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Period: Early 2000s
Future (Black & White)(50 Years, Hip Hop, Rap, Iconic, Artist, Musician, Rapper)
By Agent X
Located in Kansas City, MO
Agent X
Future (Black & White) (50 Years, Hip Hop, Rap, Iconic, Artist, Musician, Rapper, Anniversary, Legend, Pop Art)
Archival Pigment Print with Archival Inks on 240 gsm Hahnemühle Paper
2023
Size: 30x30in
Edition: 250
Signed, dated and numbered by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1863
*Pricing for a Digital Unique Original on Canvas (50x50in) available upon request
Tags: 50 Years, Hip Hop, Rap, Iconic, Artist, Musician, Rapper, Anniversary, Legend, Pop Art, Break Dance...
Category
Pop Art Early 2000s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
Future (Gold) (50 Years, Hip Hop, Rap, Iconic, Artist, Musician, Rapper)
By Agent X
Located in Kansas City, MO
Agent X
Future (Gold) (50 Years, Hip Hop, Rap, Iconic, Artist, Musician, Rapper, Anniversary, Legend, Pop Art)
Archival Pigment Print with Archival Inks on 240 gsm Hahnemühle Paper
2...
Category
Pop Art Early 2000s Art
Materials
Digital, Archival Paper
Reclining Woman - Lithograph - 2007
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Reclining Woman is a beautiful lithograph from the portfolio " Erotica " by Egon Schiele.
It is a reproduction of the homonym black crayon drawing, a self-portrait realized by the...
Category
Modern Early 2000s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Lauryn Hill (Pink) (50 Years, Hip Hop, Rap, Iconic, Female Artist, Musician
By Agent X
Located in Kansas City, MO
Agent X
Lauryn Hill (Pink) (50 Years, Hip Hop, Rap, Iconic, Artist, Musician, Rapper, Anniversary, Legend, Pop Art)
Archival Pigment Print with Archival Inks on 240 gsm Hahnemühle Pa...
Category
Pop Art Early 2000s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
Iceberg I - Antarctica
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 10
More sizes on request
Sebastian Copeland is considered a photographer "who has created works of outstanding artistic quality and conveys messages of urgent glo...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dawn at Merzouga (L'Aurore a Merzouga) - Abstract landscape oil painting
Located in East Quogue, NY
Stunning signed abstract landscape painting by Moroccan artist Wafaa Mezouar. Acrylic paint and gold leaf on canvas.
Size 52 x 48 inches. Offered unframed,
Exhibitions include: C...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Nude Girl With Raised Arms - Lithograph - 2007
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Girl With Raised Arms is a lithograph from the portfolio " Erotica " after Egon Schiele.
It is a reproduction of the homonym pencil drawing realized by the Austrian master ...
Category
Modern Early 2000s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Old House, July
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Wonderful pastoral landscape by well-known third generation St. Petersburg painter, Alexander Kremer. Kremer's paintings are a mix of realism and impressionism in the best tradition...
Category
Impressionist Early 2000s Art
Materials
Oil
Massimo Listri 'Castello di Rivoli'
Located in New York, NY
Castello di Rivoli
2007
Chromogenic print
180 x 225 cm
Edition of 5
Italian, b. 1954, Florence, Italy, based in Florence, Italy
Massimo Listri travels his native Italy and the worl...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
C Print
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized Minis - 'Lady Bird' - signed, loose
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Mini
Lady Bird (Chicks and Chicks) - 2016
signed in front, not mounted.
Archival Color Photographs based on the Polaroid.
Polaroid sized open Editions 1999-2...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Greenland Sky One - N77˚29 W61˚12 - Greenland
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 10
More sizes on request
Sebastian Copeland is considered a photographer "who has created works of outstanding artistic quality and conveys messages of urgent glo...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Oil Painting, Lawrence Kelsey, Central Park, Spring Afternoon
Located in White Plains, NY
'Central Park, Spring Afternoon' 2009 by American artist, Lawrence Kelsey. Oil on panel, 19.5 x 13.5 in. / Handmade gold frame: 24 x 18 in. Depicting a view of Central Park in New Yo...
