Account sign in
2025
Oil on canvas
108 x 103 cm | 42.5 x 40.1 in.
USD 2,600
From Jesus Mejia’s “Dreamland” series.
Mejia is a prominent figure in Costa Rican contemporary art, known for his exploration of social issues through his bold figurative paintings. His practice, influenced by Baroque tenebrism and Catholic symbolism, focuses on themes of faith, humanity and personal history.
In this Dreamland series, Mejia presents a luminous shift into the subconscious, trading realism for sensory and symbolic landscapes shaped by dreams, childhood memory, and emotional release.
In “Morfeo y sus estrellas” (Morpheus and His Stars), Mejia drapes the figure in folds of satin and starlight, suspended in the quietude of sleep. The figure’s face, softly illuminated, resists narrative and instead settles into the sensation of being weightless, protected, and unknowable.
Named after the Greek god of dreams, the work casts slumber as a form of escape and resistance, where night becomes a personal cosmos. Mejia’s fluid and precise brushwork blurs what is fabric and what is galaxy, making no distinction between the physical and the imagined. At first glance, this Morpheus and his stars painting is a portrait of somebody sleeping, but this painting is also a projection of sleep itself as a state of luminous, private expansion.
Shipping: This artwork will be rolled for shipment.
Black, Brown, Grey
USD 2,000 – 5,000
large
2011 Watercolour on paper 55.5 x 78 cm | 21.8 x 30.7 in.
2022 Smoke on canvas 150 x 120 cm | 59.1 x 47.2 in.
2023 Smoke and oil on canvas 180 x 150 cm | 70.9 x 59.1 in.
2011 Watercolour on paper 78 x 55.5 cm. | 30.7 x 21.9 in.
2018 Oil on fabric 76.5 x 107 cm | 30.1 x 42.1 in.
2018 Oil on fabric 74 x 107 cm | 29.1 x 42.1 in.
2021 Oil on fabric 152 x 100 cm | 59.8 x 39.3 in.
2022 Smoke and oil on canvas 120 x 120 cm | 47.2 x 47.2 in.
2018 Oil on fabric 69 x 99 cm | 27.2 x 39 in.
2011 Watercolour on paper 78 x 55.5 cm | 30.7 x 21.9 in.
2022 Oil on fabric 72.5 x 101.5 cm | 28.5 x 39.9 in.
2021 Oil on fabric 80.5 x 69.5 cm | 31.7 x 27.4 in.
2023 Smoke on canvas 100 x 100 cm | 39.4 x 39.4 in.
2019 Smoke and oil on canvas 180 x 150 cm | 70.9 x 59.1 in.
2022 Oil on fabric, 109 x 122 cm | 42.9 x 48 in.
2022 Charcoal on paper 85 x 107 cm | 33.5 x 42 in.
USD 900
2022 Oil on canvas 65 x 85 cm | 25.6 x 33.5 in.
USD 2,500
2023 Oil on canvas 203 x 87 cm | 80 x 34.3 in.
USD 5,000
2023 Oil on canvas 78 x 57 cm | 30.7 x 22.4 in.
USD 1,300
2022 Charcoal on paper 160 x 107 cm | 63 x 42.1 in.
USD 1,500
2023 Oil on canvas 134 x 45 cm | 53.8 x 17.1 in.
USD 1,150
2023 Oil on canvas 223 x 134 cm | 87.8 x 52.8 in.
