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Painting, Mixed Media on Stone
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My work is a reflection of the contrasts in my life, divided and integrated for the last years of my life in the United States, but with its origins in Cuba, where I was born and raised. In my painting, I merge my history as an Afro-Cuban and Modern dance performer with my present as a visual artist. From Cuba, I incorporate Afro-Cuban spirituality, the rural landscapes of eastern Cuba, my childhood, and my memories of growing up in a Communist island. From my present world in the US, I include the modern cityscape and technology, elements that in my work contain a toned down violence that I express in a naïve, although sometimes grotesque, manner. I discreetly use representations of Afro-Cuban elements, combined with images of control, subjugation and destruction that result in the interplay in power relations, whereby the bases of life and death, survival and extinction are managed. At times I prefer to free myself from the portrayal of objects and instead try to evoke, through the aesthetic sense, the energies of Afro-Cuban deities. Still at other times I simply choose to record my emotions and feelings of the moment without any conscious self-censorship. I’m interested in making work that mirrors my experience as an Afro-Cuban immigrant in transition, and represent the disparity and integration that is born from the intensity of rupture and being re-born.
2012
Mixed Media on Stone
One-of-a-kind Artwork
93 W x 40 H x 2 D in
Not Framed
Not applicable
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I am a Professional dancer in the Afro-Cuban and Haitian tradition, Popular Latin dances and Modern dance. I graduated from the National School of the Arts in Havana Cuba in 1994 where I obtained a Technical degree as a certified Dance Professor and Professional dancer. In 1993, I trained and performed for one year with the Cuban National Folkloric Company and Danza Contemporanea de Cuba. I was also a soloist for five years with the professional touring company Cutumba: Ballet Folklorico Afro-Cubano, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Following, My professional performing experience included dancing with the Modern dance Company OCD/San Francisco from 2001 to 2003. Along with this company, I toured places such as The Joyce Theater in New York, NY, The Getty Museum Concert Series, Lose Angeles, CA, Cal State LA, Cal State Monterey Bay and Kentucky Center for the Arts.. In addition, My list of guest performances includes being a principal dancer and guest artist for the Warner Brothers film The Matrix Reloaded. In 1999, I was a guest soloist in the Retrospective of Cuban dance Performance, La Pena, Berkeley, CA and Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA. Also, I was a guest dancer for "Bravura!" with The Blankenship Ballet Company, Riverside, California, in 2003. I am is skilled in teaching modern dance, folkloric dance, popular dance, and percussion and I shared my knowledge during master classes at Portland State University, University of Hawaii, University of Florida, and Santa Clara University. I also have choreographed for Stanford University. I am also known as a Visual Artist. I presented an art exhibition in ODC Gallery and Palace of Fine Arts, both located in San Francisco, SWCCD, Pulse Gallery, and others. I currently teach at Palomar College and A Time to Dance Performing Art Studio in North Park, San Diego.
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