Artist Catalog 2017-2018 Edition
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 this project two years ago. Its mission is focused on connecting artists at different stages of their careers with professionals and art lovers through international exhibitions and art fairs. ACA also provides an ongoing 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 United States and global audiences. The gallery represents a diverse selection of multigenerational artists working across disciplines that include painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and experimental works. Art Concept Alternative has gained international recognition for its contribution to contemporary art discourse, and is currently collaborating with cultural institutions and museums in New York, Spain, Italy, and Latin America (Argentina, Cuba). ACA believes in the power of art to inspire and transform lives. We are pleased to present to the art world our first edition of our 2017-2018 Artist Catalog; a broad range of exceptional artistic styles; original in concept, and varied in techniques. Our outstanding art collection is now available to you. Cordially, Silvia M. Medina Executive Director Art Concept Alternative
Silvia Maria Medina CEO, Art Director, Chief Curator Medina counts with more than 30 years of experience in the field of fine arts. Born in Cuba, she earned her degree in Latin American and Cuban art from the University of Havana, and is a founding member of the Havana Biennial and the Havana Wilfredo Lam Center. Her trajectory has been defined by emigration. She had the distinction of being the Executive Director of Sala Mendoza in Caracas, Venezuela from 1996 to 2002, the Artistic Director for PagèsEspaid’Art Gallery in Barcelona, Spain from 2002 to 2006, and the Intrepid Art Gallery in Vero Beach, Florida from 2010 to 2011. Silvia has curated numerous National and International Art Fairs, and collaborated with major art publications including Art Nexus and art Districts magazines.
Niurka Barroso Executive Director Niurka Barroso, Art Concept Alternative’s Executive Director, is an awardwinning photographer. Graduated from Havana University with a degree in Classical languages, she worked for twelve years for the Agence FrancePresse (AFP). Since 2005, she has worked as a freelance photographer in Toronto, Canada. Niurka has presented twenty solo exhibitions in Austria, Canada, Cuba, USA, and Spain from 1998 to 2015; participated in several group exhibitions in Canada, Cuba, France, Israel, Mexico, Spain and the United States from 1995 to 2016; and received the Casa de las Americas Award for Contemporary Photography in 1998.
Featured Artists:
Hilda Vidal Cuba Hilda Vidal was born in Havana. She received personal painting classes from the master, poet and art critic Manuel Vidal; who was her sentimental partner. Since 1973, she has had 32 solo exhibitions in Belgium, Argentina, and Spain; and participated in 200 collectives in Cuba and abroad. In June 2017, she had her Solo Show "An Unmentionable Party" at La Despernada Cultural Center in Villanueva de la CaĂąada, Madrid, featured in Art Nexus magazine #105. Her artworks are included in private collections in Cuba, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Canada, USA, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Chile, Belgium, Panama, Argentina, Jamaica, Senegal, Nigeria and Japan.
Ganaremos Nosotros, Los Mas Sencillos
La Memoria del Espejo | 100 X 100 | 2002
Los Pensamientos Atan | 2008 | 100 X 100
Lucidez Perversa de la Nostalgia
Nunca se Supo que es Una Mirada 2014 | 100 x 100
Que Quiere Decir para Siempre | 2010 | 100 x 100
Se Creyรณ Mirar y era Mirado 2012 | 100 x 120
Sereno Como Un Pobre Topacio | 100 x 80 | 2011
Son el Pueblo del Cielo que nos Canta | 100 X 100 | 2011
Vienen del Turbio Horizonte | 2014 | 120 X 100
Luis Alberto Hernรกndez Venezuela At age 18 Luis Alberto began taking drawing lessons at the Francisco Pimentel Center in Caracas; later earning a degree in Art and Literature from Venezuela Central University, and enrolling in art clases in various cultural institutions including the Cristobal Rojas School of Visual Arts and the Graphic Teaching Center (CEGRA); He studied theology at the Theological- Institute for the Religious (ITER), and participates in numerous History, Art Appreciation, Art Critique, and History of Aesthetic Ideas lectures. His work seeks to establish ties between our earthly limitations and the Infinite through an artistic discourse where the images acquire symbolic dimensions that refer to the ultimate essence of religion; demostrating through this search the longing for eternity that is inseparable from the human conscience.
