Art Concept Alternative, ACA, is an International visual arts project housed at Raw Space in Vero Beach, Florida. Director, Silvia Medina - founder member of the Havana Biennial, created the project in 2015; its mission focused on connecting artists at different stages of their careers with professionals and art lovers throughout the USA and at international exhibitions and art fairs. ACA also provides an on-going platform of exhibits, artist-in-residence programs, workshops, and events that have made a strong impact in the community; strengthening the dialogue between artists and American audiences. The gallery represents a diverse selection of multigenerational creatives working across painting, photography, sculpture, installation and experimental works; gaining global recognition for its contribution to the contemporary art discourse and its continued collaboration with cultural institutions and museums in the U.S. (New York), Spain, Italy, and Latin America (Argentina, Cuba). Art Concept Alternative believes in the power of art to inspire and transform lives. The gallery is pleased to present the 2019 Edition of its Artist Catalog; a broad range of original in concept and varied in techniques artistic styles. Its outstanding art collection is available to art lovers and collectors. For information contact: ACA, Art Concept Alternative Silvia Medina, CEO 772-410-9126 Niurka Barroso, Executive Director 772-584-5003 info@artconceptalternative.org
Represented Artists Niurka Barroso Stella Battaglia Valentina Bilbao Tutua Boshell Jorge Cavelier Ileana Collazo Pepa Curriu Lucia Gomez Daniela Mejia Eliel Perez Antonio Pons Consuegra Romero Pilar Sagarra C. P.Vidal Evelyn Walg Alfonso Martin Yebra Lucia Zalbidea
Niurka Barroso Cuba / Canada “Photography has helped me to observe and try to understand the world, my time, and me. Although my approach to the medium has been very versatile, active, and plural, I consider myself essentially a documentary photographer. I have produced several photographic essays dealing with humanitarian conflicts, and explore topics about identity, displacement, diversity and marginality in Cuba, Spain, Canada, and the United States. Needing to express my feelings and thoughts through Photography, I began to use the body as a territory of symbolic expression in 2005. My personal and intimate history is related to concepts of identity, memory, and time that transcend the limits of my personal realms.�
“Destiny has two ways”
“Domestic Lan-Scape”
”I am what I will be”
“The Unsung Song”
“Uprootedness”
Stella Battaglia Italy “My work reflects on the relationship between vision and object, between the two dimensions of the image and the three dimensions of sculpture; which has led to the creation of works in a wide range of materials - traditional and otherwise - including video installations. The image is the starting point for a rhythmic and dynamic development of the form, whereas movement is the fundamental element which resonates with that of the observer.�
“Elisa” | Bronze |130 cm h
“Fra-Ma-Pi, Fratelli” | Scenography sculpture with video projection | Plaster busts | 95 x 75 x 150 cm
“Moonlight” | Bronze | 130 cm h
“Il Muretto” Anamorphic sculpture | Resin | 27 x 27 x 27 cm – 280 x 250 x 270 cm
“La Ronde”| Anamorphic sculpture | Bronze/Resin 130 cm h
Valentina Bilbao Venezuela/USA “My paintings carry a message of love, energy, bliss, and passion. My artistic process is reflected in my artwork through music. Music becomes my air. Music is my energy, and I capture that energy in my work. I feel the music inside of me. I transform the music using a subjective process. I decode the music and transform it in color; and that is to say I paint the music, bringing it from the abstract to the concrete, enabling it to be visual and tangible.�
“Journey of Colors” | Acrylic on Canvas | 68x68 inches
“Kaleidoscope” | Acrylic on Canvas 72x72 inches
“More than Love” | Acrylic on Canvas | 65x65 inches
“Music of Life” | Acrylic on Canvas| 50x72 inches
“Heart” | Acrylic on Canvas | 50x72 inches
Tutua Boshell Colombia / US “The perception of light is the inspiration of my paintings. I create “allover” surfaces of modulations of color applied on the canvas in thick impasto with a float. Unpremeditated swings of the wrist move the “polyphonic” color paint applied in big, bold broad slabs to create unpredictable effects of color contrast and formlessness interaction of waves.”
