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Artist Statement:
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Artist Exhibitions:
Recent Solo, Group exhibits
and publications
January 2009 Artist
Reception- Ico Gallery, New
York "Metamorphosis"
October 2008 Village of
Freeport Celebration of
Hispanic Heritage Month
October 16th 2008 Freeport
High School Hispanic Day
Celebration
June 14th 2008 Artist
Reception LRS Gallery
Rockville Centre N.Y. “Rebirth
of Consciousness”
June 1st...
Further Information
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
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Luis Velasquez Biography:
| Biographical information for Luis Velasquez can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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32
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
Catholic |
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| Education |
Self Taught |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
My first Love is Art so pretty much everything revolves around that, I like photographing Nature, Listening to just about every type of music even from different countries. Most of all my main interest is to always keep my artwork evolving. |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Surrealism - (1924 - 1955)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Jeremy Lipking
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| Favorite Work of Art |
M. Duchamp "Nude Descending Staircase"2
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
I would have to say my family, I come from a very rich foundation of artist's, my uncle and two cousins being painters in Colombia,one cousin is a sculptor,my uncles here in the states are folklore musicians,and my mom is a published poet. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
In my youth I drew many sketches but there was one in particular that when I finished it, I realized I did'nt understand where it came from, and ever since then I have been on this path as an Artist. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Hello my name Luis Carlos Velasquez I'm 32 years old and a Long Island native with Colombian roots.I grew up in Freeport N.Y. and graduated from Freeport High School, also attending class at Nassau Community College and at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York. I later enlisted in the U.S.Airforce and served as a reserve until 2006.
I have been drawing since a very young age and I'm a compulsive sketcher. I save every sketch even if its on a napkin or whatever and go back to them for inspiration in my larger more elaborate work. These particular pieces are a study of my fascination with the female form and the larger cat species. I believe my art to be a manifestation of a visual meditation at that particular point in time.
In 2008 I joined Ikarus Gallery and Cultural program of Long Island I am also a member of the Long Beach art League, and a member of Long Island Art Council. I post every event and show I do on my blog www.blogspotluisart.blogspot.com along with other work I currently have.
Thank you for reading and taking an interest in my Art. It is an Honor to be among so many talented artist.
Artist Review-
We can begin to look at Luis Velasquez’ art from two vantage points that are perhaps incommensurable, or at least incommensurable from a single rigid outlook, and this is perhaps what is interesting about his artworks. On one hand, there are the figurative components to his paintings which – with flourishes here and there, say the expressionistic colors of “Sleepless Dream” or the cutout quality of the woman in “Vigil in Unity” – very much come out of a long tradition, and thus have ties that go back hundreds of years. The figurative elements of his works, the women and the cats, establish themes that tentacle their way backwards through romanticism and primitivism.
At the same time, and within each artwork, there is a facet of abstractness that incongruously plays off of the figurative forms though. It is a difficult proposition to attempt to force these two aspects into unity with each other, though they certainly are in communion. The figurative elements anchor Velasquez’ work in a way that allows the free-form or essentially non-form elements to wind their way around vine like throughout the paintings. Whether this is a conscious ecological element that in the end reinforces the naturalness of the subjects or whether they indeed stand apart from that nature is perhaps undecidable.
-Andrew Beckerman
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