Conocer desde el Silencio | Gold Leaf (Mixed Media, Paperwork on Wood) | 50 X 38 cm.
Del Círculo y sus Metáforas | Gold Leaf (Mixed Media, Paperwork on Wood) | 50 X 38 cm.
De Leguaje Interior | Gold Leaf (Mixed Media, Paperwork on Wood) | 50 X 38 cm.
Iconastase | Gold Leaf (Mixed Media, Paperwork on Wood) | 50 X 38 cm.
Mas allรก del Halite | Gold Leaf (Mixed Media, Paperwork on Wood) | 50 X 38 cm.
Gold Leaf (Mixed Media, Paperwork on Wood)
Jorge Cavelier Colombia / USA The landscapes that Cavelier paints with masterful fluidity do not move us to any specific place, they are passages of entry to contemplative states; ethereal realms that take us back to all the spaces traveled by humanity through time. Cavelier works in painting and sculpture. After a brief incursion in architecture and a year of painting at New York University, he traveled to study in Italy in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, where he finished his BFA in 1982. Returning to Bogota the same year, he founded Trazo; an open studio where he worked and taught painting techniques. In June 1999, Cavelier was kidnapped by the Colombian guerrilla group FARC. He was released in 2000 and emigrated to U.S after being granted with an “extraordinary ability� permanent residence visa. Since then, Jorge Cavelier lives in Key Biscayne, FL. Several of his works have been sold at auction including 'ENCANTAMIENTO', sold at Sotheby's New York 'Latin American Art' in 2009.
Agua Lentas | Oil-linen | 29 x 86 inches
Agua Lentas II | Oil-linen | 29 x 86 inches
Aire Verde | Oil-linen | 70 x 114 inches
Magia Antigua | Oil-Linen | 60 x 79 inches
Tropico | Oil-linen | 50 x 72 inches
Via Turquesa | Oil-linen | 26 x 20 inches
Stella Battaglia Italy My works reflect on the relationship between vision and object, between the two dimensions of the image and the three dimensions of sculpture; which prompts me to create 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 that resonates with the observers. Initially working in dance and theatre, Battaglia turned to the figurative arts and - in collaboration with Gianni Miglietta - focused on the themes of perspective and anamorphosis; accompanied by an in-depth study of optical distortion in sculpture.
Fra-Ma-Pi, Fratelli | Sculpture with Video Projection | 95 x 75 x 150 cm
Elisa | Bronze Sculpture | 130 cm high
La Ronde | Anamorphic Sculpture in Synthetic resin | 120 cm high
Il Muretto | Anamorphic sculpture | Resin
Moonlight | Bronze Sculpture | 30 x 30 x 105 cm
Willy Perez Dominican Republic Willy studied art at Universidad Autonoma of Santo Domingo, Candido Bido Art Center, and The Art Student League in New York. The son of renowned artist Guillo Perez, the artist works as a Clinic Psychologist and is the Director of the Art School Guillo Perez. One of the themes the artist explores with singular assurance is the universe of water. He has deciphered the enigma of the sea, enclosing in his works the treasures of its flora and fauna, its silent beings, its vessels run aground or sailing aloft in the wind; as well as longings for high-tide‌ All the poetic geometry of the Dominican landscape appears in his paintings - with special emphasis on the diversity of color to the Antilles -whose details suggest an instinct for ecological preservation without in tet sense of limiting themselves to local color.
