saltfineart LATIN CONTEMPORARY
ANA MERCEDES HOYOS Columbia
MY FRUIT IS FRESH | 20 x 28 inches | lithograph | edition 25/40 | $1,250
Ana Mercedes Hoyos is recognized as one of the most outstanding artists in Colombia – with solo exhibitions in New York, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Buenos Aires. Over the course of her lifetime, she dedicated her tremendous talents in painting and sculpture to conveying an early love of Modernism which she married with an anthropological investigation of subjects like the community of San Basilio de Palenque, the first free territory of the Americas and the only matriarchal society in Latin America. She has received numerous awards and invitations from the governments of Japan and the United States and has exhibited across 4 different continents in the last 55 years. Her work, with commentaries by well-known critics, has been featured in four previous books and in magazines such as Art News, Newsweek, Time and Art in America.
ÑURO DI VITILO DI MONASITÀ 28 x 20 inches Hand-pulled silkscreens Edition 25/40 $1,250 each
ANDRIY HALASHYN Costa Rica
MY LOVELY POKEMON | 48 x 64 inches | oil on canvas | $7,000
Andriy Halashyn was born in the Ukraine, first visiting Costa Rica with his father, a notable stained-glass artist. Once there, the young artist fell in love and never looked back, making the country his home for the past 15 years. Today Halashyn is a global sensation, exhibiting in notable galleries throughout the world. His lushly dystopian paintings have a rich cosmopolitan touch with references to high-end popular culture, fashion, and advertising. His use of oils, when rendering, have a graphic and color-saturated appeal, while collage-like compositions juxtapose flights of fancy with harsh reality checks. Over the course of several bodies of work, Halashyn has explored the drastic contrasts between media streams and the everyday realities of life all with a flair for the dramatic both in color and composition. His work has earned him several awards both in Costa Rica and the Ukraine.
KISS MY ANIMAL BALLOON | 48 x 48 inches | oil on canvas | $6,000
ANÍBAL CATALÁN Mexico
MORPHO & DEBRIS | installation INTERVENED POLAROID
Aníbal Catalán’s work, comprised of sculpture, installation, drawings and paintings, draws tremendous influence from the stark sensibilities of the Russian Constructivists. First introduced to the genre while studying at the School of Architecture, Universidad Anahuac (1993-1997), Catalan became immediately drawn to the limited color palette and futuristic suspension design. Much of what the Constructivists constructed was the stuff of dreams. Never built, their concepts entered the land of Babel. Catalán by contrast creates works that feel like a fairy tale but perform like a grand work of engineering calling up the history of human flight and the early days of space travel. Catalán lives and works in Mexico City and shows his work internationally most recently in a series of notable solo museum exhibitions.
MORPHO & DEBRIS chandelier 9 x 6 x 4 feet sculpture with LED lights, wood, plexiglass, & metal | $5,000
CECILIA PAREDES Peru & Philadelphia PA, US
SIRENA EN EL MAR DE ROSES | 39 Ă— 43 inches | performance photography | $9,500 ART NOUVEAU | 39 x 39 inches | performance photography | $9,000
Cecilia Paredes is renown for her performance, photography, sculpture, and installation. Using her body as the canvas, she paints herself into backgrounds of damask and chintz, forests and deserts. But she never completely blends; never becomes mere decoration. Her works are both deeply autobiographical and universally accessible. The desire to blend, fit in with a culture or community and thrive while we do so is a tension as old as humanity itself. Paredes is a part of the permanent collection of the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Panama Modern Museum, Museo del Barrio New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design Costa Rica among many other institutions. In 2010 she will have a solo show at the Moscow Modern Museum of Art and a Fulbright-sponsored show at the Cultural Institute in Lima. IN THE HEART OF YOUR WINGS | 48 x 50 inches | performance photography | $10,000
CISCO MEREL Panama
Cisco Merel and his work. Cisco Merel mural in an abandoned building.
