Atelier Restaurant

We install art in your home, gallery or public space. I was almost born in a photo studio. I grew up inside the Oleo Photo Studio in Mexico City, at the time it was the largest, most modern studio in Mexico. This is before color photography so we had an 11×14 studio camera and the darkroom was one of the largest rooms in the building divided into darkroom and dry retouching areas. My father, the famous Goyito was an accomplished landscape painter, turned photographer, turned photocolorist. He was the pupil of Luis Magos Anaya whose wife taught him how to color photographs with oil colors. Oleo Photo occupied the whole second floor of the Edificio San Jose at the corners of Amsterdam and Sonora streets in the Hipodromo/Condesa art deco neighborhood in Mexico. At any time there were 10 to 13 Maestros working in the studio; coloring photographs. I followed: I loved the darkroom, the mixing of hypo-sulfate and other chemicals, the smell of oil paints and the linseed oil and thinner of the coloring studio. Photography has always been part of my life; except that from the beginning, even as a child, I have the tendency to lean more for the experimental, than the formal side of the art. I studied photography with John Grady; obviously I did my hours at Oleo Photo having to turn professional, finished, work to the customers. There was one rule in the studio: Why can a mistake when one can do it right the first time. Now, I work both with film and digital processes. I believe that each is a unique tool for creation; similar, almost, but never the same. The idea of the new work continues to be the same as before. The expression of the self through a medium and to explore all the possibilities combining experimental and classical techniques. The Chicago Atelier™ is the home of the Studio Arts as practiced by Miguel. The Chicago Atelier™ encompasses the Photography studio with a complete darkroom for classical silver gelatin photographs. A Digital lab for develop