Mauricio Masáre’s English tutors were James Hetfield, Chris Cornell and Jerry Cantrell. As a kid in the coffee-growing town of Pereira, Colombia, the budding artist saw music — specifically American metal and grunge — as a window to the globe. Today, the Metallica, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains singers that inspired him as a teen are also frequent subjects of his paintings, which layer lines — often in three-dimensional fashion — to form an image. The post Erode the Dream puts their nightmares on neon vinyl appeared first on Charleston City Paper.