Jövo Vazquez-Figueroa

Caracas, Venezuela 1970
Artist Stament:
My work is about the nature of learning and teaching through art, and particularly about the methods I need to use to acquire new knowledge. Materials such as bitumen, crude oil, glass, eraser clay, photographs, among others, are crucial to my work and the ideas that drive it. I manipulate these materials to create works based on clear ideas.
Usually, I use strategies of deconstruction and subtraction to open up the subject matter and then use the materials to bestow those qualities that express most clearly the meaning of the work so it is understood at a non-rational level.
Basically, I play. I connect many variables in what it seems to me as a nonlinear method and in this Play I get to fix new knowledge. I “do” and then I “Undo” .
I have been greatly influenced by Raushcembarg and his Erased De Kooning as what I consider one of the most radical acts of art of the 20th century. His gesture, has opened up a method for me to analyze subject matter... as japer Johns coined: by " additive subtraction"

slade school of painting at ucl - london. 2002
new york studio school - nyc. 1998-02
academia de arte san alejandro - cuba.97-98
bfa emerson college - boston. 90-93

Tony Vazquez-Figueroa (Jose Antonio Vazquez-Figueroa) Caracas, Venezuela, 1970.

Selected group exhibits
2016
Inventory/Takes - The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center - NY. NY. USA.
Arte en Mayo - Museo de Arte Moderno de Guatemala - Guatemala.
Works on Paper National Exhibition - Long Island Beach Foundation - Long Beach, N.J. USA.
2015
Rozas-Brotran Fundation Exhibition - AG Gallery/ Northern Trust Bank. Miami, Fl. USA.
Works on Paper National Exhibition - Long Island Beach Foundation - Long Beach, N.J. USA.
Color of Latin - Gyeongnam Art Museum - Soul, Korea
2014
63rd. Annual All Florida Juried Exhibition Boca Museum - Boca Museum, FL. USA
Venezuela/Ukraine: Unexpected Conversation - Black Square Gallery - Miami, FL. USA
Urbanism - Coral Gables Museum - Miami, FL. USA.
Paper Work Project - Black Square Gallery - Miami, FL. USA.
2013
Summer Reading - Black Square Gallery - Miami, FL. USA.
Dessine Moi - Galerie 208 - Paris, France
2012
Acquired - The Bakehouse Art Complex - Miami, FL. USA.
Tridimensionnel - Galerie 208 - Paris, France
2011
Utilitaria- Galería Mad - Caracas, Venezuela
Sauvages - JG pPatform Gallery - Miami.
2010
65 salón Michelena - Valencia, Venezuela.
Identidades - Galería MAD - Carac...