El Museo del Barrio

Cut N' Mix: Contemporary Collage at El Museo del Barrio, New York, 2015

These are installation views of my work in the exhibition Cut N' Mix curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado at El Museo del Barrio. The exhibition is on view through October 17, 2015.

http://www.elmuseo.org

Century House Historical Society

Excavate, 2015 Bent Microphone stands, mic, mirrors, concrete, flake stone, grass seeds.

Recently I had the opportunity to make only my second outdoor sculpture. It's in an exhibition titled "Excavate" at the Century House Historical Society in Rosendale, New York. I decided to title the piece after the show since it's made as a site specific piece for the location. I'm very happy with the way the piece turned out. It's lead me to have ideas for future pieces. Century house is part of the Old Jane Mine on the Snyder Estate. It's an old mine that produced most of the cement in New York such as the Brooklyn Bridge and Statue of Liberty. The show will be up for about 3 months.

Activate Market Street

Installation Views : Activate Market Street, Newark, NJ

I recently had the chance to install work at 85 Market Street in Newark for a project titled, "Activate Market Street".  Organized by Gallery Aferro and curated by artist Jo-El Lopez. This exhibition gave me the opportunity to bring together various work under one theme.

Studio Work

Hard-Edge Painting #151, 2015 Latex and spray enamel on canvas over wood panel.

New work in the studio. Working on a series of black and white pieces all 40" x 30". Decided to focus on black and white. I was feeling that color was getting in the way and making things too busy. Going back to basics allows me the opportunity to work out other elements of the paintings. Such as the interaction between the ground, transparent, and opaque layers of paint. 

Starting with a white ground, I tape off a 1" boarder which I then roll with solid color. After that I apply a layer of white and spray paint the tag twice. Rotating the painting so that each tag occupies one half of the painting. I sand the entire area with a rotatory sander and build up the surface with transparent and opaque areas of paint. 

This part of the process is intuitive. In the past I've used photoshop to figure things out but for this work I just use a piece of white board to block out what I'm seeing so that I can decide white parts of the tag I'd like to keep. The last part is adding the 1/4 inch black boarder. So far I've made three paintings and will start another 40" x 30 and a slightly larger piece that measures 48" x 38". 

Art Basel Miami Beach

Y.ES Collect Contemporary El Salvador Book, 2014

Presented as part of Art Basel Miami's "Conversations" series. Moderated by Sam Keller with Mario Cader-Frech, Simon Vega, Tom Healy and Claire Breukel. December 5th, 4-5pm. Honored to have work in this book along with a host of other amazing Salvadoran artists!

Cover Art: Ronald Moran

ARTnews Magazine

ARTnews, December 1999 Issue.

While organizing my files the other day I came across an old article in ARTnews Magazine featuring the painter David Reed. I was one of his studio assistants back then, along with artists, Tony Shore, Eddie Chu and Emily. Dean Daderko, now curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston was his office assistant as was artist Andrea Geyer.

I enjoyed those day working in his studio. It gave me a good perspective on the practical aspects of art making and a realistic portrayal of being an artist. How time flies by! The ARTnews article includes a picture of David Reed in his studio with me in the background.

Hanson Fitness SoHo

Hard-Edge Painting #143 @ Hanson Fitness, SoHo.

This past week I installed this work, along with two smaller paintings, at Hanson Fitness in SoHo. Harry Hanson the name behind Hanson Fitness owns a series of upscale fitness training studios in NYC with a host of celebrity and high-profile clientele. He's an enthusiastic supporter of my work and the visual arts in general so I'm excited to have work on view at his personal training studio. It was great talking to him about my working process and his personal experience with art and contemporary artists like Sean Scully. I always appreciate someone passionate about art.

Hanson Fitness: http://www.hansonfitness.com/Home_Page.html 

MARTE Contemporary

Exhibition "10" at MARTE Contemporary (Museo de Arte de El Salvador), 2014

Photo's courtesy of Walterio Iraheta.

These are some installation images of my piece at MARTE Contemporary. It's documentation of my ongoing site specific intervention shown at Hionas Gallery from 2012. I wish I could have done the actual piece in El Salvador but acquiring a low rider is a lot more difficult. It's a great exhibition organized by Chief curator Claire Breukel, programs manager Lucas Arevalo, with support from Mario Cader-Frech. 

The exhibition includes work by: Ronald Morán, Simón Vega, Walterio Iraheta, Mayra Barraza, Irvin Morazan, Danny Zavaleta, Luis Paredes, Rafael Díaz, Ernesto Bautista, "Crack" Rodriguez, Mauricio Kabistán, Beatriz Cortez, Patricia Domínguez, Mauricio Esquivel, Eduardo Navas, Natalia Dominguez, Alexia Mirando, Abigail Reyes, and Melissa Guevara.

Link to MARTE C - https://martecontemporary.squarespace.com/new-page/

Paintings 2014

Hard-Edge Painting #2018

Hard-Edge Painting #2016

Two recent paintings made for the NADA Art Fair in New York this past year. I edited them out from the installation but they are favorites of mine.

MARTE Contemporary

Exhibition"10" at MARTE Contemporary, El Salvador.

I'm participating in the exhibition "10" at The Art Museum of El Salvador (MARTE). The show opens Sept 1 and will be on view through October 12, 2014. Included are documentation images of my ongoing lowrider piece "Parked in An Exaggerated Manner; East Coast". I wish I could have done the actual car intervention there but that's difficult to do in a place like El Salvador. 

NADA Art Fair

Hard-Edge Painting #1414

Untitled I - IV

Hard-Edge Painting #1420

Hard-Edge Painting #1415

Hard-Edge Painting #1412

Hard-Edge Painting #1419

NADA Art Fair, New York, 2014

Pieces on view at the NADA Art Fair, courtesy of Hionas Gallery, Booth #710

NADA Art Fair

Installation Views: NADA Art Fair, New York, 2014

Here are installation views of my new work currently at the NADA Art Fair, Hionas Gallery booth #710. May 9-11th.

http://www.newartdealers.org/Fairs/2014/NewYork

Dallas Art Fair 2014

Dallas Art Fair, April 10 - 13, 2014

This is the newest hard-edge painting #147 also at the Dallas Art Fair.

Dallas Art Fair - http://dallasartfair.com/

Dallas Art Fair 2014

Dallas Art Fair, April 10 - 13, 2014

My hard-edge painting #146 on view at the Dallas Art Fair courtesy of Hionas Gallery. In the process of making similar new work for the NADA Art Fair opening next month. Excited!

Dallas Art Fair - http://dallasartfair.com/