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No. 18. Voice From the Studio. The Newsletter of The Art of Felix Berroa. Marietta -Atlanta-, Georgia, April, 2007

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My First 2007 Big Outdoor show

"2007 Barefoot in the Park Fine Arts Festival".

April 21, 22, 2007.

Location: Town Green in History Downtown Duluth. Duluth, Georgia 30097.

"Sighting birds 2". Acrylic and Oil on canvas. 46"x42.5"x2". 2007. Sold. Click toEenlarge.

This painting and many others will be exhibit at Barefoot in the Park this weekend.

I invite you to meet me in this great festival of the visual arts in Duluth, Georgia. It is my first great outdoor festival of this year 2007. The works to be exhibited will be a combination of a group created in those first months of this year and in September and October of 2006.

The photos of works 2006-2007 here are alone some of those will be exhibit.

Inman Park Festival

The second great festival will be at the end of this month, April 28, 29 2007, in Inman Park, in Atlanta City. There I will bring a few surprises of new works. Those created with enamel on masonite and some acrylic and oil.

I began to work with enamel and lacker paint when I was about 12 and continues in the 16 years old, when I have my first show in 1967. In 1986-1988 I continued experiencing with these medium on wood, playwood and masonite. They were small sculptures and large assemblings.

(Why I always publish some "flashback" of my art? They are especially for Atlanta, Georgia, where I moved no long time ago, and many people ignore my background. Some people, ignoring the background of an artist had the tendency to qualify him or to compare with other erroneously).

"History of Humanity under the eyes of God". Oil on Playwood. 36"x36". 1977. Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic.	"The Wife". Assemblage. Wood, Masonite, playwood. 1986. Long Island, New York,	Sculpture. Wood, canvas, acrylic. 1988. Long Island, New York.

"History of Humanity Under the Eyes of God". Oil on playwood, 1977. This work is in very bad shape in the office of my brother in Santo Domingo, DR, by being attacked by the humidity through the time.

Playwood is a combination of several thin layers of wood hold together with a resistant hard glue. Each layer is glue crossing fiber each other, what makes it strong to be broken or to bend. However, in spite of this positive carateristicas, it has weakness. In a continuous humidity, the layers tend to separate or crack. Because of that reality in "History of Humanity Under the Eyes of God", I substituted the playwood for masonite that had a consistency much more strongest. The only weakness I have found in the masonite is the hight temperature. When the masonite bein exposure to up to 100 degrees can be lightly curved in the center. The masonite is so strong that it take a lot of work to cut it, even with an electric saw.

At the moment I have two estudios. One for works with acrylic and oil, and other for enamel and barnish applying. In the picture below I'm in action with enamel on hard material as wood and masonite.

Estudio for asamblages, application of barnis and creations with enamel on wood and masonite. Estudio para asamblages, aplicacion de barnis y creacione con enamel sobre madera y masonite.

Previous Newsletter No. 17, April 2007. Click Here.

For More Available Works, Go to Georgia Period Gallery.

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My Art Philosofy

Since my time in the Dominican Republic, my idea on the art has been that the artist is a kind of sponge, songwriter singer, of the things that surround him in a certain society. Therefore, he should sing to all that affects his sensibility, his conscience. The "technique" is the result of the academy, the experience with the materials, the learning "after seen the art works of the masters" around the world through the years. (One of the popular Hispanic singers I enjoy listening is the Panamanian Rubén Blades, because of his high "musical quality and great voice" (The technique); and the content of the words -the literature- in his songs, where he expressed a high feelings toward his native country -Panama -, the people, hispanoamerica, the love, the pain, etc. (the message). One of his very impressive CD's is titled "Tiempos" -Times-). In the Dominican Republic the Master songwriter is Juan Luis Guerra.

To write more on the matter of the "technical" and the "message", I will point out the case of Fernando Botero from Colombia. Famous around the world, millionaire. His works are in many museums around the world. His work of nudes, portraits and his compositions about his country (Colombia) are highly artistic and acceptable for most people -technical, composition, subject-. However, there are many people that in their top of the success, will no care about any sad thing, but NO IN A TRUE ARTIST. Fernando Botero is an ARTIST. In spite of having all that achievements, Fernando Botero was "sensitive" of what happening in his country. He also paint about the crisis of his Colombia : the violence, etc.

When I left the Dominican Republic in 1981, I made an exhibition of farewell to my friends and the local artistic atmosphere. The exhibition of farewell was titled "La Vida, el Sueño y la Muerte" (The Dream, the Life and the Death)", exhibited in the Gallery Paiewonski, in the capital city Santo Domingo. In that time I prepares the following statement:

"The subject in Art has to be found
in the happiness and in the sadness
in the well-being and in the pain
in the beauty and in the ugliness
in the maternal love and in the passionate
in the smile of a child,
or in the softness of an old man.
In short, The Life, the Dreams and Death of all human beings."

Felix Berroa, 1981. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

For those who not yet have read my biography, I'm mid 50's years old and I have studied 5 years "Fine Arts" at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes; "Art Education" at the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo -UASD-; two years in "Wood Carving", at the Centro Nacional de Artesania. All three educational centers located in Santo Domingo, RD. Also I studied different techniques of graphic, as etching, intaglio silk screen, lithograph, and experimental drawing at the Escuela de Artes Plasticas of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, in San Juan Puerto Rico.

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All works published here are copyright 1987-2006

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Felix Berroa

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Tel. 678-355-1473.