Abstracciรณn Marina | Acrylic on Canvas
Abstracciรณn | Acrylic on Canvas
Acuario | Acrylic on Canvas
Atardecer en Florida | Acrylic on Canvas
Composiciรณn Social | Acrylic on Canvas
La Pecera | Acrylic on Canvas
Los Ciclistas 1 | Acrylic on Canvas
Los Ciclistas 2 | Acrylic on Canvas
Veleros con Pescadores | Acrylic on Canvas
Carlos Perez Vidal Cuba / USA From an early age the Cuban-born artist excelled in storytelling collage, drawing, sculpture, and installations of an eclectic mysticism. As a teenager, he joined the famous San Alejandro Academy. A talented student, he developed the formal skills that he employs to excell in his fertile, innovative, and prolific career. After San Alejandro, Carlos graduated from ENAP, National School of Fine Arts woth with honors and receivedthe first prize for his thesis graduated thesis from the ENAP, National School of Fine Arts, as well as from the ISA, Superior Art Institute of Havana, Cuba. A pivotal part of the change makers during the radical movement of New Cuban Art that has been known as Cuban Art Renaissance – which started in 1988 with the visit of Robert Rauschenberg to Havana – Perez Vidal was also a founding member of the dissident art group “La Campana” (The Bell Art Project). His passion for the wisdom of ancestral cultures drove him to study anthropology, the biblical heritage of the world, middle-ages alchemyc and the cosmogonic rites of the universe. This vast knowledge has marked and inspired his work, showing how those multicultural legacies have an influence on our actual lives. His work has been exhibited in the Havana and Czech Republic Biennials, Art Basel Miami, Art Serbia, Art Munich, Art Montenegro, Arte Americas, Miami Beach, Art Berlin, Art Malaga, Museum of Modern Art, State of Mexico, Exit Art, New York, Eight Modern, Santa Fe, Sanmartin Contemporani, Barcelona, Ludwig Forum Fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Mestna Galerija, City Art Museum, Ljubljana, Intrepid Art Gallery, Raw Space, Florida, among others. He currently lives in Florida.
The Horses Rite, Acrylic on Wood, 120 cm x 75 cm
Under Pleasures | Acrylic on Canvas
Alma Mater Project | Sidharta at the Cathedral
Naturaleza Absoluta | Acrylic on Canvas
The Acuarium Lovers | Acrylic on Canvas
The Rite of Spring | Acrylic on Canvas
Talking about Constellations | Instllation
The Eternal Romance of Transculturation | Acrylic on Canvas
Ana Albertina Delgado Cuba/ US Ana Albertina founded the Art Cuban group “Pure” with other four artists in 1986; which impacted Cuban esthetic by incorporating popular and social themes into works of art. She also belongs to the group of Cuban artists known as the “Generation of the 80’s/The Prodigious Decade”. Her work has been exhibited in Cuba, Mexico, Latin American, Europe and the United States. Her peculiar universe is charged with the most varied influences contained in Cuban popular culture; especially peasant and AfroCuban imagery and popular Mexican culture; as well as the feminist and feminine tradition that floods her work. Her work has been collected by the University of Miami Lowe Art Museum; the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, MOA; The FIU Frost Art Museum; the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA; the University of Guadalajara, Mexico Museum of Art; Ponce, Puerto Rico Art Museum of Ponce; and the the Havana, Cuba National Museum of Fine Arts.
Catch Me if you Can
Close to my Eyes
From the Series: Mujeres de Portland 1
From the Series: Mujeres de Portland 2
Golden Island
Orange Moon
Niurka Barroso Cuba / Canada Graduated from Havana University with a degree in Classical Languages, Niurka’s photography shows a strong documentary intention; the indelible mark of her experience as a photojournalist working with Agence FrancePresse (AFP) for 12 years. She is a winner of the 1998 Latin-American Award “Casa de las Americas for Contemporary Photography”. Photography is her most intimate language. She uses the body as a symbolic territory where she stages her inner world of ideas and emotions. Her themes are related to concepts of identity, genre, memory and time.
All Around Me
Domestic Land-Scape
Fishing Memories
Fragmented Memory
The Unsung Song
Time of Joy, Time of Sorrow
Untitled (Woman, White Pigeon and Cepo)
Tutua Boshell Colombia / US Boshell was born in Bogota, Colombia and graduated from The French Language and Culture Institute in Paris, and from the Universidad del Rosario in Bogota. She worked for 9 years at the Alliance Française d’ Bogota until 1979, and then opened her own studio. The artist produced numerous paintings and sculptures after participating in marble carving workshops in Pietrasanta, Italy. In 1998, she settled down in Miami where she earned a Master in Arts at the University of Miami under the mentorship of Darby Bannard; a well-known abstract painter. Tutua is well-known for creating “all-over” surfaces of color modulations on the canvas. She plays with concepts of reality and illusion; printing her artworks on mirror glass that creates an interactive relationship between the viewer and the image.