“Lava” | Mixed media & acrylic on wood | 30 x 30 cm
“Machu Picchu” | Acrylic on canvas | 40 x 40 in
“Muros / Walls” | Acrylic on canvas | 40 x 40 in
“Rostro de tiempo y agua / Face of time and water” | Acrylic & collage on wood | 30 x 30 cm
“Sand & Sea / Constellations” | Mixed media on canvas | 20 x 20 in
Jorge Cavelier Colombia / USA “At the age of 14, I was bewildered by the magical process of transforming reality by combining lines-colors in a flat surface. I use the Italian old master techniques for preparing the canvas, and select the best kinds of oils suited for the painting. My landscapes are passages of entry to contemplative states; ethereal realms that take the spectator back to all the spaces traveled by humanity throughout time.�
“Bosque de Oro Andes / Andes Gold Forest” | Mixed media on wood | 20 x 20 in
“Memorias de origen rojo 1 / Memories of Red origin 1� | Watercolor and China ink on paper | 4.5 x 9 in
“Memorias de origen XIII” | “Memories of Origin XIII” “Watercolor on paper | 66 x 51 cm
“Rio amarillo & Rio naranja / Yellow river & Orange river” | Oil on canvas | 73 x 223 cm
“Tropic” | Oil on canvas | 50 x 72 in
Ileana Collazo Cuba/USA “I take photographs - sometimes of all the obvious things that we all see, and others of things we tend to overlook - like items tossed roadside, a section of what I initially see in the frame... - then, I digitally mix and match the images to create the finished work. When I paint, I allow colors, shapes, and movement to guide me to express the language that floats inside my brain. Some artists stick to one subject, but I find life to be too rich in content for me to do that; that said, I invite you to explore the full scope of my subject matter. I learned all I needed to about creating art as a young girl in my grandmother's garden - where I sat doing what as an adult I call meditating. That quiet spot became my temple. Many years passed before I began to birth the creations conceived in my early daydreams. I started to write fiction and poetry, and then my mind exploded into a galaxy of colors, shapes, and movement as I began to paint on a variety of surfaces, digitally, and then added photography and digital visual art to my artistic spectrum. My art is representative of the twists and turns we take in the course of our daily lives, and of the awe-inspiring beauty that surrounds us. My work is my gift to the world, and to everyone who falls in love with it. I was born in Cuba, and have lived in Spain, New York, Vermont, and Massachusetts. I now reside in Miami, Florida with my artist husband Miguel Collazo, four dogs, and cats in the yard.�
“Alternate Landscapes 11 | Alternate Landscapes Series | Digital Art
“Caught in the Matrix” | Human Woman: The Female Identity, Who We Are Series | Digital Art
“Galactic Collision” | Light Tunnels Series | Digital Art
“Red Tide 2“ | Abstracts Series | Digital Art
“Single Bloom in a Crystal Vase” | Flower Ghosts Series | Digital Art
Pepa Curriu Spain "Life, perceptions, and my thoughts are in my paintings. They are the most genuine means of expression as far as I can remember. I often find it difficult to express the idea behind an artwork; perhaps because it is, in itself, the idea, the abstract concept that created the mind and I cannot express this if it is not through color, composition, light ... in short, painting is the adventure and passion of my life."
“Landscape with boat” | Acrylic on cotton | 54 cm x 51 cm
“Landscape (Triptych)” | Acrylic on wood | 110 cm x 240 cm
“Landscape” | Acrylic on canvas | 92 cm x 65 cm
“Untitled” | Mixed media on paper | 40.5 cm x 30.5 cm
“Village” | Mixed media on wood | 87 x 63.50 cm
Lucia Gomez Colombia / US “My life-changing experiences are the driving force behind my artistic work. I express my innermost feelings and thoughts with metaphors: geometric forms and archetypal symbols illuminate my reflection. Forms flow spontaneously and everything emerges as life itself without arrangement; giving way to labyrinth-caverns, insight passages of time, and unknown imagined spaces that I compare to inner maps. Archetypes are magical components of my work that continuously open unlimited possibilities of expression. While releasing my emotions, I ask the viewers to relate personally to each painting and find their own interpretations, impressions, and conclusions.â€?
“City Memoirs 443” | Oil mixed media on Canvas | 44 x 44 in
“City Memoirs 445” | Oil mixed media on Canvas | 44 x 44 in
Elemental Fragments Series | Untitled No. 56 | 2 x20 in
Enigma Series No. 21 & No. 23 | Ink on Paper| 8 x 8 in.
