Visual artist/Intellectual/
Interdisciplinarian/Exploratory/
Curious/Energertic
My work inhabits a baroque universe of different worlds of aesthetics planes. Through my art works, I become a storyteller. My visual narratives generate energy, alluding to the emotional physicality of art making; and there is the urgency of a concept to keep alive. The physical and emotional experience of drawing is essential to my art making process. Through my drawings, I create beauty with lines. The process of drawing gives rise to visual codes which lead me to spontaneous compositions and intriguing meanings at once. I work in drawing, painting, installations, artists’ books, and video animation. Through these different media, I create contemporary allegories of history, colonization, and politics.
My fascination with the social human experience since the “discovery” of America and its multifarious results is an endless source of inspiration and an essential part of my discourse. This fascination has led me to such themes as the causes and consequences of migration, the mestizo and barroquism as consequences of colonization, the inversion of traditional beliefs of salvation, and the questioning of religious and social uses of the notion of paradise. I create my allegorical narratives by appropriating and transforming symbols and objects that have included life jackets, inner tubes, suitcases, mattresses, tents, umbrellas, religious icons, and newspapers clippings.
It is always wonderfully complex to go back to Altos de Chavon.
It makes me happy and sad. It makes me tired and excited all at once!! overwhelming!!
It is written in stone, my love for the school and my desire to contribute to it's legacy.
This time, I went to impart a fashion illustration drawing class.
Drawing is an essential skill in the language of art and design. Part of my goal is to guide my student toward the magic of mark making, and the creation of their own visual codes. In the case of fashion drawing, the idea is to represent the design and the spirit of it. My biggest reward is to witness my student's development, especially when I see them searching to find the balance between the concept, the emotions, and the physicality of drawing.
Dear all,
The New Wave/La Nueva Ola
Since 2005, The Latino Art Now! Conference has become a important forum for artists, art professionals, educators, scholars, critics, collectors, and art dealers. Through dialogue in panels, and the presentation of academic scholarship, the conference examines the contemporary state of Latino art in the United States and the world. We had the opportunity of presenting The Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA at the conference!! It was a great opportunity and wonderful experience!!! to share, receive feedback from people we highly respect, to mingle with artists friends. We are so grateful!! in the photos Eduardo Diaz (Smithsonian Latino Center), E. Carmen Ramos (Smithsonian Latino Center), Pepe Coronado (Coronado Studios), Iliana Emilia(artist), myself, Freddy (artist), and Fernando Salicruz (Taller Boricua)
A little movie demonstrating the installation in action. This is exactly what I envisioned a piece moving, blending with the landscape but still provocative to the site. Oh..Can you hear the sounds of nature?? I just enjoy that so much!