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By the River 1
By the River 2
By the River 3
Menina of light | Mixed Media | Print on Glass
Menina of Sand | Mixed Media | Print on Glass
Menina of Sea | Mixed Media | Print on Glass
Menina of Stone | Mixed Media | Print on Glass
Meninas | Mixed Media | Print on Glass
Machu Picchu | Acrylic on Canvas | 2005
From the Series Muros | Acrylic on Canvas | 2005-2009
MANUEL MARTINEZ OJEA Cuba / Spain Born in Las Tunas, Cuba Manuel has lived in Valencia, Spain for 22 years. He graduated from the University of Arts of Cuba (Instituto Superior de Arte) in 1993, and then worked as an art teacher in his hometown. In 1988 - with the help of other creatives - he founded “La Campana”, a group that organized several cultural projects in Las Tunas. Martinez Ojea’s themes range from the most sophisticated philosophical, theological, and ethical reflections to simple love stories and the romantic nationalism of his memories of Cuba. His intention is to create an object to behold and reflect upon; a work where the reference to reality becomes essential and the questioning of its validity becomes inevitable.
A Veces Conviene ir Armado
A Veces las Cosechas
Como Tallar un Arbol sin Hacerle DaĂąos a Terceros
Las Cerezas de Eva
Trailer para IncrĂŠdulos de la Primavera
Alvaro PeĂąa Spain A versatile artist born in Murcia, Spain, Alvaro graduated in Political Science and Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid. He has taught multiple courses in painting, illustration, and comics at The Royal Academy of Alfonso X "The Wise" of Murcia. Although he has a well-defined personal style, PeĂąa believes that his work is not confined by any particular discipline. He consistently alternates between painting, drawing, and illustration to manifest his most vital feelings and ideas.
Obra 1
Obra 2
Obra 3
Obra 4
Obra 5
Obra 7
Obra 8
Obra 10
Obra 1
Obra 12
Obra 13
Pablo Lanuza Spain Lanuza earned a Fine Arts degree from the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungria, and works as a painting and drawing teacher in Seville, Spain. He explores the expressive and emotional possibilities of painting through his abstract work.
ExĂŠgesis 2 Oil and Collage on Linen
Junco Suite III | Oil on Linen
Rojo 1 | Oil on Linen
Rojo 2 | Oil on Linen
Untitled | Oil on Linen
Waltzing Camilo | Oil on Linen
Alejo Santa Maria Colombia Self-taught painter that combines various artistic media: portraiture, sculpting, painting, graphic design, illustration, photography and cinematography throughout his career. He has worked with indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, and produced several television documentaries, which have been broadcasted by national and international networks. Alejo Santa Maria is a traveling artist seeking for the ancestral knowledge of indigenous communities. He establishes a spiritual and pictorial dialogue between modernity and ancient cultures to challenge our hyper-connected world.
Carnaval 1865
Hombre Verdadero
Hombres Mirando al Sur
La Mirada Invisible
La Noche de las Siete Lunas
Untitled
Solo en las Fotos me QuerĂas
Turtle Man
Evelyn Walg Belgium/US Born in Belgium from Dutch parents. Due to the war, the family escaped to Spain with the intention of travelling to the Dutch Island of Curacao, but tended in Caracas, Venezuela where Walg lived most of her life. At the age of 12, the artist won an art competition and exhibited at the National Art Gallery in Caracas; this provided a tremendous boost to her artistic development. After obtaining an Interior Designer degree from the Chicago School of Interior Design Evelyn studied art in Venezuela with Miguel Renom and Marcela Haye, in Miami with Joseph Davoli, and at the Center for the Arts in Raanana, Israel.
Busy Day
Circles
Follow the Leader
Friendly
Love
Our Space
Lucia Zalbidea Spain Born in Valencia and graduated in Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Lucia developed a successful career as an art restorer in the Department of Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage (P.U.V). She is a member of Arteenred Group and co-founder of the “Al Marge Espai d’Art” Gallery in Javea, Alicante, Spain. Since 1996 the artist is also the CEO of Aurelia International Publishing House. Zalbidea experiments with a wide range of materials including wood, textiles, and objects she finds and oftentimes intervenes; which reflects her career as an art restorer. Her themes are related to abstract concepts of waiting, memory, and time.
