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ORLANDO CASTRO

ORLANDO CASTRO

ORLANDO CASTRO
Name: Orlando Castro
City: Gurabo, Puerto Rico
Title: Alieenigena II
Medium: Oil
Size: 19.5" x 35"
Cost: Contact Artist
Web: Orlando Castro
Name: Orlando Castro
City: Gurabo, Puerto Rico
Title: Amarga
Medium: Oil
Size: 20" x 42"
Cost: Contact Artist
Web: Orlando Castro

Artist Statement:

The art is an expression form where alternating worlds of other dimensions are created where the limit is the imagination. My dimension as far as the art, is inspired by the human figure, specially by the feminine one. The body is a surface of undulations and volumes of great expressive wealth the curved line and the volume next to the color nourishes my proposals or abstraction or figuration. In this work work with my subconscious mind where my reminiscences on the human figure are mixed with my ideas of spontaneous form.

Exhibitions/Awards:
He is born on July 26, 1961 in Las Piedras, Puerto Rico. He possesses a Master in Fine Arts (Painting) (Academic Excellence Medal ) of the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, Enclosure of San Germn (2003) and a Baccalaureate in Humanities with concentration in Plastic Arts, (Magna Cum Laude) University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. His speciality is in Painting and Drawing.

Among his individual exhibitions in Puerto Rico are: (2008)Reminiscencias URY Gallery, San Juan , Puerto Rico 2006 Of the mythical thing ... and of the arcane thing, Dilan Gallery San Juan, Puerto Rico; 2004 Amverso y Reverso Gallery The House of Arts, San Juan; 2003 ...arropas de Cundiamores" Museum of Art of Caguas, Caguas; 2002 ...por un sendero entre mayas arropas de.... Gallery of the Department of Art, Interamerican University, San Germn.

Some collective exhibitions are: 2008 Nude Nite, Orlando, Florida, USA , 2007 10th Latin American Art Exhibition, Broward Community College, Florida, 2006 International Artist in California, Latino Art Museum, Pomona, California USA; 2006 ARWI Art and Wine Fair Puerto Rico Convention Center San Juan Puerto Rico; 2006 Hispanic Heritage in America, Museum of the Americas, Miami Florida USA; 2005 Sixth Collective of Artists of the Valley of the Turabo, Museum of the University of the Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico, International Fair of Gent's Art, Belgium Pavilion of the Art, Frankfurt, Germany, Lounge Vald'Or, Paris, France . Presencia Boricua, Museum of the Americas, Miami, Florida, USA; 2003 There shows Native of Plastic Arts, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2002 Plastic Artists of the Valley of the Turabo, a Decade of Creation 1992-2002 University of the Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico; Forceful, Gallery Petrus, San Juan, Puerto Rico (Nominated as Best Collective Exhibition of Puert!
o Rican (AICA) 1991 " Sixth Annual International Exhibition of Miniature Art, Of The Beautiful Gallery ", Toronto, Canada.

Among his more important distinctions they are: 2006 First Prize International Artist in California,Latino Art Museum, Pomona California USA; 2006 Honorary Mention Hispanic Heritage in America, Museum of the Americas Miami Florida USA; 2002 I Reward The Best first Individual Professional Exhibition, Critics' International Association of Art (AICA); 2001 The First Prize Painting (Medal UNESCO), National Exhibition of the Puerto Rrican Artist (ENDAPP), Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; 1984 The First Prize Painting and The First Prize in Draw, the XIth University Contest of Plastic Arts of the UPR, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico




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