Participating Artists Catalog Special Edition
Niurka Barroso: Cuba/Canada “Photography is my most intimate language. I use the body as a symbolic territory where I stage my inner world of ideas and emotions, and through this process, I reconstruct my inner being. I explore themes of identity, genre, memory and time and they transcend the limits of my realms.” Barroso is a Cuban-born Canadian photographer who 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 France- Presse (AFP). Since 2005 she has worked as a freelance photographer in Toronto.
Archival Inkjet Prints Mounted on Plexiglas: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
“The Unsung Song” Untitled (Woman, White Pigeon, and Cepo) “All Around Me “Domestic Land-scape” “Fragmented Memories” “I am what I will be”/”Soy lo que sere” “Fishing Memories” “Time of Joy, Time of Sorrow”
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 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.� After working in dance and theatre, Battaglia turned to the figurative arts and, in collaboration with Gianni Miglietta, focused on the theme of perspective and anamorphosis accompanied by an in-depth study of optical distortion in sculpture.
Life Size Scenographic Sculpture with Video Projection: 1.
“Fra-Ma-Pi, fratelly”
Life Size Bronze Sculpture: 2. Elisa Bronze/Resin Anamorphic Sculpture: 3.
“La Ronde”
Resin Anamorphic Sculpture: 4. 5.
“Pegaso” “Il Muretto”/”The Wall”
Ileana Collazo: Cuba/USA “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 started to paint (on 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 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... - and 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.�
Manipulated Digital Photography Printed on Aluminum/Mounted on Museum quality Plexiglas: Alternate Landscapes Collection: 1. “Alternate Landscapes 1” 2. “Alternate Landscapes 3-2” 3. “Alternate Landscapes 6” 4. “Alternate Landscapes 7”
Abstracts Collection: 5. “Galactic Evolution 4” 6. “Gene Pool”
Flower Ghosts Collection: 7. “Fading Memory 2”
Fusion Collection: 8. “Galactic Collision 3”
Human Woman, the Female Identity Collection: 9. “Waiting and Falling for You”
Re-invented Objects: 10. “Pure Energy 2” 11. “Remembering Van Gogh”
Water Play Collection: 12. “Blue Energy Field 2”
Pepa Curriu: Spain “To begin a new work is like a game and a puzzle at the same time, elevating the color and the shape. This way to build a new microcosm, which unfinished until it crafted, balanced and completed.” Pepa Curriu started her education at the Sant Cugat del Vallès Art School and graduated from the Barcelona School of Art & Design, La Llotja, with a degree in Painting. Curriu has been a drawing and painting teacher and, above all, has explored many pictorial techniques and media. She has participated in several art exhibitions.
Mixed Media on Wood: 1. 2.
“Noi/”Boy” “Figural LLegint/”Figure Reading”
Oil on Canvas: 3. 4. 5. 6.
“Veles”/”Sails “Untitiled” “Untitled” “Camps al Vent”/”Fields in the Wind”
Luis Alberto Hernandez: Venezuela Luis Alberto Hernรกndez was born in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. At 18 he started drawing lessons at Francisco Pimentel Center in Caracas, earned degrees in Art and Literature from Venezuela Central University, and attended the Cristรณbal Rojas School of Visual Arts and The Graphic Teaching Center. His work intends to establish ties between our earthly limitations and the Infinite through an artistic discourse where the image acquire symbolic dimensions that refer to the ultimate essence of religion; addressing the longing for eternity, which is inseparable from the human conscience. What are we? What is the Sacred? In this reflection, his art links to a religious experience with both disciplines being of the spirit represent a response to the enigma of Creation. Art takes the seductive power of images, of religiosity, of their capacity to go beyond the evident. His Poetry of the Sacred unveils for us the persistence, or the necessity of artistic elements - signs, symbols - and a firm conviction in an extra-logic potential through dream revelations, ecstasies, intuitions, rage. Magic is not only an energetic force. In the art context, it is also a grace or gift that awakens prudence or enthusiasm among spectators, but never neutral reactions. For over 10 years, teaches history, drawing, aesthetics and visual arts elements the Institute for Advanced Studies of Visual Arts Armando Reverรณn and the School of Visual Arts Cristobal Rojas in Caracas, Venezuela.
