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

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My First 2007 Big Outdoor show

"2007 Barefoot in the Park Fine Arts Festival".

21 y 22 de Abril, 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.

Esta pintura y otras serán exhibidas en el festival Barefoot in the Park este fin de semana.

Los invito a que se encuentren conmigo en este gran festival de las artes plasticas en Duluth, Georgia. Es mi primer gran outdoor festival de este año 2007. Los trabajos a ser exhibidos serán una combinación de un grupo de los creados en los primeros meses de este año y los de Septiembre y Octubre del 2006.

Las fotos de trabajos 2006-2007 aquí son algunos de los trabajos a ser exhibidos .

Inman Park Festival

El segundo gran show serás el ultimo fin de semana de este mes, Abril 28, 29 2007, el de Inman park, en la ciudad de Atlanta. Allí llevare también algunas sorpresas de trabajos nuevos. Los creados con enamel sobre masonite. Yo comencé a trabajar con pintura enamel y lacker cuando tenia unos 16 años de edad. En 1986 continué experimentando con estos medios sobre madera. Eran pequeñas esculturas y objetos como ensamblajes de objetos de madera usados.

(Porque siempre publico algunos "flashback" in my art? Son especialmente para Atlanta, Georgia, donde me mude no hace mucho tiempo. Algunas personas, desconociendo los antecedentes de un artista tienden a calificarlo o compararlo erróneamente.

"Man History under the god Eye". 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.

"Historia de la Humanidad Bajo los Ojos de Dios" Oleo sobre playwood. Esta obra se encuentra en muy mal estado en la oficina de mi hermano en Santo domingo, RD, al ser atacado por la humedad a través del tiempo.

Playwood es una combinación de varias capas delgadas de maderas pegadas con un resistente pegamento. Cada una de las capa se pega cruzando las fibras, lo que le hace fuerte para quebrarse o doblarse. sin embargo. a pesar de esas características positivas, tiene su debilidad. En continua humedad las capas tienen a separarse o rajarse. Ante la realidad de este trabajo yo sustituí el playwood por masonite que tiene una consistencia mucho mas fuerte. La unica debilidad del masonite que he encontrado es que en calor fuerte sobre los 100 grados puede curvarse en el medio ligeramente. El masonite es tan fuerte que cuesta mucho trabajo cortarlo, aun con cierra electrica.

Actualmente tengo dos estudios. Uno para los trabajos en acrylicos y oleos y otro para los de enamel y barnizar. En la foto abajo pueden ver la acion creativa con enamel sobre material duro, como es la madera y el 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.

Previo Boletin No. 17, Abril 2007.

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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Tel. 678-355-1473.