The Fine Arts Department of Georgia Perimeter College in association with the Rio Piedras Campus Cultural Promotion Program of the University of Puerto Rico will be presenting the opening of the Painting and Poetry exhibition “Amongst All Women”, by the painter Alexander Rosado and the poet Eric Landron, both from Puerto Rico.
The exhibition opening will be held at the Clarkston Campus Fine Arts Building Gallery on Thursday August 23, 2007 at 5:30 pm and the exhibition will remain open to the public till the last week of September. The show presents sixteen feminine faces in various emotional and psychological states (reflecting also on the human condition) and a self-portrait of the artist, with the opening also including a dual language recital performance. The “Pintuverse” medium claims the fusion of visual poetry with written poetry. In this sense, the poet becomes a ventriloquist of the painting, singing to the image of the colors and to the suggestive metaphor summoned by the paintbrush. In this occasion the central theme is the feminine, the woman, her dreams, beauties, myths, moods, strengths, and characteristics, in addition to her indisputable permanence in the life of humanity. The theme is irremediably seasoned by the “masculine” filter of experience of both the painter and the poet – “amongst women” – and in this case the song is sung from the masculine to the feminine but it is also a song sung to humanity.
University of Puerto Rico professor and art critic J. A. Perez Ruiz comments on Alexander’s work with the following, taken from his essay:
“From his non-objective discourse a speculative flow emanates that links with the faces of clear realist accents that seem to emerge from the depths. In his case the dialectic play between figurative and subjective bestow his communication with the special power of the innovative. We should indicate that this duality, although not lacking in reciprocal tensions, permits the represented faces to maintain subtle gestures or expressions that indicate they are being assisted by complementary forces that exclude the impetuous and provide an audience to the rational…
…If something can be inferred from the protagonists in the paintings of Alexander it is the philosophical vision of life, since indicative tendencies warn us that once those streaks of lightning carry out their assignment they will return to integrate with nomadic space with the goal of guaranteeing other existential cycles…
…In a certain way the lineal tangles that precede every effigy, bring to the consideration of the observer asymmetric images that bring us closer to experienced realities. We find in the women of Alexander a peace that jolts all the positive elements of their faces…”
Alexander Rosado is a Puerto Rican painter born in 1960. He has exhibited in various solo shows, reaping innumerable praise from critics and artists, and many collective expositions including shows in Puerto Rico, New York, Miami, Denver, Brazil, and the Dominican Republic. His clean and abundant style, sparkling and deep, suggestive and accurate, unique and original, make him one of the experimental painters of greater transcendence in Puerto Rico.
Eric Landron is a Puerto Rican poet born in 1953. His esthetics is the ethic of the fusion of all art media and in their use for the rehabilitation, redemption and healing of personal and social ills. He has written and published various books and hundreds of journalistic columns.
For more information you may contact the Fine Arts Department at GPC at 678-891-3577 or 678-891-3556.
