Guillermo D. Tapia is a self taught painter currently based in Fort Worth, TX. Primarily working in portraiture, his paintings utilize numerous content ranging from American iconography and populism to matters of personal memories, friendships and experiences. Tapia's work provokes ideas of popular American culture while super imposing his own vision that heightens friends, family and his own memories into similar realms of existence. His skillful paintings bring to light the questions, What is reality? What is memory? Tapia investigates these questions with fractured representations that apply focus on the more important aspects of the paintings; people.

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Guillermo has taken interest in various disciplines since debuting his work in 2014. Graphic design and photography have played a fundamental role in his DIY approach at self promotion. These tools have aided in marketing not just his own work, but also the community projects that have established him in his city.

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Commercial art for small businesses and photography have become a popular service in his growing portfolio. Colorful murals and hand painted sign projects painted by Tapia can be found around Fort Worth.