| One Person Shows: |
1999 |
The Gallery at St. Francis of Assisi Church, NY, NY
La Gaviota, Queens, NY |
| Two Person Show: |
2006 |
Jade Necter Gallery East, Southampton, NY |
| Three Person Show: |
2004 |
River view Creations Gallery, Transcendent Visions, Dobbs Ferry, NY |
| Group Exhibitions: |
2013 |
Faculty Show, Pease Gallery, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC |
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2006 |
8o Washington Square East Galleries, 29th Juried Competition Exhibition,
Jack Shainman, Juror, Director, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY |
| Jade Necter Gallery East, Southampton, NY (Summer Show) NWCH Gallery Westchester, NY |
| Salmagundi Center for American Art,Invitational Juried Art Show, New York, NY |
| Elder Art Gallery, The Artful Figure, Charlotte, NC |
| National Academy of Design, NY, NY |
| Jade Nectar Gallery East, Southampton, NY (Fall Show) |
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2005 |
Flushing Town Hall, A Smithsonian Institution Affiliate
Sleight of Mind: Magic Realism in Contemporary Art, Flushing,NY
Curated by Louise Weinberg |
| Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA |
| Katonah Museum of Art, Artistic Fragments, A Tri-State Juried Exhibition, Katonah,NY |
The Art Gallery at St. Cabrini, (Thirty Paintings and Drawings)
Dobbs Ferry, NY |
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2004 |
| Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, NY, NY |
| Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY, Tenth Annual Juried Small Works Show |
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2003 |
| Sotheby’s Auction House, NY, NY |
| Inter Art Gallery, NY, NY, Portraits of Life |
| The New York Academy of Art, NY, NY |
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2000 |
| Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY |
| Credit Suisse First Boston, NY, NY |
| Tristan & America, NY, NY |
| Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland |
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1999 |
| The Immaculate Conception Center, Queens, NY |
| The Spanish Institute, NY, NY |
| Sacred Art Exhibit, Newport Elks Lodge, Newport, RI |
| One Space Art Gallery, Queens, NY |
| St. Michael Institute of Sacred Art, Sacred Art Gallery, Mystic, CT |
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1998 |
| Europa Art Gallery, Queens, NY |
| Langston Hughes Library and Cultural Center, Queens,NY |
| Art Students League of New York Gallery, NY, NY |
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5th & 6th Annual City College Spring Art Exhibit, NY,NY |
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1989 |
McGraw Hill Gallery, NY, NY |
| Selected Commissions: |
2001 |
NYC Department of Education, At I. S. 145Q |
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1999 |
Commissioned painting donated to St.Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in LIC, NY.
On permanent display in the church. |
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1998 |
A nativity painting for the Holy Family Bed and Breakfast, LIC, NY |
| Collections: |
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| Artwork is included in the collection of EWTN |
| Eternal Word Television Network, The City College of New York, |
| Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church Rectory, Queens, NY, |
| The Apostolate for Family Consecration, Bloomingdale, Ohio, |
| San Basilio Magno Chapel,Quito, Ecuador, and in various private collections. |
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Bibliography Articles
and Reviews: |
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The New York Art World Gallery Guide, March, 2003, page 24 |
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New York Press, The New York Academy of Art group show review,
May 29, 2003 |
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The Rivertowns Enterprise, June 11, 2004, p. 14 |
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The Rivertowns Enterprise, February 18, 2005, page 15, illus. |
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The New York Times, February 27, 2005, Section 14, page 11 |
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The New York Teacher, March 3 2005, page 21, illus. |
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Cimino, Tonia, The Queens Courier, page 51, November 2, 200 |
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Macgowan, Carl, Newsday, Page G12, October 23, 2005 |
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Nanos, Janelle, Jackson Heights Times, March 10, 2005,
page E1 and E4, illus. |
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Paign, Roger, The Tablet, March 12, 2005, pages 1, 16-17, illus. |
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The Artist’s Magazine, December 2006 |
| Electronic Media: |
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2006 March NY1 Community Calendar, 80 Washington Square East Galleries
29th Juried Competition Exhibition |
| 2005 May 3-7 Wilkinson, Ed, The Tablet Week in Review, Interview with Al Torres |
| 2005 April 9 Drawing shown on Channel 79 Time Warner and Channel 30 Cablevision, NYC |
| 2000 May Painting shown on Realidodes Television, NYC |
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| Internet: |
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2006 March 17 Newsday.com |
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2006 June 6 Indyeastend.com |
| Exhibition Catalogues: |
2000 |
First and Second Religious Art Exhibit of the Northeast Hispanic |
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1999 |
Center Catalogue, NY, NY |
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1998 |
Sacred Art Exhibition Catalogue, Newport, RI |
| Awards: |
2006 |
The Artist’s Magazine 23rd Annual National Competition Finalist Prize
The National Academy of Design Ralph Fabri Scholarship, Won twice. |
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1996 |
Local Arts Collaborative Exchange Program Series Grant, L.A.C.E. is a project
of the Jackson Heights Community Development Corp. |
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1989 |
McGraw Hill Impact Two Grant |
| Education: |
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| M.F.A., The New York Academy of Art, cum laude |
| B. Arch., The City College of New York |
| Attended the Art Students League of New York, Brooklyn College, |
| The National Academy School of Fine Arts, NY, NY, Studio 126, NY, NY. |
| The Long Island Academy of Art and Mims Studio, NC. |
| Studied with Bennett Vadnais for six years in Queens, New York City. |
| Studied at the Andrew Reiss Atelier for four years in Brooklyn, New York City. |
| Studio Assistant to Sharon Sprung at the Art Students League of New York for seven years. |
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| Selected Teaching Experience: |
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| 2013, Art instructor at Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC |
2004 – 2009, Guest lecturer of drawing at the Institute of Design and
Construction College, Brooklyn, NY |
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| Artist Statement: |
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 In my multiview paintings I try to go beyond the physical presence of the person or object which I am rendering. My aim is to capture the essence of the subject. I hope to impart a sense of wonder. The painting will depict either a moment in time or is a visual dialogue through time. With my multiview paintings, the observer approaches the left side of the painting, where he or she sees the first image (left view). As the observer moves towards the center image of the painting (front view), a combination of the left and right views emerges. When the spectator moves over to the
right side, the second complete image is manifested. In this type of painting one side may have small scale elements the other larger ones. The images of either side may have opposite meanings, but their juxtaposition connects them. With this kind of painting the revealed is hidden and the hidden is revealed at the viewer’s pace. In my work I try to
bring in the fourth dimension – time. A sense of visual movement is perceived as one goes from the left to the right view. With the center (front) view, the combined images create an intertwining that could not be achieved with a diptych painting. |
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