ABOUT CHANGE in Latin America and the Caribean
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JULIO VALDEZ Dominican Republic, Born 1969 www.juliovaldez.com silkaquatint@yahoo.com
Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Julio Valdez studied fine arts illustration at the Altos de Chavón School of Design in La Romana (Dominican Republic), affiliated with Parsons The New School for Design in New York, United States. He also studied printmaking with Robert Blackburn and Kathy Caraccio in New York City. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo shows, including Water Painting (June Kelly Gallery, New York, 2007), Echando Raices (Growing Roots, Gallería Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2002), and Julio Valdez: Transpositions (Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, California, 1998). He has also participated in several group shows such as Artist in the Marketplace, (Bronx Museum of Fine Arts, New York, 1994; Once Artistas de la Facultad [Eleven Artists from the School of Design], La Romana, Dominican Republic,
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ADÁN VALLECILLO Cayo Levantado III, 2009 Oil on linen 147 x 228 cm 58 x 90 in
1993), and Nuevos Valores del Arte Latinoamericano [New Stars in Latin American Art Brasilia, Brazil, 1980], His work is represented in the collections of El Museo del Barrio, in New York City, in the Museum of Contemporary Art of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the Eduardo León Jimenes Cultural Center, in Santiago, Dominican Republic. He currently lives and works in New York City. Valdez has a lengthy trajectory as an artist; his current work is inspired by the creation of a “sense of time not yet defined.” Working with the theme of water along the Caribbean landscape from the vantage point of a Dominican, he suggests that this scenic paradise presents a dichotomy between the freedom of the tourist and the “natural prison” of the land for its natives. Water thus becomes a realm of uncertainty. | A.O.
Autopoiesis / Self-Creation, 2008 Installation Variable dimensions
Adán Vallecillo graduated in sociology from the National Autonomous University of Honduras in 2010. He studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Tegucigalpa (1995) and the School of Visual Arts of San Juan, Puerto Rico (2000), where he was awarded a scholarship in 2002 and was appointed as artist in residence in 2007. Vallecillo’s works works have been shown in solo exhibits in Honduras and Belize, and in many collective exhibitions, among them the Sixth Biennial of El Museo del Barrio, New York (2011); the Venice Biennial (2011); the Pontevedra Biennial, España (2010); the First International Caribbean Triennial, Dominican Republic (2010); the Biennial of Visual Arts of Honduras (2010, 2008, 2006); the Tenth Havana Biennial (2009); the Central American Isthmus Visual Arts Biennial (Nicaragua, 2010; Honduras, 2008; El Salvador, 2006; Nicaragua, 2002); the Seventh International Biennial of Painting in Cuenca, Ecuador (2001), and the Fifth Caribbean Biennial, Santo Domingo (2001). Vallecillo considers art as an instrument of knowledge. He is interested in studying the emotional and aesthetic charge that we ascribe to
Honduras, Born 1977 antonioadanster@gmail.com
objects, as he works to enhance symbolically their relations of production, circulation and consumption. Several of his works are based on variations or fusions that seek to create ambiguities and hybridizations by means of irony and humor. This allows him to re-examine the value and implications of the rational control of freedom, needs, and instinctual drives. Vallecillo’s works are part of the permanent collections of Daros Latinamerica, Zurich; the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, New York-Caracas; the Contemporary Museum of Art and Design (MADC) and the TEOR/éTica Foundation, Costa Rica; the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California; the Image Art Factory Foundation, Belize City; the Honduran Institute of Inter American Culture, Tegucigalpa; Saxo Bank, Denmark; as well as many private collections.| V.G.D.
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