Panamanian artist Cisco Merel combines the compositional awareness of a classical painter and the graphic qualities of a street artist in order to convey a post-modern Utopia, moments of beauty and color infused into a world of chaos and concrete. Merel earned his BFA at the University of Art in Geneva, Panama in 2004 and has recently gone on to receive scholarships to artist residencies in Leipzig and Paris. He has been exhibited throughout Central and South America and most recently in Belgium and Germany. saltfineart is proud to be the first gallery to represent his work in the United States.
UNTITLED | 48 x 39 inches | acrylic on canvas | $6,000
ESTERIO SEGURA Cuba
HIBRIDO DE CHRYSLER | 42 x 72 inches | mixed media on paper | $20,000
Known for his eclectic and transgressive explorations of socio-political processes and the way they are expressed in sexuality and religion in particular, Segura’s works in nearly every medium and operates on the highest levels of philosophy and kitsch. Working under the constant threat of censorship within his own country, Segura has worked tirelessly to promote the realities and the joys of Cuban life as it mingles with the larger truths of life in general. Love, lost, freedom and of course, the ability to express oneself creatively are the core of his work both artistically and socially. He has exhibited around the world, in cities such as London, Paris, Berlin, Los Angeles, New York, Barcelona, Italy and Beirut. Living and working in Havana, Cuba, Segura’s work forms part of the permanent collections of the MOMA (New York), the MOLAA (Long Beach, CA) and the Latin American Art Museum (UK). GOODBYE MY LOVE | installation of 14’ airplanes, Connecticut | fiberglass and automotive Available in 8 x 108 x 24 inch size for $20,000
JOHAN BARRIOS Columbia + Texas
UNTITLED | 66 x 64 inches | oil on canvas | $8,000
Johan Barrios is interested in the intersection of time and place using the human form as a marker, engaging a tension between the body as subject and the body as an object. Barrios takes up the phenomenon of suspended time with a warmth that references tintype photographs where the emulsion has been brushed onto glass plates by hand. Further pushing visual boundaries, Barrios will often obscure the face by adding graphic elements to his meticulously rendered figures, resulting in a dark and fearless whimsy. These choices force the viewer to engage, crossing the canvas, again and again, to take in every detail.
DESVELO 72 x 48 inches oil on canvas $7,000
JORGE LOPEZ PARDO Cuba
ACTUACION_INTERIOR | 48 x 59 inches | graphite on canvas
Born in Trinidad, but living and working in Havana, Jorge Lopez Pardo has exhibited his stark images of isolation throughout Cuba, Spain, Mexico and the United States. One of the most striking aspects of his work is his technique, graphite on canvas, the simplicity of the medium informing his dramatic compositions. Pardo makes a visual case for the singular point of view whether it be a county, mode of thought, or person. Using an exquisitely restrained palette and subject matter, there is a singular elegance and detail to the images that paradoxically speak not of beauty but of solitude. Lopez Pardo’s work obliquely captures the loneliness and sense of limbo— the neither here nor there— of living and working in contemporary Cuba.
RUTINA | 60 x 60 inches | graphite on canvas | $16,000
JOSÉ RODRÍGUEZ El Salvador
UNTITLED | 66 x 64 inches | mixed media on canvas | $8,000 UNTITLED | 29 x 25 inches | mixed media on canvas | $3,000
With over 100 collective and 11 solo exhibitions, the quiet power of Rodriguez’s surreal world has earned him a following recognized by juries and collectors alike. The past fifteen years have seen him winning top awards in both national and international museum competitions. He has represented his country at two international biennials (Central America and the Caribbean) as well as having served as a judge at international competitions throughout Latin America. His work belongs to the collections of the Taipei Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan, the Museum of Art and Design in Costa Rica, as well as private collections in Spain, New York, Miami, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Italy, and Morocco.
UNTITLED | 66 x 64 inches | oil on canvas | $8,000
LUCIANO GOIZUETA Costa Rica
UNTITLED | 31.5 x 31.5 inches | acrylic on canvas | $2,500
Luciano Goizueta’s paintings create an intangible bond between memory and place. Goizueta uses color to represent how our minds remember places, people, and occurrences from the past. This visual calls into reality a phenomenon – that every time we recall a moment from the past, we are remembering the last time we remember it, rather than that moment itself. Goizueta has shown his paintings extensively in Costa Rica and across Latin America and Europe with major shows in Miami. His exhibition at salt is the first time he has shown on the West Coast.
