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Artist Statement:
Premios / Awards
1967-68
GRANT , Casa del
Arte, San Juan, to
study/travel
throughout Europe
and North Africa
1972
Guggenheim GRANT in
painting, New York, NY
1977
GRANT , Washington
Review of the Arts,
for best poster
design of the year
1980 SENIOR GRANT for Work
Accomplished,
National Endowment
for the Arts,Washington D.C.
1990
AWARD given for
“Year’s Best Solo Show”,
“Iconos de Nuestra
Historia”, International Art
Critics
Association (IACA), member of
UNESCO
1999
HOMAGE for “ Best
Exhibition of the Year” and “
Best
Retrospective Solo
Exhibition of the Year”,
International
Art Critics
Association (IACA), member of
UNESCO
2007
SPECIAL AWARD
given for
“ Best of the Year:
60 Year Retropective
Exhibition”,
International Art
Critics Association,(IACA),
member of
UNESCO
2011
HOMAGE for his
contribution to Latin American
Art and
the adquisition of
two of his masterpieces for
the
permanent
collection of Museum of Fine
Arts Houston,
June 2011
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Artist Exhibitions:
Exhibiciones Individuales /
Solo Exhibitions
1958 Maxwell Galleries, San
Francisco, California
1959 Galería Campeche, San
Juan, Puerto Rico
1962 Instituto de Cultura
Puertorriqueña, San Juan,
Puerto Rico
1964 Museo de Historia,
Antrología y Arte,
Universidad de
Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río
Piedras,
Puerto Rico
1966 Instituto de ...
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Artist Reviews:
For detailed information:
search for artist's book
"Domingo, Destellos del Yo"
(Spanish/English Translation),
Second Edition, 2004.
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/a
rtattack/2011/06/mfah_acquires_
domingo_garcias.php...
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Collections:
For detailed information:
search for artist's book
titled: "Domingo, Destellos
del Yo" (Spanish/English
Translation), Second Edition,
2004....
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Commissions:
For detailed information:
search for artist's book
"Domingo, Destellos del Yo"
(Spanish/English Translation),
Second Edition, 2004....
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Domingo Garcia Biography:
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Born in Coamo, Puerto Rico in 1932, García is a master painter and printmaker. He studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design in New York and with William Locke in London.
In 1959 he founded the Campeche Workshop and Gallery in San Juan, where for nine years he taught painting, drawing and silkscreen. In the 1950s, when Puerto Rican painting was dominated by social realism, he was rare in developing an expressionist style with the aim of expressing a subjective reality.
In the '70s he worked on a series of abstract silkscreens that experimented with form and color.
He has also used, in both paintings and silkscreens, figurative subject-matter as a point of departure for the exploration and communication of his psychological and emotional state, with self-portra its playing a significant role.In 1998-1999 the Contemporary Art Museum of Puerto Rico held a retrospective exhibit titled 'Domingo García: 50 Years - Selected Works' of his paintings and sculptures done from the '40s to the '90s as a tribute to this Latin American master whose work figures in numerous private and public collections on the island and abroad.In 2007, The artist had his 60 Year Retrospective Exhibition at the distinguished Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan. In 2011, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston awarded the Artist for his Work Accomplished and Contribution to the Arts.
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