Growing up in the Dominican Republic, Hampton was profoundly influenced by the intellectual pursuits of the contemporary abstract art movement in my country, the Dominican Republic. After exhibiting my work in Spain and Belgium, he arrived in Oregon in March of 2002. Since then, he has become a different artist. The focus of his work shifted to capture the idiosyncratic culture of Portland’s diverse neighborhoods; the cadence of people’s lives there, the scenes of cultural clashes, and Urban vs. Rural. And the development of images that tap into shared concepts and free expressions of anger and hope, desire, and sadness. His work is egalitarian, surrealistic, and filled with people’s mystiques. He strongly feels that an artist belongs to the place he lives, a universal evolution of feelings and juxtaposed realities that are reflected in his work and in his own life.