Thursday, November 27, 2025

After meeting Angel Borroto's work for the first time at Amor/Fuego Gallery, where I got to meet a a few of the artists I work with today and some that became really good friends with as well including Armig Santos, Kivan Quinones and Saki Sacarello whom I've known from before. I also saw Borroto's work a El Cuadrado Gris and just knew he was more than just an up and comer he was a force to be reckon with for the next 60 years.


He had a show at the Modulo de Mejoramiento Comunitario (MCC) in Rio Piedras and was impressed with his work but most of all his dedication and work ethic. I took it upon me to promote his solo show and went on to sell around 5 pieces of that exhibition. 

My job is to promote and sell art and thats what I do, artists either don't know how to sell or simply don't like the part of selling their work. That's when I came in and we started a business relationship that has extended to his inclusion in 3 exhibitions in less than 2 years at Trailer Park Proyetcs. Generation Next at El Schomburg in Chicago, Pintura Contemporanea de PfknR which led up to Suenos Brujos his first solo show with TTP, a pop-up show at Publica that was originally set up to be up for 10 days and it was extended to almost 20 days. Thanks to Omar Obdulio and his gallery 2Bleo who hosted the show and helped with the logistics of the space, very grateful for Omar's help and support throughout the years.

The exhibition design was stunning and the way the exhibition flowed and told a story was really something I am very proud of. With a group effort between Angel, Omar and myself we had to make some changes in site but they worked out perfectly. This is a show set up Im extremely proud of.

Opening was great a lot of big collectors came to see his show including Ignacio Cortes, Otto Reyes, Eduardo Rodriguez and the late John Belk, also the late art critic Manuel Alvarez Lezama both of whom were very dear friends and supporters of my projects. We sold a few pieces but was really happy to sell to 2 young up and coming collectors. It's always great to sell to the young people who you know make a big sacrifice to purchase and collect art. 

The exhibition opened on July the 1st, 2025 and closed unofficially on the 10th of July. It was extended till the 20th of July. 

Here are some photos of the opening night and of some the works exhibited:













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