Category
American Realist Early 2000s Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized Minis - 'Jules and Jim' - signed, loose
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Mini
Jules and Jim (29 Palms, CA) - 2007
signed in front, not mounted.
Digital Color Photographs based on the Polaroids.
Polaroid sized open Editions 1999-2023...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Impact (Wastelands) - 100x100cm, Polaroid, Contemporary, Abstract, Mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Impact - it all began quite simply I was very happy (Wastelands) - 2003
Edition of 5,
100x100cm.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 1189.08.
Mounted...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
Metal
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized Minis - 'Gasoline' - signed, loose
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Mini
Gasoline (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
signed in front, not mounted.
Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid.
Polaroid sized open Editions 1999-20...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized Minis - Airstream (29 Palms) - signed, loose
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Mini
Airstream (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
signed in front, not mounted.
Digital Color Photographs based on the Polaroids.
Polaroid sized open Editions 1999-2023
10....
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized Minis - 'Renée's Dream XI' - signed, loose
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Mini
Renée's Dream XI (Days of Heaven) - 2006
signed in front, not mounted.
Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid.
Polaroid sized open Editions 1999-20...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized Minis - 'Six Shooter' - signed, loose
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Mini
Six Shooter (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005
featuring Austin Tate
signed in front, not mounted.
Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid.
Polaroid s...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
Lambda, Polaroid, Archival Paper, C Print, Color
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized Minis - The Girl IV (The Girl) - signed, loose
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Mini
The Girl IV (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2016
signed in front, not mounted.
Digital Color Photographs based on the Polaroids.
Polaroid sized...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
"Sunset Pt. Lobos, CA" Coastal Landscape in Oil on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
"Sunset Pt. Lobos, CA" Coastal Landscape in Oil on Linen
Oil painting of a coastal landscape by Max Flandorfer (American, b. 1962). Large trees along a path are at the edge of a cliff overlooking the water. The cliff is covered in green grass. Below, there is a dark blue ocean...
Category
American Impressionist Early 2000s Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Untitled Drawing by William O'Brien (INV# NP4044)
Located in Morton Grove, IL
William O'Brien
Untitled Drawing (INV# NP4044)
ink on paper
11.88 x 9" (30 x 23 cm)
2004
signed by artist
provenance - The Nevica Project
Chicago-based artist William J. O’Brien is ...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Art
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
The Red Host - Lithograph - 2007
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
The Red Host is a colored lithograph from the portfolio " Erotica" after Egon Schiele.
It deals with a reproduction of the homonym artwork realized in watercolor and pencil by the Au...
Category
Modern Early 2000s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art outsider art drawing animal color map
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper
Dated and signed on the back
In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object of fascination, only its visual a...
Category
Outsider Art Early 2000s Art
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
0°00 Longitude, 52°32N' Latitude, Hake's Drove - Landscape Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Hake's Drove, British landscape photograph from Richard Heeps series, 36 Minutes in Cambridgeshire.
Richard Heeps was awarded a Millennium Year of the Artist Arts Council Grant to m...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Glasgow Tollbooth Bar
By Harry Benson
Located in Toronto, ON
30" x 40" Unframed
Limited Edition C-Print of 35
Hand Signed by Harry Benson
Category
Early 2000s Art
Materials
C Print
Shaolin Monks Training, Zhengzhou, China, 2004 - Steve McCurry
Located in London, GB
Shaolin Monks Training, Zhengzhou, China, 2004 - Steve McCurry
Signed, affixed with artist's edition label and numbered on reverse
Digital c-type print
20 x 24 inches, edition of 3...
Category
Early 2000s Art
Materials
C Print
Exaltation of Angels
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Signed lower right: "R. Vickery"
Provenance:
Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL
This item is in our New York City warehouse and can be viewed by appointment.
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
Egg Tempera, Panel, Gesso
Piercing my Soul (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Piercing my Soul (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 9577....
