20 years on the road
Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery commences their 20th anniversary celebrating what has been an incredible ride of avant-garde art, inaugurating their exhibition #20YearsOnTheRoad, which opens next May 21st through June 20th 2015, with the appearance of artists that have been part of the gallery since it’s beginnings in 1995.
“Welcome To The Caribbean” by dominican artist living in Paris, Garcia Cordero, and the “Terrible Infant” Raúl Recio, was Lyle O. Reitzel gallery’s inaugural exhibition, back when the gallery was first established at Plaza Andalucia. These artists belong to the gallery’s collective memory, among cuban origin icons like José Bedia and Luis Cruz Azaceta, as well as the Uruguayan master Ignacio Iturria, Edouard Duval Carrié from Haiti and Milton Becerra from Venezuela.
#20YearsOnTheRoad will feature two amazing talents as special guests, exhibiting for the first time in the Dominican Republic, the Argentinian Nina Surel and the Dominican – Haitian artist, Firelei Baez.
All the way from the Big Apple representing the Dominican diaspora, enriching the colective, are artists such as Gerard Ellis, Scherezade García, Chiqui Mendoza, and Tania Marmolejo. Never the less, the presence of the rocking emerging artists Hulda Guzmán and Gustavo Peña, as well as Cuban artist Carlos Estevez, can’t go unmentioned.
Ignacio Iturria Llegamos, 2005 o/t 130x100
Carlos Estevez Moon Fish, 2011, Oil and watercolor pencil on canvas, 18h x 36s in
Nina Surel Frida Kahlo, Photography, acrylic, collage, resin, 78h x68w x 2d in
Tania Marmolejo What Once Was Unheard Of, 2015, Oil on canvas. 59 x 51 in
Luis Cruz Azaceta Target-Strike, 2014, Acrylic, ink on paper, 30h x 42w in
Ignacio Iturria Soldaditos de Plomo, 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 150h x 200w in
Firelei Baez American Sampler, from the Ciguapa Series, 2013, Gouache and ink on paper, 65.5h x 56.6w in
Gerard Ellis Untitled (Kingdom II), 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 50h x 50w in
García Cordero Still Life, 2015, Acrylic on linen, 51 diameter in
García Cordero De la serie sueño de García Marquez, 2015, Acrylic on linen, 58 diameter in
Milton Becerra Wynwood, 2013, Yellow acrylic on wood, white, orange and blue fibres, quartz, 39 2/5 × 39 2/5 × 7 9/10 in
Ignacio Iturria Los Duendes, 2013, Oil on canvas, 100h x 130w in
Jennifer with Block Star (preserved Americana), 2015, Gouache and ink
on Paper, 40h x 25w in
Edouard Duval Carrié La Tete d' Ogou, 2015, Mixed media and aluminum, 19h x 16w
Edouard Duval Carrié Mountain Creeper, 2015, Mixed media and aluminum
Gustavo Peña De la serie Mente Abstracta, Mixed media, paint, concrete over wood panel, 48h x 48w in each
Hulda Guzmán A Dancer Will Enjoy It Every Time, 2015, Acrylic on canvas, 58.5h x 78.5w in