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Habana
Life is Out There
Mi Otra Piel
No es un Peinado
Somos lo que Comemos
Triptych
Ileana Collazo Cuba/USA Ileana learned all she needed to about creating art as a young girl in her grandmother's garden - where she sat doing what as an adult she calls meditating. That quiet spot became her temple. Many years passed before she began to birth the creations conceived in her early daydreams. She started to write fiction and poetry, and then her mind exploded into a galaxy of colors, shapes, and movement as she started to paint on a variety of surfaces, digitally, and then added photography and digital visual art to her artistic spectrum. Her 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. Her work is her gift to the world, and to everyone who falls in love with it. Collazo was born in Cuba, and lived in Spain, New York, Vermont, and Massachusetts. She now resides in Miami, Florida where she works and plays with her artist husband Miguel, 4 dogs, and cats in the yard. Ileana takes 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, she digitally mixes and matches the images to create the finished work. When she paints, she allows colors, shapes, and movement to guide her to express the language that floats inside her brain.
Galactic Evolution 2 | Abstracts Collection
Gene Pool 1 | Abstracts Collection
Fading Memory 2 | Flower Ghosts Collection
Galactic Collision 3 | Fusion Collection
Waiting and Falling for You | Human Woman, The Female Identity Collection
Pure Energy 2 | Re-invented Objects Collection
Remembering Van Gogh | Re-invented Objects Collection
Energy Field 2 | Water Play Collection
Eliel Pérez Colón Puerto Rico
Graduated from American University with a degree in Business Administration with a specialization in Management, colorblindness hasn’t been an obstacle in the artist’s career as a painter. Selected as the artist to represent Puerto Rico overseas through the Company Goya Puerto Rico, Eliel was recognized as The Best Artist of the Year by LeMode magazine in 2015.
Vende-se | Acrylic on Canvas | 49.5” x 48”
Relaxation | Acrylic on Canvas | 72 x 36 in
Woman: Structure, Essence, and Posture | Acrylic on Canvas | 41.5 x 30 in
Reinterpretation “Flaming June” | Acrylic on Canvas | 40 x 40 in
Transformation | Acrylic on Canvas | 40.5 x 28.5 in
Retrospection 1940 | Acrylic on Canvas | 60” x 48”
Estela Garcia Spain Estela graduated as a photographer from Institut d´Estudis Fotografics de Catalunya (IEFC) Spain in 2007. She also studied Nude Photography with Catalan photographer Manel Esclusa in 2006 and Old Photographic Techniques with Esther Llorca in 2005 at IEFC. These images were made without a camera, the textures created directly in the dark room using a chemical process on large format black and white film.
Untittled | Mapas de Vuelo
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Untitled | Mapas de Vuelo
Consuegra Romero Spain Consuegra earned a Fine Arts degree from the University of Granada, Spain, and in 2012 received the Leonardo da Vinci Scholarship, in Florence, Italy. Her disturbing figurative work - always rendered with ball point pen - is characterized by an unrefined stroke in search for a not doctrinally graph; generating an imagery of characters in overwhelming situations who are sometimes gathered in groups and others alone.
Congragation 4
Congragation 5
Congrgattion 6
Congragation 7
Congragation 8
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Ernie Barreto Cuba / US A self-taught visual artist who experiments with acrylics and enamel, Ernie took extensive courses in ceramics and sculpture during his undergraduate studies. He graduated from Florida International University with a degree Psychology, and earned his Master in Social work from Barry University. Although most of his current work is fundamentally abstract, upon closer scrutiny, landscapes, figures and/or emotions subtly emerge.
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ALFONSO MARTIN YEBRA Spain MartĂn Yebra was born in Madrid, but spent his first fourteen years in Sidi Ifni, a small Southern Moroccan town. He studied programming and computer systems analyst in Madrid, and discovered his passion for painting in 1984. Since then, Alfonso has exhibited his work in numerous galleries and venues in Madrid. To emphasize his own world of dreams and challenge our perceptions, the artist creates thought-provoking universes, mixing physical objects and realities with non-physical ones in the same space and time.
Binรกh (Understanding) | Towers Serie | Oil on Canvas
Blues Souls | Studio Series | Oil on Cardboard
City Pop | Urban Landscapes | Oil on Canvas
Europe and the Migrant Snails. Oil on Canvas
Untitled | Urban Landscapes | Oil on Canvas
Wave | Tower Series | Oil on Canvas
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