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
ITZCHAK TARKAY "PARK CAFE" ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR 22"X15" ON FRANCH ARCHES PAPER
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: TARKAY, ITZCHAK
Title: "PARK CAFE"
Size: 15 X 22 INCHES
Medium: WATERCOLOR ON FRANCH ARCHES PAPER
Edition: ORIGINAL
Description: Hand signed by the artist
The artwork is in e...
Category
Art Deco Early 2000s Art
Materials
Watercolor
Cowboy, Kanab, Utah - American Landscape Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
A Cowboy silhouette, captured in Kanab, the home of many Western Movies. This artwork is typical of one of Richard's signatures, a surreal twist using composition to play with realit...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Behind Palace Walls
Located in Belleville, CA
Bold, Bright, Bursting with Color! Original, One of a Kind Painting, Acrylic on Canvas by Renowned Canadian Artist Jasmin Aldin.
Date of Creation: 2011
Medium: Acrylic on gallery w...
Category
Expressionist Early 2000s Art
Materials
Acrylic
Reclining Nude, Left Leg Raised - Lithograph - 2007
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Reclining Nude, Left Leg Raised is a lithograph from the portfolio " Erotica " after Egon Schiele, realized in 2007.
It is a reproduction of the homonym pencil drawing realized by ...
Category
Modern Early 2000s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Griboedov Canal
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Wonderful pastoral landscape by well-known third generation St. Petersburg painter, Alexander Kremer. Kremer's paintings are a mix of realism and impressionism in the best tradition...
Category
Impressionist Early 2000s Art
Materials
Oil
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized Minis - 'Immaculate Springs' - signed, loose
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Mini
'Sitting Bull' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1996
featuring Udo Kier
signed in front, not mounted.
Digital Color Photographs based on the Polaroid. ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Surprise Mail
Located in Toronto, ON
Image Size: 7" x 5.5" Unframed
Limited Edition Etching of 25
Hand Signed by Mariko Ando
2009
Category
Early 2000s Art
Materials
Etching
Cricket on the Nose Scene - Untitled - from the 29 Palms, CA project
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cricket on the Nose Scene) from the 29 Palms, CA series - 2009
20x24cm,
sold out Edition of 5, This artwork is Artist Proof 1/2.
Archival Print based on the Polaroid.
C...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Garden Lake Landscape with Bridge over Water Signed Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mira Oficijalska (Hungarian)
dated 2007
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 15.5 x 19 inches
canvas: 12 x 16 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and sound con...
Category
Impressionist Early 2000s Art
Materials
Oil
Black and White Photography by Cuban Photographer René Peña, Self Portrait
By Rene Peña
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited Edition Series Photograph. Black and White Photography by Cuban Photographer René Peña, Self Portrait
René Peña (Rene de Jesus Pena Gonzalez) is a self-taught photographer born in Havana, Cuba in 1957. His photography is characterized by stark contrasts, between black and white, subject and background, subject and object. His work often focuses on the duality between human inability to escape institutionalization and human desire for individualism. His interest in contrast is also reflected in his place of residence: Peña currently inhabits the Cerro neighborhood of Cuba which is home to a mostly poor African-Caribbean population, despite having been an enclave of Havana's richest families in the 19th century.
René Peña graduated from the Higher pedagogic Institute of Foreign Languages, University of Havana with a specialization in English in 1983. In the late 1980s he entered the national world of photography and since 1990 became leader of the new trends of Cuban photography, first by handling interiors and domestic situations in modern-day Cuba and later making studies of his own body in aspects such as negritude, sexual ambiguity and the influence of consumerism through self-portraits. He conceives his series on the basis of a conceptual, formal and structurally different analysis of all the parameters established up to the present, going from a brutal expressionism to a distinct homoeroticism, with strong mystic elements, trends from experimental painting, and a certain theatrical dramatization.