DESVELO 72 x 48 inches oil on canvas $7,000
LUIS CORNEJO El Salvador
ONCE UPON A TIME | 30 x 40 inches | archival giclee print | $1,200
Luis Cornejo’s ability to masterfully combine acrylic and oil to fuse hyper-realism with a highly stylized, “super flat” style is highly utilized in his playfully forward use of high-profile pop iconography. The artist’s keen sense of humor takes aim at celebrity and video gaming culture presenting questions with wit instead of direct criticism. Living and working in El Salvador, Cornejo has exhibited individually and collectively in Nicaragua, Pan ma, El Salvador, Mexico, Canada, and Germany. Cornejo’s career has skyrocketed in recent years, with a scholarship to Berlin (200910), top awards from the Salvadorian Museum of Art (MARTE) in 2008, as well as the National Art Awards in 2003 and 2001 (El Salvador).
Luis Cornejo HEAVEN 51 x 39 inches oil on canvas $7,500
MAURICIO CORTES Mexico
GALO & AQUA| 8.5 x 18 x 8 inches | glazed porcelain | $3,000 each
For Mauricio Cortes, creating the human figure is a dual act of fragility and strength. Working from his studio in San Pedro Garza GarcĂa, Mexico, Cortes often incorporates Aztec s ymbology- strength, unity, and courage – woven into the headdresses of his female figures, his artwork very much an homage to the strength and resilience of the woman in his life. They are celebrations of human beings, sleeping and in that state ultimately vulnerable, round, forceful, playful when awake, facing the viewer head-on or singing to themselves as if wrapped in a world all their own. Each carries an atmosphere of meaning, enhanced by the objects they carry in their hands or expressed through their hair, some most powerful simply because they exist. Cortes received his education at the University of Monterrey and studied Art History at the University of Valladolid, Spain.
MUJER DORMIDA XI 9.5 x 37 x 13.5 inches glazed porcelain $3,800
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LA NEGRA FLOR 20 x 40.5 x 13.5 inches glazed porcelain $5,000
OLGA SINCLAIR Panama
UNTITLED | 59 x 59 inches | oil on canvas | $38,000
Olga Sinclair was born in Panama City to the famous painter Alfredo Sinclair. Showing early talent, Sinclair participated in her first exhibition amongst professional painters when she was only 14 year old. Sinclair went in 1976 to the Academy of Applied Arts in Madrid, Spain. There she did three years classic art drawing lessons at the famous Arjona Studio. Since 1994 Olga and her family have resided in Panama and Olga is currently Panama’s Cultural Ambassador. Considered the most accomplished and well-known living artist in Panama Sinclair has had solo exhibitions in the Miami, London, Madrid, Amsterdam, Jakarta and Buenos Aires. Her art forms a part of the permanent collections of museums in Latin America, the United States and Europe. On January 18, 2014 in Panama City, Sinclair organized 5,084 children to paint simultaneously for three minutes to break the world record. The piece depicted a set of Canal locks as the event commemorated 100 years of the Panama Canal. Since then Sinclair has pioneered arts education for children through her foundation.
ABSTRACTO | 78 x 118 inches | oil on canvas | $110,000
RAFAEL VARELA El Salvador
UN NUEVO DIA | 35 x 35 inches | acrylic on canvas | $5,500
Recognized as one of the master realists of Latin America, Varela has celebrated solo exhibitions in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and the United States. Additionally, he has participated in collective group shows in Central America, the Dominican Republic, the United States and Spain. His work forms part of several important public collections such as the Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), the Vatican (Rome), the White House Collection in Washington D.C as well as private collections in Central America, the United States, Europe, and Japan.
