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Marcial Candido was born in Santa Tecla, La Libertad, El Salvador, and currently resides in Washington, DC. Marcial earned a BA in psychology and a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Maryland, College Park. Also, Marcial has worked closely with various artists at the Art League in Alexandria, VA. Marcial’s artwork focuses on neo-expressionist folklore, where the human condition and emotions take center stage. As a neo-expressionist artist, he seeks not to reduce his world to abstract forms but to infuse beauty and love into his depictions of human figures and animals.