant for his "Expresionismo!" exhibit. His solo exhibitions include shows at the Rockport Art Museum and the NHAA Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery.

Mireles is also a guitarist, singer, and songwriter performing in English and Spanish. He is married to artist and writer Allen Mireles. They have two sons: Gabriel, a singer-songwriter and community activist in Boston, and Alexander, a visual artist and web designer in Los Angeles.