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Artist Exhibitions:
List of showings, commisions
2009
Phanton Galleries LA on 3rd
Street
350 E. 3rd Street Long Beach,
CA 90802
April 25 - May 24, 2009
Curated by Martha De Perez
Engard Arts and
The Whittier Law School
3333 Harbor Blvd. (West on Law
Court)
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
May 30, 2009
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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
and by appointment
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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 ÒLos 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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