| One Person Exhibitions: | 2024
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Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Popp Martin Art Gallery, Charlotte, NC Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC Ross Gallery, Charlotte, NC Rauch Gallery, Dallas, NC NWCH Gallery, Westchester, NY Jade Nectar Gallery East, Southampton, NY Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY Riverview Creations Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY Inter Art Gallery, Jackson Heights, NY La Gaviota Gallery, NYC The Gallery at St. Francis of Assisi Church, NYC
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| Group Shows: | 2023
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Lee Dillinger Fine Arts in Statesville, NC
Arte Latino Now 2021, Virtual Exhibition, Queens University of Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
Novant Health Gallery, CPCC Exhibition, Charlotte, NC Overcash Gallery, CPCC Faculty Exhibition, Charlotte, NC
Pease Gallery, CPCC Faculty and Alumni Exhibition, Charlotte, NC Max L. Jackson Gallery, Charlotte, NC, Arte Latino Now: An Exhibition of Latino Artists
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Mass, Freedom of Expression Page Walker Art and History Center, Cary, NC, FALC Ross Gallery, Invitational Holiday Market
Ross Gallery, Charlotte, NC Max L. Jackson Gallery, Charlotte, NC, Arte Latino Now: An exhibition of Latino Artists |
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2015 |
Max L. Jackson Gallery, Charlotte, NC, Arte Latino Now: An exhibition of Latino Artists Gaston County Museum of Art and History, Dallas, NC Essence of Change Faculty Show, Pease Gallery, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC Ciel Gallery, Charlotte, NC, The Body Beautiful |
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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, NY, NY Jade Nectar 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, NYC
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, NYC Tristan & America, NYC Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland |
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| 1999 | The Immaculate Conception Center, Queens, NYC
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, NYC
Langston Hughes Library and Cultural Center, Queens, NYC Art Students League of New York Gallery, NY, NY |
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| 1989 1990 |
5th & 6th Annual City College Spring Art Exhibit, NY, NY | |
| 1989 | McGraw Hill Gallery, NY, NY | |
| Selected Commissions: | 2001 | NYC Department of Education, At I. S. 145Q |
| 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: | EWTN, Eternal Word Television Network
The NYC Dept. of Education The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte, NC The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, NYC The Roman Catholic Diocese of Birmingham, Alabama Christ the King Monastery, Cullman, Alabama Med. Assist Corporation The City College of New York Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church, NYC The Apostolate for Family Consecration, Bloomingdale, Ohio San Basilio Magno Chapel, Quito, Ecuador Hundreds of private collections |
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| Bibliography Articles and Reviews: |
The New York Art World Gallery Guide, March, 2003, page 24, New York Press, The New York Academy of Art group show review, May 29, 2003
The Rivertowns Enterprise, June 11, 2004, p. 14 The Rivertowns Enterprise, February 18, 2005, page 15, illus. The New York Times, February 27, 2005, Section 14, page 11 The New York Teacher, March 3, 2005, page 21, Cimino, Tonia The Queens Courier, page 51, November 2, 2006, McGowan, Carl, Newsday Page G12, October 23, 2005Nanos, Janelle, Jackson Heights Times, March 10, 2005, page E1 and E4, Paign, Roger, The Tablet, March 12, 2005, pages 1, 16-17, illus. The Artist’s Magazine, December 2006 |
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| Electronic Media: | 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, May 2000 Painting shown on Realidodes Television, NYC |
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| Internet: | 2006 March 17 Newsday.com2006 June 6 Indyeastend.com | |
| Exhibition Catalogs: | 2000 | First and Second Religious Art Exhibit of the Northeast Hispanic |
| 1999 | Center Catalog, NY, NY | |
| 1998 | Sacred Art Exhibition Catalog, Newport, RI | |
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Awards: |
2015
2023 2017
2006 |
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, Con A De Arte
A retrospective presentation of my artwork ASC Artist Support Grant, Mecklenburg County, NC Regional Artist Grant, Mecklenburg County, NC
The National Academy of Design Ralph Fabri Scholarship, Won twice. |
| 1999 | Local Arts Collaborative Exchange Program Series Grant, L.A.C.E. is a project of the Jackson Heights Community Development Corp. | |
| 1989 | McGraw Hill Impact Two Grant | |
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Education: |
M.F.A., The New York Academy of Art NYC, Cum Laude B. Arch., The City College of New York Attended the Art Students League of New York The National Academy School of Fine Arts, NYC Studio 126, NYC The Long Island Academy of Art, NY Mims Studio, NC, Studied with Bennett Vadnais for six years in Queens, NYC. Also studied at the Andrew Reiss Atelier for four years in Brooklyn, NYC. Head Studio Assistant to the national known portrait painter Sharon Sprung at the Art Students League of New York for seven years. |
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| Selected Teaching Experience: |
2013 – Present, Art (Painting, Art Appreciation, Drawing and 2D Design) 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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| 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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