My work can be described as meditations on a subject with heavy emphasis on color and texture that help me to express the beauty of a form.
Mostly a painter for the greater part of my life, I love using various mediums and techniques to achieve the effects that resemble my perception of events, settings and particular details that have caught my attention throughout the day.
Most of my work relies heavily on memory because many of my subjects appear while I'm in transit, so I'll work from quick sketches with notes or snapshots to be used later on with various mediums that are available to me or that work best for the idea.
Printing from clay is a printing process that I began developing in 2003, and went public with my first print “Natural Connection”, submitted for and now part of the permanent collection of the peace poster project, “Yo! What Happened To Peace” in California in 2004.
Another endeavor that I've been passionate about since 2010 is a project that involves designing and painting unique tote bags; I call this project My Paper Bag Company. These bags are made from recycled strips of canvas-backed, acid free paper used in a process called linen backing; a conservation method that is commonly used in the preservation of paper-- for example, vintage posters.
This project is important to me because it employs my art to be fully functional. I've always admired and found fascinating the myriad of designs that are developed into functional works of art such as: tools, timepieces, automobiles and clothing to name a few. Although a number of what I mentioned also serves as status symbols to some, I love the fact that these designs fulfill the basic requirements of it's end use and that is what I've always aspired to with my art work. My Paper Bag Company allows me to move into that direction and explore more creative possibilities- be it a broader range of matierials used, combining methods that I've used in the past, designs and even collaborations with other artists.
My aim is to project the respect and wonder that each subject impresses on me. It's the uncertainties that allow for limitless potential of growth and understanding, and by accepting that this notion exists, opens the possibility of constantly finding something new and beautiful about the things that we come in contact with daily including that which is most important to us.
2012 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, ArtExpo New York, Pier 92, March 22-25
2010 ROMANIA, "INTER-ART" Intercontinental Biennial of Small Graphics AUID/Romania 3rd Ed, September 24 - 26
2010 BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, Kingdom's Official Grand Opening Event, held at Kingdom, BK, May 13
2009 BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, WILLIAMSBURG INDIE DESIGNER SOIREE V2.0, held at The Arsenal, September 26
2009 BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, BROOKLYN ROYALTY Spring 2010 Presentation, selection of bags shown from MyPaperBagCo. in the show held at The Arsenal, 153 Roebling St, St. 4B, Williamsburg, September 9
2009 BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, SQUISH ART MARKET at The Arsenal, August 30
2009 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TOAST (TriBeCa Open Studio Tour), MyPaperBagCo. introduced at Philip Williams Posters, April 24-27
2011 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, CHURCH STREET SCHOOL for MUSIC and ART, My Paper Bag Company Collaboration, May 20
2003 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, WALKER SOUND STAGE, Benefit for Goussy for a Cultural Exchange to Cuba, July 20
2003 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE 2001 UNITED KINGDOM, CIMS, Cims Limited, Work Selected and Published for International Promotional Package, January 4
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2011 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Rooftop Exposition presenting ONE CALENDAR YEAR:2010, June 5
2002 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Philip Williams Gallery, October 31-November 15
2000 HELSINKI, FINLAND, Art Galaxy Gallery, November 14-December 10
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2005- 2006 TURKEY, SANAT GALERISI, September 23, 2005- October 23, 2006
2005 HAMEENLINNA, FINLAND, ART GALLERY RIPUSTUS, Make Friends- Not War, November 27- December 30
2005 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, ART for AIDS silent auction to benefit Housing Works; presented by UBS, October 26
2004 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, THE FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION, On-line Auction, November
2004 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, ANGEL ORENSANZ FOUNDATION, July 20
2004 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, NOHO NY, Artwalk, January 20-January 25
2004 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TRANSPORT GALLERY, Yo! What Happened to Peace, anti-war poster show (This is an expanded version of a show by the same name in Tokyo in May 2003, originally sponsored by Cross World Communications International (CWC), January 9
2003 NEW YORK, NEW YORK,METROPOLITAN PAVILION, Starving Artists Ball, August 21
2003 NEW YORK, NEW YORK,FUSIONARTS MUSEUM, East Village and Lower East Side Artists 2003- An Exhibit, July 31- August 27
2003 LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK, 38NINE STUDIOS, March 28- April 11
2002 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, PHILIP WILLIAMS GALLERY, Visionary Art In America: Group Exhibition, January 7-February 11
2000 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, THE OPEN CENTER at Spring Street, Nosotros Los Latinos Presents, Open Worlds 2000-International Art Show, October 21
2000 ROSEMONT, NEW JERSEY, THE CAFE, under the auspices of Riverbank Arts, Stockton, New Jersey, June
1999 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, THE PUCK BUILDING, Coalition for the Homeless, Presented the Fifth Annual Artwalk NY, Artwork selected and sold at auction, November 13
1999 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, GALERIA CHARAS/EL BOHIO, Artists of the World, Toward the Next Millenium II., October 3-November 6
1999 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, GALERIA CHARAS/EL BOHIO, Toward the Next Millenium., June 5-18
1998 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, Independent Film and Video Festival, September 18
1997-1998 GULFPORT, FLORIDA, POSITIVE EXPRESSIONS GALLERY: Many Expressions of Love, February 6, 1998,
2000-2004, Riverbank Arts, 19 Bridge Street, Stockton, New Jersey
2000, Reza Namazi Real Estate Corporation, 347 West Broadway, SoHo, New York, New York
1997-1998, POSITIVE EXPRESSIONS GALLERY, Gulfport, Florida
2001 UNITED KINGDOM, Wexham, Slough, CIMS, Cims Limited, January 4
Desde temprano, dibujando y la pintura siempre ha sido una parte de mí. Comenzar con mi madre como un tiempo pasado que me entretendría por muchas horas, el proceso creador se convertió en una necesidad para mi vida como aire, el agua, el alimento y cada las necesidades para mantener la vida.
Durante los últimos diez años yo he tomado parte en numerosos exposiciones grupo y solas en y alrededor de Nueva York. Mis intereses para trabajar con todas clases de medios me ha dirigido a explorar el mundo de impresión; utilizando diseños que he esculpido en platos hechos de arcilla y mano que coloran cada impresión. (más en Impresiones de Arcilla)
¡La impresión de la arcilla es un proceso de impresión que empecé desarrollar en 2003, y fui el público con mi primera impresión "Conexión Natural", sometido para y ahora parte de la permanente colección del proyecto de cartel de paz, "Yo! Qué Sucedió A Paz" en California en 2004.
Describo mi trabajo como meditaciones en una persona, la estructura o se opongo, para que el foco sea puramente en el asunto en mano y la historia que rodean la imagen central es para el espectador de crear. La mayor parte de mi trabajo confía mucho en memoria porque muchos de mis sujetos parece mientras soy en tránsito, así que trabajaré de dibujos rápidos con notas para ser utilizado más tarde con varios medios que están disponibles a mí o a ese trabajo mejor para la idea.
SPECIAL SHOWINGS and PRESENTATIONS
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Belief Without Boundaries, January 2 ,
Hope and Glory, presented at the Falk Theater, Tampa, Florida, January,
A Wish, A Hope and a Cry presented at Eckerd College,
Tampa, Florida, November 9, 1997
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
PUBLIC COLLECTION
BIOGRAFIA ARRIBA
