Musings on Art

Rosalba Hernandez b. Dajabón Province, Dominican Republic Education 1997 B.F.A. Drawing, Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic          M.F.A. Painting, Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Professional 2009 Co-founder of  Laboratorio Evolutivo de Arte, Santo Domingo, D.R. Recent work from her series Retratos Emocionales "Emotional Portraits." ¨Ruth¨ Tinta, acrílica, y barniz sobre papel. 42 ½    X 22 ½ Pulgadas, año 2012. ¨Mujer hibrida¨ Tinta, acrílica, y barniz sobre papel. 41 ½   X 26   Pulgadas, año 2012.     ¨el lado izquierdo de Jazmin¨ Tinta, acrílica, y barniz sobre lienzo. 30 X 40 Pulgadas, año 2014. Retrato en rojo Tinta, pigmentos,   acrílica, carboncillo y barniz sobre lienzo, 18x36 Pulgadas, año 2014 in yelow Tinta, pigmentos, barniz, sobre lienzo. 18 X 29 Pulgadas, año 2014

Mirna Ledesma b. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Education 2012 - B.F.A. Visual Arts, Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), D.R. currently pursuing M.F.A. in Visual Arts at UASD Professional 2001 -  present, Professor, Drawing, Perspective I, Perspective II, Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santo Domingo, D.R. 2012, Professor, Dominican Ministry of Culture and Sinfae As a person from the Caribbean, Ledesma identifies strongly with light and color, and at the same time, incorporates a sense of playfulness into her paintings in order to create a sense of harmony between the elements of the work and the viewer.  Ledema strives to translate the essence of reality in order to demonstrate to the world, that there exists a space beyond the palpable, which are life experiences, meetings with others, and occurances.   Within her paintings, Ledesma discovers each space of the canvas; a line, a circle, color, paper, flowers, stems, all united to the esthetic and social cha

Patricia Gamundi b. La Vega, Dominican Republic Education 1992 Advertising Arts, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, UASD. 2000  B.F.A.  Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 2012  B.F.A. Visual Arts, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, UASD, cum laude. 2014  M.F.A. Visual Arts, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, UASD. Thesis pending. Professional 2002 -  present, Professor, Drawing. Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales, Santo Domingo, D.R. Gamundi creates art in order to develop her ideas and concepts that reside within her thoughts.  The fusion of music and art transports her to another dimension where she gives life to her works of art.  Youth, in general, has inspired her works; their dreams, their games and activities, their magical religious rituals.  Gamundi paint’s youth’s symbiosis with nature: the flora, fauna, rivers, the Caribbean sea.  The Dominican Republic is made up of people of different races, and this m

Isabel Yepez b. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Education 1992, B.F.A. Painting, Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Yepez’s paintings focus not only on the painting technique, but also focus on the relationship of the materials used to the human feminine form, capturing its fragility and the nature that surrounds the human form.  The women Yepez depicts in her works are rare beauties who wish to evoke emotions and create poetic fantasies with a touch of romanticism, like “I am here to take care of you.”  These women appear to be in lands where there is an eternal summer. Using acrylic paint as her medium, the viewer is attracted to her work through the use of colors that resemble the changing phases of the sun in an endlessly sunny Caribbean; yellow and orange represent sunrise, mixed with blue is the sky, and green represents nature.  The women Yepez depicts have no race, they are simply women; always beautiful, throughout all stages o

  November 21 - December 12, 2014 5-7pm; opening   reception   essex art center 56 Island Street, Lawrence, MA 01840