“Terra Incognita 45” | Oil on Canvas | 44 x 44 in
Daniela Mejia Colombia “In my oeuvre, I constantly aim to portray the memories and multiple sensations nature offers me. The image comes to a standstill in the canvas, defying the passage of time, avoiding and becoming immune to the persistent threats against nature.�
“Fiel Reflejo” | Oil on Canvas
“Fiel Reflejo” | Oil on Canvas
“Reflejos en el Rio” |Oil on Canvas
“Travesia” | Oil on Canvas
“Van, Vienen, Van” | Oil on Canvas
Eliel Pérez Colón Puerto Rico “I am inspired by my tropical surroundings, daily experiences, and the motivation to send a message with each artwork that I create. Strong primary colors are my preferred basis, so that the receptor easily distinguishes contrast and color fusions; allowing me to create a unique, daring color palette. Different large shapes are always in my artwork due me enjoying exaggerating in art the true world that we see.”
“Pleasant Navigation” | Acrylic on Canvas | 49.5 x 84 in
“Transformation”| Acrylic on Canvas | 40.5 x 28.5 in
“Transcendental Femininity� | Mixed media | 71.5 x 49 in
Veleros Series | Acrylic on paper | 16 x 20 in
“Vende-se” | Acrylic on canvas | 49.5 x 48 in
Antonio Pons Spain “My works are mainly focused on the three dimensional field; in, both, figures of round shapes - as in reliefs. I follow a creative freedom that allows me to absorb different aspects of reality. In my works, I try to reflect my commitment to culture and the problems of the society in which we live.�
“Looking Without Seeing III”
“Waves I”
“Waves IV”
“Waves IX”
Wreckage�
Consuegra Romero Spain “I love art. Feeling drawing is feeling the soul of art. Today, the investigation with my artistic commitment is focused in being sincere with me and with the world we live in; seeking the truth and the soul of drawing to strip it of superficiality, lies, and blinded mediocrity in which we are buried. Furthermore, I'm interested in exploring the ball pen’s technique to ray, blur, dirty, draw and paint, always forgetting that I have a ball pen in my hand.”
“Congregation 6” | Ballpoint pen drawing | 26 x 28 cm
“Congregation 9” | Ballpoint pen drawing | 26 x 28 cm
“Congregation 11” | Ballpoint pen drawing | 26 x 28 cm
“Light on” | Triptych | Ballpoint pen drawing | 91.5 x 91.5 cm each
“We are 1” | Ballpoint pen drawing | 99.7 x 19.7 cm\
Pilar Sagarra Spain “My work is about the search and recognition of myself through others. Color prevails in a voluntary act of recreating reality, everyday life, and my personal experiences; inviting the viewer to (re) discover in every scene of his daily life, of the sublime.�
“The sea as a reflection of the soul II / El mar como reflejo del alma II” | Mixed media | Acrylic on Methacrylate | 81x101 cm
“Between the two / Entre si” | Mixed media | Acrylic on Methacrylate | 101 x 101 cm
“Experiences Singapore” | Mixed media | Acrylic on Methacrylate | 71x 89 cm
“Strength and valor / Fuerza y valor II” | Mixed media | Acrylic on Methacrylate | 110 x 110 cm
“About desire and dream / Sobre el deseo y el sueño” | Mixed media | Acrylic on Methacrylate | 71x 89 cm
C.P. Vidal Cuba C.P. Vidal’s art is born from a resolve to revolutionize traditional genres and explore new mediums, rejecting decadent discourse in favor of poetical symbolism as universal language, display off-the shelf sculptural objects by combining ancestral painting techniques and experimental works of art to create a new environment for them, and re-inventing a new enlightened socio-cultural landscape of the world. His art walks through the observed and the observer’s time metaphors of gravity and relativity, as interactive parables between the art and the public; creating conceptual structures and movement that synchronize with the mind.
