Creator & Founder of Cardio Art

About the Artist

In 1996, José was employed by Albany Medical Center as a Monitor Technician where he began learning cardiac relatedissues and the rhythms of the heart. While at work one day several years later, a patient whose rhythms became critical inspired Jose to create a drawing using electro-cardiographic rhythms for the lines. His first creation brought some enthusiastic comments from his co-workers; it was a heart with a series of heads each one smaller than the other in a sequential manner indicating full life to a slow death this being the name of the picture. This drawing quickly became a favorite and earned it's place on T-shirts that are now available to the public.

Those lines have become his trademark.

Artistic painting had been a long-desired dream for José.

The Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame and the Heart Center of Cleveland Clinic both served as his inspiration in his current theme of rhythmic guitars.

Work History

Jose was featured by the Albany Times Union in an article for his dedication to community service.

Invocation for Angelo Del Toro Puerto Rican/Hispanic Youth Leadership Institute Mock Assembly, March 1997

Letter from Donald G. Dunn, First Deputy Secretary to the Governer of NY in thanks and congratulations for service to the community and for assistance in the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Observance.