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Tony BecharaPuerto Rican Abstract Geometric Op Art Silkscreen Lithograph Kinetic Artc.1979
c.1979
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Color Grid. Ziggurat form. Hand signed and numbered silkscreen.
Tony Bechara, Artist born in Puerto Rico in 1942. Painter, printmaker. Bechara attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and the School of Jurisprudence and Diplomacy at that same university. He spent one year at the Sorbonne in Paris and, finally, entered New York University. Later, he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Since 1977 he has taken part in numerous group and solo exhibits in Puerto Rico, the United States, Europe, and Latin America. An acrylic painter known for pointillism, meaning many vibrant, mulit-colored small dots and grids, Tony Bechara is also an appointee of Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City to the City's Latin Media and Entertainment Commission, whose purpose is to promote Latin American media culture. Bechara is also Chairman of the Board of El Museo del Barrio, New York's only Latino museum dedicated to Puerto Rican, Caribbean and Latin American art.
In 2006 he was awarded first prize by the California Museum of Latin American Art. His conceptual interest, in his own words, centers on the dynamics of color and the expressive possibilities of Pointillism and abstract geometry. His work is related to “automatic painting” and the uncontrolled gestures of Dada artists such as Hans Jean Arp and Surrealist such as Andre Masson. This also bears similarities albeit more formally geometric to mexican Modernist Pedro Friedeberg.
Each painting is constructed in a predetermined number of colors, distributed systematically but applied at random as countless dots and daubs. The general pattern that results is, then, unpredictable.
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1980 Apollon Galerie Die Insel, Munich, Germany
1980 Cayman Gallery, New York City (Graphics)
1980 Bild & Rahmen Gallery, Munich Germany (Graphics)
1982 Gallery Yves Arman, New York City
1984 Georgetown Artists Space, Washington, D.C.
1985 Museo del Barrio, New York City
1986 Hubert Humphrey Building, Main Gallery, Department of Education, Washington, D.C.
1989 Alternative Museum, New York City
1993 Artist Space, New York City
2006 Latincollector, NYC
2006 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York City
2006 Ramis Barquet Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1977 "Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
1976 "Magnet; New York", Center for Inter-American Relations, New York City
1978 "Resurgence '78", El Barrio Museum, New York City
1978 "Bridges", Henry Street Settlement House, New York City
1979 "Five New Painters", Soho Center for Visual Arts, New York City
1979 "Criss-Cross Patterns", Fine Arts Center, Boulder Colorado
1979 "Fifteen New Talents", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut
1979 "Latin American Painters", Queens Museum, New York City
1980 "Islamic Allusions", Alternative Museum, New York City, A.Kingsley, Curator
AWARDS
National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship, 1980
MOLAA Art Prize, Museum of Latin American Art, 2006
Latinos of the Year, El Diario La Prensa, November 1, 2006
COLLECTIONS
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Albright Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania
El Barrio Museum, New York City
Harlem Art Collection, New York State Office Building, New York City
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mobil Corporation
Owens Corning Fiberglass Corporation, Toledo, Ohio
Chermayeff & Geismar Associates, Inc., New York City
The Brodsky Organization, NYC
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
Art Across the Park, Central Park, N.Y.C. Dept. of Cultural Affairs, 1982
Mural, Cooper Square Development Corporation, New York City 1988
- Creator:Tony Bechara (1942, Puerto Rican)
- Creation Year:c.1979
- Dimensions:Height: 29.75 in (75.57 cm)Width: 22.25 in (56.52 cm)
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- Condition:good. minor wear. please see photos.
- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38214438092
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