Mixed Media on Canvas: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
“Del Cirulo y sus Metafores” “Del Lenguaje Interio” “Inconostase” “Mas alla del Halito” “Politico” “Visions of Eternity”
Consuegra Romero: Spain “I love art. Feeling drawing is feeling the soul of art. Today, the investigation with my artistic commitment is focused on being sincere with me and with the world we live in, and seeking the truth and the soul of drawing to strip it of superficiality, lies, and the blinded mediocrity in which we are buried. Furthermore, I'm interested in exploring the ball-point pen's technique, to ray, blur, dirty, draw and paint; always forgetting that I have a ball-pen in my hand.” Consuegra Romero was born in Cordoba, Spain. From her Fine Arts studies, she enjoyed the learning of a great variety of disciplines; the drawing and the painting being what she developed in her later works – including digital art in the creative process. Her most direct encounter with drawing began in the summer of 2015 when she was experiencing an existential crisis. This happening created a turning point concerning her experience with art. She began to draw in small sheets of paper in the room she had slept when she was a child, scribbling things with what was at hand, a ball-pen. Consuegra’s disturbing figurative work, always rendered in ball-pen, is characterized - in its search for a non-doctrinal graph - by an unrefined stroke; generating an imagery of characters who are either gathered in groups or alone - in overwhelming situations.
Ballpoint Pen on Paper: By the River Series: 1 through 5
Fiction Life Series: 3, 2 5 & 8
Evelyn Walg: Belgium/USA “To me, art is what evolves from my creative process. It begins in my mind and developes through the hands onto a visible surface. It becomes a spiritual encounter. The series intends to show“my people in motion.” These paintings transmit a message of protest because they represent a utopian 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 constantly connect through the internet: Facebook, Twitter, and iPhone, etc., but we are not together. My people hold hands, look and touch each other and give each other a shoulder. They are in motion, but they are not alone. I create individuals with no identity, but with defined personalities. It is easy to spot the young, the old, the happy and sad, the energetic, and the fat and so on. “ Walg was born in Belgium from Dutch parents. Because of the war, the family escaped to Spain with the intention of traveling to the Dutch Island of Curacao but ended in Caracas, Venezuela, where the artist lived for most of her life. At the age of 12, she won an art competition and exhibited at the National Art Gallery in Caracas; which was a boost to her artistic development. She graduated as an Interior Designer from Chicago School of Interior Design, 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. She currently lives in Miami.
Acrylic & Mixed Media: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
“Groups” “Limits” “Our Space” Musicians” “Goals”
For more information about the artists and the gallery contact: Art Concept Alternative, ACA Silvia Medina| 772.410.9126 | info@artconceptalternative.org
Staff: Silvia Maria Medina, CEO, Art Director, Chief Curator, has over 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, she is a founder member of the Havana Biennial and the Havana, Cuba Wifredo Lam Center. Emigration defines Medina's trajectory. She worked as Executive Director for Sala Mendoza in Caracas, Venezuela from 1996 to 2002, Artistic Director for PagèsEspaid’Art Gallery in Barcelona, Spain from 2002to 2006, and joined Intrepid Art Gallery in Vero Beach, Florida from 2010 to 2011. 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, is an award-winning photographer. She graduated from Havana University with a degree in Classical languages and worked for the Agence France-Presse (AFP) for twelve years. Since 2005, she has worked as a freelance photographer in Toronto. Niurka presented twenty solo exhibitions in Austria, Canada, Cuba, USA, and Spain from 1998 to 2015. Participated in numerous 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.
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