Silvano Lora (Santo Domingo, 1931-2003)

Silvano Lora (1931-2003), was born in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic.

A graduate of the National School of Fine Arts (Santo Domingo), he presented his first solo exhibition in 1951, at the Alianza Francesa de Santo Domingo (F. 1914). Silvano quickly jumped to the international stage, exhibiting in cities such as Sao Paolo in 1952, Puerto Rico (1954). Spain, Cairo, and Paris (1957-58), Copenhagen and Rome (1960), Panama, Moscow (1985) and South Korea.

A painter, sculptor and performer, Silvano Lora was also regarded for his social activism and 'non-conformist' style, his opposition to the Trujillo dictatorship and racial history of the Dominican Republic.

In 1992, in protest of the celebrations of the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Dominican Republic, Silvano Lora and other artist crossed the Ozama river in wooden canoes to bring attention to the plight of indigenous people not only in Dominican Republic but also throughout Latin America.

Silvano Lora
Born 1931. Died 2003.

Works by Silvano Lora

Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat (Santo Domingo, b. 1987)

Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat (1987), was born in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic and one of the Caribbean's oldest cities.

An illustrator and animator, Tomás studied art at the Altos de Chavon School of Design, in La Romana, and the Parsons School of Design, in New York. He has exhibited his work in New York, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Milan, Lisbon and the Dominican Republic.

"With a profound love of telling stories; Tomás sees his work as 'magic-realism, evoking the surreal experience of growing up in the caribbean."

Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat

Danilo de los Santos: Marola La Eva del Trópico

"Marola" es una extensa serie de pinturas del artista, crítico e historiador dominicano Danilo de los Santos (Puerto Plata, 1943 - 2018). La serie ve su inicio oficial con el cuadro "Mujeres después de trajinar" (óleo sobre lienzo, 1970), aunque el artista sitúa los inicios del tema en su primera infancia.

El tema "Marola" se inspiró en el contraste que el artista vio entre las mujeres negras dominicanas en la cultura popular y las mujeres con las que creció. Para De los Santos, las mujeres negras dominicanas que conoció y encontró eran voluminosas, de pies grandes y grandes de senos y traseros. Estas observaciones, dice De los Santos, lo llevan a desarrollar el tema de la "Marola".

Danilo de los Santos (1943-2018), conocido artísticamente como Dánicel, nació en la Provincia de Puerto Plata, ubicada en la región norte de la República Dominicana.

José Rincón Mora (1939 - 2016)

Rincón Mora es, ciertamente, uno de los artistas más sobresalientes de la República Dominicana. Su conocimiento y su destreza tocan casi todos los oficios de las bellas artes, incluyendo la arquitectura, las artes gráficas, el vitral y la cerámica. Hermosos son sus trabajos de sillería, sus vitrales para diversas catedrales europeas y dominicanas.

– Fernando Ureña Rib

Carlos Redman Rosario (San Cristóbal, b. 1963)

Carlos Redman Rosario, born on April 5, 1963, in Bajos de Haina, a town and municipality in the San Cristóbal Province, in the southern region of the Dominican Republic.

In 1988, he enrolls at the National School of Fine Arts in Santo Domingo, and later comes under the tutelage of Leopoldo 'Lepe' Perez.

Since 1995, Carlos has held solo exhibitions throughout the Dominican Republic, and internationally, including exhibitions in Mexico and Chile.

Carlos Redman Rosario (San Cristóbal, b. 1963)

Ángel Haché (1943 - 2016)

Ángel Haché (1943 - 2016), was born in San Pedro de Macoris (established in 1822), a province in the south-eastern region of the Dominican Republic.

A painter and actor, Haché began his artistic training at the School of Architecture of the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, where he studied for only three years, receiving classes from Domingo Liz -- after which he attends the Hernández Ortega Academy. At the end of 1967 he travels to Spain, enrolling in the academy of San Fernando, in Madrid. While in Spain, Haché also dives into acting lessons.

The artist and historian, Danilo de los Santos, referred to Haché's career as "one of those exceptional cases, in which two difficult branches of art converge without limitations: theater and painting.

Ángel Haché (1943 - 2016) / via Facebook

Zerahias Polanco

“¡Si me voy de aquí me muero!”, trata sobre el ambiente en el que crecí y donde viví. Las construcciones; cómo se construye, las casas, el barrio, todo eso. Intento retratar el entorno en el que crecí, en el que vivo. Hablo un poco de los barrios Gualey, Guachupita, Los Guandules y 27 de Febrero, y trato de mostrar cómo son, cómo se sienten.

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Zerahias Polanco nació en 1997 en Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. Estudió arte en el Instituto Politécnico Parroquial Santa Ana, en Santo Domingo, y en la Escuela de Diseño Altos de Chavón, en La Romana.

Wilson Abreu, Gravitaciones, 2018

"Gravitaciones" is a collection of works on paper, completed in 2018, by Wilson Abreu (Constanza, b. 1972).

"Perverse Conversation"

Franz Caba, Inktober 2018

Day 31 - Slice

Every October, artists all over the world take on the Inktober drawing challenge by doing one ink drawing a day the entire month.

Franz Caba, born 1991, in the city of Santo Domingo, took on the #Inktober2018 challenge, and inked his way to the end. With 31 illustrations starring his signature character and his twisted imagination, Franz used the official list of prompt words to capture the feel of the month of Halloween.

Artist Statement

"In my illustrations for inktober I present some fat and masculine characters wearing turban and lipstick, I use common poses within the editorial photography of fashion, together with the element or action referring to the word designated for each day.

With this series, I was interested in exploring the limits of masculinity, providing my characters with attitudes and clothing associated with the feminine, the vulnerable or the sinful, with a motive primarily precious and in some cases comical."

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