MORNING | 35 x 35 inches | acrylic on canvas | $5,500
MABEL POBLET Cuba
COSMOS | 29 x 39 inches | photographic printing on PVC, pins, threads | $6,000
Living and working in Havana Cuba, Mabel Poblet is one of the most highly soughtafter young artists to emerge from the contemporary Cuban art scene. Graduating from the Higher Institute of Arts, Poblet also attended the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts where she was a student of Carlos Garaicoa. During a visit to a female prison in Cuba, Poblet met an inmate who was teaching how to make plastic flowers. Poblet realized that for these women this was a real means to release their creativity and imagination. To this day she used thousands of plastic flowers in her work to honor the female Cuban experience. In 2005, she was awarded the Prize of the Jury at the Provincial Salon of Visual Arts (Cienfuegos, Cuba) and the Prize of the Provincial Council of Visual Arts at the Salon 5 (Cienfuegos, Cuba).
TRILLIZAS |40 x 60 inches | mixed media and plastic on photography | $10,000
OSMEIVY ORTEGA Cuba
SINTONIA TARA PIANO Y ORQUESTA |39.5 x 27.5 inches | woodblock print on brown paper | $1,250
Living and working in Havana, Cuba with a studio on the grounds of the prestigious ISA (Instituto Superior de Arte), Osmeivy Ortega is an artist surrounded by strong cultural and physical ties to the natural world. Ortega first graduated from the ISA and is now a professor there, fostering a renewed interest in progressive printmaking techniques. Already a sensation in Cuba, Ortega has had solo exhibitions of his work in Washington DC and the Cleveland Institute of Art as well as numerous group exhibitions within the United States as well as Mexico and Spain. His work is dominated by his connection to animals and the natural world, each “portrait� speaking to a metaphysical sense of shared emotion between animals and humans.
UNTITLED | 55.5 x 55 inches | wood block print on brown paper| $4,500
UGO ZOGBI Argentina
LUNDA VERDE AGUA | 20 x 32 inches | acrylic on canvas | $1,800
Born in Argentina, painter Ugo Zogbi started his early life in public as a semi-professional tennis player which he admits was not his calling. The experience of “performing” for crowds however shaped his perceptions of private and public life, forever giving himself a self-actualized “public persona.” His first major career was in advertising and marketing which he turned away from in order to dedicate his whole life to painting. He creates primarily out of doors, inspired by the patina of salt and decay, he wanders the beaches of different countries painting with obscure materials – even creating marks by throwing brushes at his canvases from far off. Ugo Zogbi has never before exhibited in a gallery until saltfineart discovered his work. The pieces acquired by the gallery have survived the elements, carried on Zogbi’s person through several countries and even a few hurricanes.
ILUVIA TORTUGA | 19 x 51 inches | acrylic on canvas| $2,200 SOMBRA AZUL | 11.5 x 23.5 inches | acrylic on canvas| $1,200
VICTOR HUGO ZAYAS Mexico, Los Angeles, CA
LA RIVER SERIES | 37 x 37 inches | oil on canvas, framed in welded steel | $5,000
Victor Hugo Zayas is a painter and sculptor that has defining himself through a rigorous dedication to his craft. Having relocated only a handful of times in the past 25 yrs within the same small area of East L.A., Victor Hugo has a deep and lasting relationship with the buildings, bridges and pockets of nature that flank the L.A. River. His entire body of work is a breathing testament in oils and steel to the city that has, as he often expresses, given him so much. The last 25 years have seen his work grow at an insistent pace, with dozens of exhibitions in galleries across Southern California as well as in prestigious museums such as the MOLAA (Long Beach, CA), Latino Art Museum (Claremont, CA), the Contemporary Museum of Art (Mexico City, Mexico) and the Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach, CA). His work forms a part of important corporate and private collections from Washington DC to Sydney to Hong Kong.
MARIANA |78 x 91 inches | oil on canvas, framed in welded steel | $25,000
ABOUT SALTFINEART + RAWSALT saltfineart + RAWsalt is located in Laguna Beach, CA. The gallery has two major areas of focus: Latin Contemporary, representing artists who live and work in Latin America from museum caliber to emerging & Emerging Global, artists who are breaking boundaries in all areas of contemporary art ranging from beginning to mid-career. From the street to the studio, the talent leads us.
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