He has had important solo shows and participated in group exhibitions in Cuba, the United States, Venezuela, Canada, France and Germany. His work is part of important collections, not only national but also at world level, such as the National Museum of Fine Arts, Cuba; the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba; Reinhard Schultz Collection, Germany; photographic archive Tuscany, Italy; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, USA; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA; collection of the province of Hainuat, Belgium; and Lehigh University Pennsylvania...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Justice League Unlimited Original Production Drawing: Captain Atom
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MEDIUM: Original Production Drawing
IMAGE SIZE: 11" x 8.5"
PRODUCTION: Justice League Unlimited
SKU: IFA10649
ABOUT THE IMAGE: Justice League Unlimited (JLU) is a 2004-2006 American...
Category
Pop Art Early 2000s Art
Materials
Paint, Paper, Pencil
Staraya Ladoga Fog
Located in Santa Fe, NM
STARAYA LADOGA FOG
This hand crafted Giclee print on canvas, 'Staraya Ladoga Fog', by Boris Chetkov, provides the opportunity to own and enjoy a Chetkov masterpiece at a very afford...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Early 2000s Art
Materials
Gesso, Giclée
In a corner of the soul. Colorful expressionist garden with fuchsia flowers
Located in Segovia, ES
Colorful expressionist corner of a garden with fuchsia flowers.
In a corner of the soul (En un rincón del alma), Oil on linen by Chico Montilla.
Original perspective of a garden, w...
Category
Expressionist Early 2000s Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Vendedores de pájaros Diptych. From The Vendedores series, Photo Collage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Vendedores de pájaros Diptych, Lotero by Celso José Castro Daza
From The Vendedores series
One-of-a-kind Photo collage
Overall size: Sheet Size: 27 in. H x 40 in. W
Individual size:...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Mixed Media, Color, Photographic Paper
The Hopping Clown
Located in Toronto, ON
Image Size: 11" x 5 1/2" Unframed
Limited Edition Etching of 20
Hand Signed by Mariko Ando
2009
Category
Early 2000s Art
Materials
Etching
Guerillero Heroico Che Guevara hand signed photograph certified
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Attached is a certificate from the Carmen Tatche Gallery and press clippings from the exhibition held in 2000 in Spain.
Category
Modern Early 2000s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Looking Up To Highgate - Late 20th Century Landscape of Park in London by Quirke
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Looking Up To Highgate
Michael Quirke was born in 1946 and studied at St Martin’s School of Art, London. After moving from London, Michael became a member of the art community in St...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 2000s Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
0°00 Longitude, 52° 18N' Latitude, Mare Fen - Landscape Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Mare Fen, British landscape photograph from Richard Heeps series, 36 Minutes in Cambridgeshire.
Richard Heeps was awarded a Millennium Year of the Artist Arts Council Grant to make ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Silver Gelatin
From the Cradle to the Grave Book (limited edition hand signed monograph in box)
By Damien Hirst
Located in New York, NY
Damien Hirst
From the Cradle to the Grave, 2005
Limited Edition hardback monograph (Hand signed and numbered)
Hand signed and numbered 998/1500 by Damien Hirst on the title page
16 ×...
Category
Young British Artists (YBA) Early 2000s Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
Winged character Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art drawing outsider art portrait
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper
Dated and signed on the back
In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object o...
Category
Outsider Art Early 2000s Art
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Casey the Cat, unique acrylic mixed media and metal animal (cat) painting SIGNED
By Tom Judd
Located in New York, NY
Tom Judd
Casey (for the "Patrick Eddington Cat Project), 2000
Acrylic, Mixed Media and Metal painting on board
Signed and dated in pencil on the front
12 × 10 1/2 inches
This is a unique painting
Tom Judd Biography
This is a lovely mixed media painting by popular Philadelphia based artist, Tom Judd. Provenance: Estate of Patrick Eddington. Patrick Eddington was a Utah school teacher who had the improbable idea of writing to his favorite artists and asking them to draw or paint pictures of cats. “This project is a labor of love," Eddington wrote of his endeavor in a 2004 letter. “It will culminate as a large book and traveling exhibition. It will also help Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. I’ve asked individuals I admire to create cat-related works. They are not the typical cat images but creative works.” Patrick Eddington passed away in early 2016 and his vision was, unfortunately, never realized. Nonetheless, artists like Keith Haring, Joel Peter Witkin...