“Breaking News Today” | C-Print on Metal | A-P | Edition of 5
“Jesus and the Jungle” | C.P. Vidal | Acrylic on Canvas | 2013
“The Metaphor Is Mine” | Modeling, Engraving | Soil and Acrylic on Wood | 2010-2012
“The Thinker in front of a Mirror” 2015 | Sculpture on wood & mirror | 2015
“Twenty Seven Chosen and One Errant | Installation, Engraving, Modeling Paste and Painting on wood
Evelyn Walg Belgium / US “The intention of this series is to show “my people in motion”. These paintings transmit a message of protest because they represent an ideal world of happiness, friendship, peace, love, and harmony that should prevail. I like to use bright colors and heavy textures, it is a way of adding strength to my almost ethereal men stepping, dancing, and running on the canvas. We are constantly connected through the Internet, Facebook, Twitter and iPhone, etc., but we are not together. My people hold hands, look and touch each other, and give one another a shoulder. They are in motion, but they are not alone. I create individuals with no identity, but with clear personalities. It is easy to spot the young, the old, the happy and sad, the energetic, the fat, and so on.”
“Busy Day” | Acrylic on Canvas
“Circles” | Acrylic on Canvas
“Friendly” Acrylic on Canvas
“Goals” | Acrylic on Canvas
“Love” | Acrylic on Canvas
Alfonso Martin Yebra Spain “I am attracted to experimentation, to expressing myself freely in the frontier of what is real, what is fantasy, what is uncertain. I never dream when I sleep. My dreams appear when I am awake. I dream about the world within other dreams, and imagine the world within other worlds. I believe that the artist’s fundamental role must be to make people dream. Physical objects, realities, and perceptions coexist with nonphysical objects in the same space and time. I seek the internal, fantastic, and mysterious images that transcend the certainties to which we are accustomed”.
“Europe and the migrant snails” | “Europa y los caracoles migrantes” | Oil on canvas | 100 x 81 cm
“Landscape in a singular time I” “Paisaje en singular” I Oil on canvas | 100 x 73 cm
“Stellar Paradise” | “Paraiso estelar” | Oil on canvas | 100 x 81 cm
“The Birth of the 21st Century / Nacimiento del siglo 21” | Oil on canvas | 100 x 81 cm
“The Three Kings” | “Los tres reyes” | Oil on canvas | 116 x 89 cm
Lucia Zalbidea Spain / Cuba “I feel a strong inclination towards experimenting with all kinds of materials: wood, textiles, and objects I find and sometimes I intervene; which reflects my career as an art restorer. My artworks explore the course of life, its traces and invisible marks, and are related to abstract concepts of waiting, memory and time.�
“Bordando mi vida”| “Embroidering my life” | Mixed media | Embroidery hoop, fabric, paper & natural fiber
“Ciega de sentimientos” | “Blind of feelings” | Mixed media | Embroidery hoop & fabric
“Life is out-there” | “La vida esta afuera” | Mixed media | Embroidery hoop, glass container, natural fiber, needles
“No es un peinado” | “It’s not a hairstyle” | Mixed media | Wood, fabric, thread & natural fiber
“Somos lo que comemos” | “We are what we eat” | Mixed media | Embroidery hoop, spoon & fabric
Silvia Maria Medina CEO, Art Director, Chief Curator Medina counts with more than 30 years of experience in the art field. Born in Cuba and graduated from Havana University with a degree in Latin American and Cuban Art, Medina has over 30 years’ experience in the arts. She is a founding member of the Havana Biennial and the Havana, Cuba Wilfredo Lam Center. Her trajectory is defined by emigration. She served as Executive Director of Sala Mendoza in Caracas, Venezuela from 1996 to 2002, Artistic Director at PagèsEspaid'Art Gallery in Barcelona, Spain from 2002 to 2006, and Intrepid Art Gallery in Vero Beach, Florida from 2010 to 2012. She has curated numerous national and international art fairs and collaborated with major art publications; including Art Nexus and Art Districts.
Niurka Barroso Executive Director An award-winning photographer specialized in documentary and fine art photography. Niurka graduated from Havana University with a degree in Classical Languages, and worked for the France Press Agency (AFP) for twelve years. Since 2005, she works as a freelance photographer in Toronto, Canada and worldwide. Barroso’s work exhibited in Austria, France, Canada, Cuba, Spain and The United States from 1998 to 2018, and was included in several group exhibitions in Canada, Cuba, France, Israel, Mexico, Spain and the United States from 1995 to 2019. She earned the Casa de las Americas Award for Contemporary Photography in 1998. She is the creator of “The Faces of Eve”, an itinerant photographic project about Women and the place they call HOME.
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