In exuberant works reminiscent of but not nostalgic for folk paintings, Ocampo's blending of high and low culture, academic and popular, the sacred and secular, image and text supercharge canvases with a blatant disregard for stylistic and idomatic consistency.

Gutsy, bold and filled to the brim with socio-political critique and a perverse take on religious themes, Ocampo has perfected the art of the alchemist — "transforming horror into exquisite beauty, history into art, purgatory into salvation."