Category
Realist Early 2000s Art
Materials
Metal
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized Minis - 'Immaculate Springs' - signed, loose
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Mini
'Pasolini' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1996
featuring Jacinda Barrett
signed in front, not mounted.
Digital Color Photographs based on the Polaroi...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Shooting into the Corner Poster (hand signed and dated by Anish Kapoor)
By Anish Kapoor
Located in New York, NY
Anish Kapoor
Shooting into the Corner (hand signed and dated by Anish Kapoor), 2009
Offset lithograph poster (hand signed and dated 2016)
Boldly signed and dated by Anish Kapoor on t...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Prada Marfa Day
By Noel Kerns
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Artists Elmgreen and Dragset created a faux Prada store on the highway outside of Marfa Texas .The sculpture was financed by the Art Production Fund and Ballroom Ma...
Category
Early 2000s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Monday: 3 Down, Method of Removing Hair Roots (12)
By Ben McLaughlin
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Ben McLaughlin
Monday: 3 down, Method of removing hair roots (12), 2008
Oil on panel
6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (17.1 x 11.4 cm)
Category
Surrealist Early 2000s Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
ITZCHAK TARKAY "GARDEN PARTY" ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR 22"X15"
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: TARKAY, ITZCHAK
Title: "GARDEN PARTY"
Size: 15 X 22 INCHES
Medium: WATERCOLOR ON FRANCH ARCHES PAPER
Edition: ORIGINAL
Description: Hand signed by the artist
The artwork is i...
Category
Art Deco Early 2000s Art
Materials
Watercolor
Sitges Spain oil painting spanish landscape seascape urbanscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Sitges - Oil
Oil on canvas glued to cardboard.
Measures work 33x41 cm.
Frameless.
Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 2000s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
untitled
Located in Westmount, QC
David Blackwood, Canadian, 1941-2022
Untitled
watercolour on paper
22 x 28 in
signed and dated 1981 lower right
framed
Category
Early 2000s Art
Materials
Watercolor
Contemporary British Modernist Oil Painting Portrait of Woman in Pink
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady
by Geza Somerset-Paddon (British contemporary)
signed oil on board, unframed
dated feb 2001
board: 20 x 16 inches
provenance: private ...
Category
Modern Early 2000s Art
Materials
Oil
Textured Self Portrait by Cuban Photographer René Peña
By Rene Peña
Located in Brooklyn, NY
René Peña (Rene de Jesus Pena Gonzalez) is a self-taught photographer born in Havana, Cuba in 1957. His photography is characterized by stark contrasts, between black and white, subject and background, subject and object. His work often focuses on the duality between human inability to escape institutionalization and human desire for individualism. His interest in contrast is also reflected in his place of residence: Peña currently inhabits the Cerro neighborhood of Cuba which is home to a mostly poor African-Caribbean population, despite having been an enclave of Havana's richest families in the 19th century.
René Peña graduated from the Higher pedagogic Institute of Foreign Languages, University of Havana with a specialization in English in 1983. In the late 1980s he entered the national world of photography and since 1990 became leader of the new trends of Cuban photography, first by handling interiors and domestic situations in modern-day Cuba and later making studies of his own body in aspects such as negritude, sexual ambiguity and the influence of consumerism through self-portraits. He conceives his series on the basis of a conceptual, formal and structurally different analysis of all the parameters established up to the present, going from a brutal expressionism to a distinct homoeroticism, with strong mystic elements, trends from experimental painting, and a certain theatrical dramatization.
He has had important solo shows and participated in group exhibitions in Cuba, the United States, Venezuela, Canada, France and Germany. His work is part of important collections, not only national but also at world level, such as the National Museum of Fine Arts, Cuba; the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba; Reinhard Schultz Collection, Germany; photographic archive Tuscany, Italy; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, USA; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA; collection of the province of Hainuat, Belgium; and Lehigh University Pennsylvania...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
