Congratulations to HM&C Artist Vargas-Suarez Universal on the completion of his spectacular mural project at the Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, TX.
Vargas-Suarez Universal currently lives and works between New York, Texas, and Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic in Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan). He is primarily known for large-scale murals, paintings, drawings, and sound recordings. He sources American, Russian, European, Canadian, and Japanese spaceflight programs, astronomy, and aerospace architecture to create commissioned, studio-based and public artworks for museums, galleries, private and public spaces. Vargas-Suarez has conducted post-studio research at NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA; Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico; Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, FL; Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX; Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Korolyov (Moscow), Russia; and the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. His writings have been published by Right Brain Words, New York; Edizioni Charta, Milan, Italy, and The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Vargas-Suarez Universal recently completed the site-specific mural Terra Matrix (2024), which was commissioned by the US State Department's Art in Embassies program's "Democracy Collection," US Consulate, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Vargas-Suarez Universal
Horizons Spectrum (2025)
5 carbon laser etched aluminum planes on 59 urethane and powder coated aircraft aluminum panels over steel armature on CMU wall
9.5 x 227 ft (overall)
Terminal E Departures Level Garage wall, Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, TX
City of Houston Civic Art Collection
Vargas-Suarez Universal currently lives and works between New York, Texas, and Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic in Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan). He is primarily known for large-scale murals, paintings, drawings, and sound recordings. He sources American, Russian, European, Canadian, and Japanese spaceflight programs, astronomy, and aerospace architecture to create commissioned, studio-based and public artworks for museums, galleries, private and public spaces. Vargas-Suarez has conducted post-studio research at NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA; Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico; Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, FL; Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX; Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Korolyov (Moscow), Russia; and the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. His writings have been published by Right Brain Words, New York; Edizioni Charta, Milan, Italy, and The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Vargas-Suarez Universal recently completed the site-specific mural Terra Matrix (2024), which was commissioned by the US State Department's Art in Embassies program's "Democracy Collection," US Consulate, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Vargas-Suarez Universal
Horizons Spectrum (2025)
5 carbon laser etched aluminum planes on 59 urethane and powder coated aircraft aluminum panels over steel armature on CMU wall
9.5 x 227 ft (overall)
Terminal E Departures Level Garage wall, Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, TX
City of Houston Civic Art Collection
July 29, 2025
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