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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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Artist Reviews:
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 ...
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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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Artist Statement for Viredo Espinosa
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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 is workers in the fields, fishermen in ports, Afro-Cuban mythology, rural landscapes, or children playing in the street.
In my art I try to communicate my amazement at the diversity of humankind that I see around me. Sometimes I try to show the relationship between music and the visual arts. Other times I try to pay homage to the great artists of the past. I always return to the rich canvas of my childhood where so many elements blended together in so many colors and sounds.
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