Byron Gálvez
1941 — 2009 · Mexican painter, sculptor and printmaker
In memoriam
Byron Gálvez died on October 27, 2009, the day before his sixty-eighth birthday. The next day he was honored in Pachuca, in the David Ben Gurion Cultural Park — the park he designed, and the largest work of his life.
His work and his legacy are cared for by his wife and lifelong partner, Eva Beloglovsky.
Few artists have moved between styles and materials as freely as Byron Gálvez, and mastered all of them.
Lithography, oil on canvas, drawing, etching, bronze, stone, murals, stained glass, mosaic, landscape architecture: in two dimensions or three, the breadth of his work was matched only by its depth.
Over a career of more than four decades he was known first for his dreamlike drawings and abstract landscapes, then for a figurative abstraction built on the female form, which he carried from oils to bronze to the acrylographs he invented. At the end of his life he worked at the scale of the city itself.
“A Mexican Picasso.”
Work
All work
Partner, wife, keeper
Eva Beloglovsky
Art dealer, gallerist, partner and wife. For more than thirty-five years Eva shaped the life of the work alongside the man who made it — and since 2009 she has kept it alive.
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Pachuca, Hidalgo · 2001–2005
A canvas of 32,000 square meters
In Pachuca, Byron designed a cultural park whose central plaza is the largest pedestrian mural in the world.
The ParkCollecting Byron Gálvez
Collectors often ask us about Byron’s acrylographs and small sculptures — and sometimes we can help them find one. We are also glad to hear from people who own his work.
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