Having trouble viewing this newsletter? Click here No. 33. Voice From the Studio. The Newsletter of The Art of Félix Berroa. Atlanta, Georgia, November - December, 2009 In This Issue: 1- A Few Words for this Holyday Season. 2- Exhibition in Koko Gallery. 3- Most Recent Two Paintings.     To open this Newsletter on the web clik here. Para abrir este email en el internet apriete aqui.     1- A few words on this holiday season. This 2009 exhibition period ended. Now comes the time to relax and enjoy the holiday. For some people, these weeks are a time of spiritual retreat, a good family dinner, mailing Christmas cards, a pine tree decorated with white or colored lights, lot of cristal balls and other decorative pieces associated with the season, as nuckcrakers, angels, etc..., where you place your Christmas presents for the adults and toys for children -by Santa Claus-. Also songs in the air as "Gingle Bell" and other "tin tin tin, tin tin tin ,..." Super exciting days and spiritual encounter with God and friends. For others, are moments of year-end joyousness, lot of food, roasted pork, baked chicken or turkey, "pasteles en hojas'' (meat pastries wrapped up with plantain leaf), "Russian salad", rum, wine, sweet-anise, festive uproar, including popular secular music and dance. Also, children anxiously await for the Three Kings Day (January 6), for their toys. Whatever be your custom way to end the year, depending on your ethnic background, my most sincere wishes for these holidays. Several projects are waiting for me in the creative task, for the start of exhibitions of late March or early April 2010. Meanwhile, you can appreciate and acquire my art in an exhibition at Koko Gallery all November, with opening in the 7th, 2009. 6:30 - 11:00pm. Also, if you live in the Surroundings of Hogansville, GA, visit Clemens Art and Books, to see a few of my works. _____________________________________________________________________________ Este periodo de exhibiciones 2009 finaliza. Llega ahora el tiempo para relajarse y disfrutar de las festividades de fin de año. Para algunos, esas semanas son momentos de recogimiento espiritual, una buena cena familiar, envios de tarjetas navideñas, un arbolito de pino decorado con luces blancas o de colores, muchas bolas de cristal y otras piezas decorativas relacionadas con la epoca, como Nuckcrakers, angeles, etc., donde se colocan los regalos de Navidad -por Santa Claus-. Tambien de canciones como "Gingle Bell" y otros "tin tin tin, tin tin tin,..." Unos dias super emocionantes y de reencuentro espiritual con Dios y los allegados. Para otros, son momentos de gozadera de fin de año. De mucha comida, lechon azado, pollo o pavo horneado, "pasteles en Hojas", empanadas de carne, de "ensalada rusa", ron, vino, anis confite, alboroto festivo, que incluye musica secular popular y baile. De regalos para los niños en el dia de Reyes (Enero 6), que ansiosos esperan ese dia. Sea cual sea sus costumbres para este fin de año, dependiendo du sus origenes etnicos, mis mas sinceros deseos para estos dias festivos. Varios proyectos me esperan en la faena creativa, que no mencionare, porque seran sorpesa para el inicio de exhibiciones que comienzan a finales de Marzo o principio de Abril del 2010. Mientra tanto, pueden apreciar o adquirir mi arte este Noviembre 2009 en una exposicion de fin de año en la Koko Gallery.   Contact: Omaira Berroa, felbere@hotmail.com, fel_be@msn.com. Tel. 678-355-1473.   If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, tell us replying this email. Also, if you doesn't receive this Newsletter through our "emails list", sign in. Sending us you email. Also, if you wants any information about his work or any specific work, write us to one of his two emails or call.

Next Exhibitions:

1- November 7 -, 30, 2009: Koko Gallery. 942 Alpharetta Street, Historic Roswell, Georgia. Tel. 678-205-4340.

