[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] The St Thomas Supply not too long ago introduced the exhibition “Transcromático, An Homage to Camille Pissarro,” by Puerto Rican artist Juan Carlos Amador. The exhibition will open on August 20, 2022, at 81C (positioned at Kronprindsens Gade, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands). Right here is extra data from St Thomas Supply.
81C is honored to announce a brand new solo artwork exhibition opening Saturday, Aug. 20, in historic Charlotte Amalie. “Transcromático, An Homage to Camille Pissarro” by Juan Carlos Amador options dynamic new work by an acclaimed Puerto Rico-based artist.
This exhibition opening commemorates 81C’s new artist help program endeavor, primarily based within the Pissarro Home on Major Road, which is the birthplace of impressionist influencer and creative pioneer Camille Pissarro. Opening reception hours are 5 p.m. to midnight, with Amador on location at 81C all through. Complimentary drinks can be served. “Transcromático” will run by way of late September and is sponsored partially by the Neighborhood Basis of the Virgin Islands.
ARTIST STATEMENT: “Transcromático,” my newest assortment, outcomes from an natural evolution of my work. In an countless search of expression, I’ve by no means stopped experimenting with totally different mediums and types, all the time impressed by the countless however distinctive colour palate of my memoirs rising up in Puerto Rico. “Transcromático” affords the viewer totally different types, from layers of translucent colours over one another, pointillism, collages and ceramic.
A couple of 12 months in the past, I used to be invited to exhibit my work in St Thomas; it was throughout that have that I spotted that Camille Pissarro, one in all Impressionism’s fathers, had the truth is been born proper right here, in St. Thomas. Since then, I started researching his work, and thru it, I felt that maybe we each, being from the Caribbean, have been impressed in some unspecified time in the future by the identical muse, introduced up by its colours, its landscapes, its essence.
By way of “Transcromático,” I humbly pay homage to Pissarro’s legacy, hoping that this providing makes the viewers really feel what I felt once I found his work. – Juan Carlos Amador
ARTIST BIO: Born in 1976, a local of Mayagüez and raised in Aguadilla, Juan Carlos Amador graduated in Tremendous Arts from the College of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras (2002) whereas immersed in Puerto Rican artists comparable to Rafael Rivera Rosa and Néstor Millán. Amador has greater than 5 solo exhibitions to his credit score whereas at present displaying in Puerto Rico and St. Thomas.
[Image above: Juan Carlos Amador’s “Transcromatico II,” 2022; 46” x 58”.]
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For extra on the exhibition, see https://www.fb.com/occasions/1395938007568936
Observe the artist at https://www.fb.com/amadorcontemporaryart.