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Carlos Gamez de Francisco
Fashion Trends III

2022

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The figurative surrealistic paintings of Carlos Gamez de Francisco are heavily influenced by his Cuban upbringing in a Russian governed academia setting. This presence exposed Francisco to the world of figurative arts while censoring contemporary art. His near-obsession with the past and storytelling translates into his work, which provides an escape from reality while creating an illusory world. This original surrealist painting on paper measures 16.75-inches high by 13.5-inches wide. The paper features deckled edges. The artwork measures 12-inches high by 9-inches wide and is framed in a gold aluminum frame. The size and price include the frame. It is wired, and ready to hang. Free local Los Angeles delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and worldwide shipping available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included with this one-of-kind work. Gamez de Francisco received his BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally as well as shown in many private and public collections including the 21c Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Cubaocho Museum in Miami, Florida. Francisco has received numerous awards and commissions including a mural for Google. REPRESENTATION Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, USA SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Forbidden Garden, The Grogan Gallery, Houston, TX Femme Fuerte, Monica Graham Fine Art, Carmel, CA Gilded Age Fashion, Karen Anderer Fine Art, Lancaster, PA New Works, Portland Art Gallery, Portland, ME Bloom, Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2021 The Figurative Filter, Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Six Shades of Sunlight, Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH New Wok, Portland Art Gallery, Portland, Maine New Work, CV Art and Frame, Zionsville, IN 2020 Dancing on the Couch, Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Keeneland Couture, New Editions Gallery, Lexington, KY Personality Plus, Kore Gallery, Louisville, KY 2019 New Works, Weinberger Fine Art, Kansas City, MO “Modern Nobility”, Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH “Specimen Lost in a Tropical Island”, New Editions Gallery, Lexington, KY 2018 “An Uncommon Vision: Equines, Archetypes, and Allegories”, New Editions Gallery, Lexington, KY “The Power of the Powerless”. Moremen Moloney Contemporary, Louisville, KY 2017 New Work. Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY “FAQ’s 1789-1987”. Moremen Moloney Contemporary, Louisville, KY 2015 “Troubling Beauty”. 21c Museum, Bentonville, AR 2014 “Troubling Beauty”. 21c Museum, Louisville, KY “Size Matters”. The Green Building Gallery, Louisville, KY “Cactus Petals, Fluctuating Asymmetry, and Crimes of Passion”. Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN 2013 “Pétalos de Cactus, Fluctuaciones Asimétricas, y Crimen Pasional”. Visual Art Association, Holguín, Cuba 2012 “Radical Genealogy: The Decline of Dauphins, Courtesans and Hounds". Hardcore Art Contemporary Space, Miami, FL “Trio”. Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH “Black Portraits of Pomegranate Eaters”. Swanson Contemporary, Louisville, KY 2011 “Cuban Now” 21C Museum, Louisville, KY 2010 “The Last Words of Louis XVI” Muhammad Ali Museum, Louisville, KY 2009 “Fungus for Parry-Rombeg”. Les Arts Gallery, Balearic Islands. Spain 2008 “The Last Little Vincent and Jean Puy”. Colonial Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba 2006 “The Hole of the Mirror”. Ibero-American House, Holguín, Cuba SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022 Art Market San Francisco, Slate Contemporary, Oakland, CA Celebrating Contemporary Latinx Artists, Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Alluring Beauty, Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Collective Imagination: Art Right Now, Chauvet Art, Nashville, TN Garden Party, New Editions Gallery, Lexington, KY2021 SCOPE Art Fair, The CAMP Gallery, Miami, FL Affordable Art Fair NYC, Artplex Gallery, NY Figuratively Speaking, New Editions Gallery, Lexington, KY Supernova, The Grogan Gallery, Houston, TX Face It, Jack Rabbit Gallery, Houston, TX Afterimage; Sensations of Colors, Nashville, TN Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Bloom, Bev’s Fine Art, Raleigh, NC 2020 Mix it Up! New Editions Gallery, Lexington, KY Moscow International Foto Awards Winner’s Exhibition, Moscow, Russia 2019 Dress Up, Speak Up: Regalia and Resistance, 21c Museum, Cincinnati, OH Mix it Up! New Editions Gallery, Lexington, KY “Endless Summer”, Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2018 46 International Art Exhibition, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, TX PHOTO’ 18. Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY “Keep your Clothes ON”, New Editions Gallery, Lexington, KY 30th Annual Decatur Arts Festival, Decatur Arts Alliance, Decatur, GA 2018 Art at the Center Juried Exhibition, Overland Park, KS “Merton Among Us”, 849 Gallery, KyCAD, Louisville, KY 2017 45th Mid-States Craft Exhibition, Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN “Mistrz i morze”, ArtGalle Galeria, Szczecin, Poland 2016 Context Art Miami, Ai Bo Gallery, Miami, FL. Cubaocho Museum & Performing Arts Center, Miami, FL “Cuban Fried Chicken”, MAC Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL “Cuban Art: Influence and Articulation”. Moremen Moloney Contemporary, Louisville, KY “Navigate”, 1619 Flux Art + Activism, Louisville, KY 2015 New Blood Festival, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL Art Southhampton, Glenn Aber Contemporary, NY 2014 “Latin Views 2014”. Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery, Groton, Connecticut “Miami New Media Festival 2014”. The Chill Concept. Miami, FL Art Hamptons, NY, Glenn Aber Contemporary Art Palm Beach, FL, Glenn Aber Contemporary 2013 “NSHMBA Louisville Fundraising & Awards Gala”. NSHMBA, Louisville, KY “Dis-semblance: Projecting and Perceiving Identity”. 21c Museum, Cincinnati, OH “Acuarelas III”. Lombillo Palace, Havana, Cuba 2012 Scope -Art Basel, Miami, Hardcore Art Contemporary Space. “Latin Views”. Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery, Groton, Connecticut 2011 “Mada New Media Festival’11”. Hardcore Art Contemporary Space, Miami, FL “Contemporary Realism”. Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH “Acuerelas II”. Lombillo Palace, Havana, Cuba 2010 “Fronteras Desdibujadas” Periquera Colonial Museum, Holguin, Cuba "EKLEKTICITY." George Rodez Gallery, Miami, FL 2009 “Drove my wife crazy”. Pyro Gallery, Louisville, KY 2008 “Cuban Artists”. Rome, Italy ”Dachshund, a Legend”. Humboldt professorship, University of Havana. Havana, Cuba AWARDS 2021 Platinum Winner 2021, Muse Photography Awards, NY Fischer Award, Louisville Visual Art, Louisville, KY Honorable Mention, 2020 International Photography Awards, Los Angeles, CA Honorable Mention, 2020 Prix de la Photographie de Paris, Paris, France Honorable Mention, Moscow International Photo Awards, Moscow, Russia Honorable Mention, International Juried Photography Exhibition, Praxis Photo Arts Center, MN Nominee, Fine Art Photography Awards, London, UK 2020 Gold Award, 2020 Tokyo International Foto Awards, Tokyo, Japan Honorable Mention, 2020 International Photography Awards, Los Angeles, CA Honorable Mention, 2020 Prix de la Photographie de Paris, France Fine Art Photographer of the Year, 2020 Moscow International Photo Awards, Moscow, Russia Gold Award, 2020 Moscow International Photo Awards, Moscow, Russia Gold Award, 2020 Moscow International Photo Awards, Moscow, Russia Honorable Mention, International Color Awards, Beverly Hills, CA 2019 Honorable Mention, 2019 Tokyo International Photo Awards, Tokyo, Japan Bronze Award, 2019 Moscow International Photo Awards, Moscow, Russia 2018 Honorable Mention, 30th Annual Decatur Arts Festival, Decatur, GA 2017 Museum Guild Purchase Award, Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN 2016 Ox Bow Merit Scholarship, Ox Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI Capital Professional Development Program, 21c Museum, Louisville, KY 2015 SAIC Distinguished Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL SAIC Grants, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Kurtich Travel Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2012 Key to the City of Louisville by Mayor Greg Fischer, Louisville, KY 2011 Norman Kohlepp Merit Awards. Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, KY 2010 Capital Professional Development Program, 21c Museum, Louisville. 2009 “Dreammakers” Artist in Residence. Muhammad Ali Center, Louisville, KY 2008 City Award. Visual Art Association, Holguín, Cuba 2007 Best Performance. XXI Provincial Visual Art Exhibition, Holguín, Cuba 2006 Exhibit of Illustrated Poetry. Holguin Gallery, Holguin, Cuba COLLECTIONS Maker’s Mark Distillery, KY Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN 21C Museum, Louisville, KY Fashion Resource Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Cuba Ocho Museum & Performing Art Center, Miami, FL Polanco’s Collection, Havana, Cuba Muhammad Ali Museum, Louisville, KY La Periquera Museum, Holguin, Cuba Gamez de Francisco´s works are also in private collections in the United States, Spain, Luxembourg, Ecuador, Italy, Argentina, Costa Rica, and Mexico. PUBLIC PROJECTS 2020 Horse Trilogy commissioned by Breeder’s Cup, Maker’s Mark, and Keeneland, Lexington, KY 2019 Mural commissioned by Origin Lexington Hotel, Lexington, KY 2017 Mural commissioned by Google and LVA, Louisville, KY 2012 La Boca del Lobo International Film Festival, Madrid, Spain 2010 “3Rd Annual KY Short Film & Video Showcase”. 21C Museum, Louisville, KY 2007 VII National Festival of Audiovisual “By First Time”, Holguin, Cuba TV & FILM How I Met Your Father
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