2. koko gallery reopening exhibition.   "BLOWING HOPE 2". To be Exhibit in the Next Two Arts Festivals. -Click the image to enlarge.- Ritual to Fertilize a Woman. Acrylic and oil on canvas. 50x79 inch. Price; 9000.00     Nude. Oil on canvas. 40x30 inches. 2009. Price; 1200.00       Also, Prints of Paintings and Photo-Collages. 14x18 inch: 40.00. 18x24 inch: 80.00. Mediodia-Salto del Mico Chicamocha River 2 Chicamocha River 1 Koko Gallery, located in 942 Alpharetta Street, in historic Roswell (GA 30075), reopen its doors this Saturday, November 7. Koko Gallery is next to the well know Ford Smith Gallery. Reopening celebration will start at 6:00pm to 11:00pm. Meet me there! I will exhibit there 8 paintings of my 2007, 2008 and 2009 series. Bellow, two of those paintings. "Passages for Two Divas". Mixed technique assemblage: Acrylic, oil, enamel, canvas, wood. 40x60 inch. 2009. Price: 3600.00. "Hidden Girl". Mixed technique assemblage: Acrylic, oil, enamel, canvas, masonite, wood. 2009. 24x43.5 inch. Price: 2000.00.   3- My most recent two paintings. (Mas Recientes Dos Trabajos). "Plegaria" (Prayer). Acrylic and oil on canvas. 44x40 inch. 2009.Price: 3000.00. Detail for "Plegaria". Detail for "Destino". "Destino" (Destiny). Acrylic and oil on canvas. 39x39 inch. 2009.Price: 2800.00. These paintings will be available in my study only for previous customers. Estas dos pinturas estaran disponible en mi estudio solamente para coleccionistas que ya me han comprado anteriormente. 1976 Drawing 1977 Drawing At the end of my academic studies (1978) in the National School of Fine Arts in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, my work underwent a stylistic transition, from social realism to expressionism. Although I developed stylistic changes, the subject was the same: social concerns. Nowadays, honoring those days of youth (1970´s), with all the economic crisis we live today, work related, could not miss: "Prayer". Prayers with open raised arms to the "Divine Child" (the "Divine Child" is worshiped with particular attention in Colombia), for a better financial luck. Sometimes the crisis is so acute that not even the prayers bring answers, and some people, already exhausted, down and cross their arms (see detail of "Plegaria). "Destino", a work dedicated to the different directions that youth choose. Some leave school early and work in factories and retail bussiness, to join the consumption system and have fun, or for responsability of family commitments (The one who walks into the factory). Others within the same pattern, see no future in their countries, so pack the bags and migrate to others with greater resources (Woman with luggage). Surprising number of youths involved in street life, a situation which causes serious social crisis in a country (The young man walking to the right with his cap backwards). A few percent of those young people, sacrificing a bit more and continued their studies to become skilled technicians and professionals. The close-up large face is the student who walks into knowledge, the university. The additional detail of the eye that reflects, in a way of brightness, a face with "graduate cap" , is a symbol of his goal.   Spanish: A finales de mis estudios academicos (1978) en la Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes en Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana, mis trabajos sufrieron una transicion estilistica, del realismo social, al expresionismo. Aunque en lo estilistico se desarrollaron cambios, la tematica fue la misma: preocupaciones sociales. Hoy dia, haciendo honor a esos tiempos de juventud (1970´s), con toda la crisis economica que vivimos, un trabajo relacionado, no podia faltar: "Plegaria". Plegarias con brazos levanados y abiertos al "Divino Niño" (adorado con especial atencion en Colombia), por una mejor suerte financiera. A veces, la crisis es tan aguda, que ni las plegarias traen respuestas, por lo que algunos, ya rendidos, bajan y cruzan los brazos. "Destino": un trabajo dedicado a las diferentes direcciones que la juventud elije. Algunos abandonan los estudios para concentrarse en producir dinero, para incorporarse temprano al sistema de consumo y divertirse o compromisos tempranos de familia (El que camina hacia la fabrica). Otros, dentro de ese mismo patron, no ven futuro en sus paises, por lo que empacan las maletas y emigran a paises de mayores recursos (La mujer con las maletas). Sorprendente numero de jovenes se dedican a la vida callejera, situacion que causa serias crisis sociales en un pais (el joven que camina hacia la derecha con la gorra hacia atras). Un porciento mas reducido, se sacrifica un poco mas y continua sus estudios hasta transformarse en tecnicos especializados y profesionales. La cara grande en primer plano es la del estudiante que camina hacia el conocimiento, la universidad. El detalle que muestra un ojo que refleja a manera de brillo, una cara con su "birrete" de graduado, simbolo de su aspiracion.     Newsletter created and copyright by Felix Berroa, November 2009.     :

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