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Artist Statement:
Much of what I paint comes
from the complex Afro-Cuban
culture of my childhood in
RegIa. I am not an expert on
this culture, just a witness
to what I experienced as a
young man. That is the
perspective of youth where
everything blends together
with no sense of logic. Later
in school, I learned that much
of what I saw originated
beyond Cuba in Africa, China,
Spain, and other parts of the
world.
In school I learned such
disciplines as perspective and
rendering. These were useful
to me when I worked with
architects and designers in
Cuba and later when I worked
as a commercial artist in the
United States. I was never
ashamed of this work because
it paid the bills and allowed
me to live modestly so I could
do my fine art.
The discipline and focus that
is used in --commercial art, I
always applied to my painting.
Over the years my technique
has changed from the
simplicity of childhood
drawings, the abstract
expressionism of my ŇLos OnceÓ
days, to the more reflective
symbolic style that I use now,
which has elements of the
earlier phases. My subject
matter has always been Cuba,
whether it ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
List of showings, commisions
2002 Old Town Gallery, Tustin,
California
2000 Anderson Art Gallery,
Sunset Beach, California
U.S.A
2000 Presencia Cubana, Los
Angeles, California U.S.A
1999-2000 California African
American Museum, Los Angeles,
CA
“Rhythms of the Soul: African
Instruments in the Diaspora”
1999 UCLA “Viredo”, ...
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Artist Galleries:
Old Town Gallery
150 Main Street
Tustin, California USA
Phone: 714-734-9088
Galley Hours: Wed-Sat 12-5pm
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Collections:
African American Museum
Los Angeles, California USA
Museo Nacional
Havana, Cuba
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Reviews for Viredo Espinosa:
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Translation from Art Review in “Gente” Magazine March 29, 1953
...all of this is a physical portrait but above all mental that describes marvelously in the “plastic” painting a character, a temperament, almost all fail, but the oil of Espinosa Herandez (Viredo), “No. 36 Instrumentistas” and Portocarreros “No. 70 La Ciudad”, that are the ones that have form, colors to become a “message of cuban art”...
This was written in 1953 and still true today close to 50 years later of the "Maestro"
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