Summer Wheat - 2014 TPP Artist in Residence

We are proud to announce that artist Summer Wheat has been selected as Trailer Park Proyects 2014 artist in residence. Wheat completed her MFA at Savannah College of Art and Design.

Her work have been exhibited in shows at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Los Angeles and in the Torrance Art Museum in California. She is currently represented by Samson Projects in Boston who presented her in a solo show at NADA Art Fair New York.

To learn more about her work you can visit her website www.summerwheat.com

She will be working at a private studio for the month of June located in the heart of the city of Santurce so she gets a feel for the art scene and local city life.

As part of the residency, Summer will be visting the studios and meeting some of our local artists and hopefully collaborating and exchanging their points of views regarding our culture, art and customs and viceversa.

Wheat is represented by Sampson Projects and recently had a very talked about solo booth at NADA art fair and a solo show in Thierry Goldberg Gallery. She had a solo show at TPP back it 2012.

We are very excited to have her here in Puerto Rico and hope she enjoys her stay here in the Island. Past TPP residents include Timothy Bergstrom in 2012 and Eder Castillo in 2013.

                                 

TPP Present: "Murmuration" solo exhibition by Nathan Budoff

Trailer Park Proyects is proud to present artist’s Nathan Budoff latest solo exhibition titled “Murmuration”. Budoff who has a MFA in painting form the SAIC (Chicago Art Institute) and whom is currently teaching painting at the University of Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras), has been exhibiting actively in the past years with his amazing solo exhibition at the Museo de Arte de Caguas titled “Looking Up” along with curator Elsa Maria Melendez which was a very impressive museum show, a two man exhibition alongside Carlos Ruiz Valarino at Colburn Gallery at the University of Vermont and a solo show titled “Retrato” in Recinto Cerra Alternative space directed by sculptor Jaime Rodriguez Crespo which consisted in expanded drawings on paper with outlines along the walls in what to my opinion was one of the best shows of last year.

 

Budoff describes the works of the exhibition as an ongoing investigation on the patterns of nature and things constructed by human beings. He studies the trees and how they make up different forms and shapes both symmetrical and asymmetrical. Just like birds in the sky which suddenly disperse and disappear as they fly and how these patterns vanish in a split second in contrast and difference to the constructions and spaces where we build our homes and cities.

               

These drawings have a high margin of unpredictability because the drawings are not planned and they get the shape and composition along the way of the creation. The intense colors used are vital and unexpected in each work. All works get the elements randomly filling them as the drawing comes along with what felt natural and appropriate at the time. These are drawings created so everyone can see the world around us with a set of different eyes and from another perspective and inspiration.

      

All the works exhibited are mixed media drawings on paper sized 11”x 15” and will be priced at $350. The show will be traveling in the first week of April to the usual stops at Universidad de Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras) and la Escuela de Artes Plasticas in Old San Juan. Follow us on twitter for up to date schedules and follow us on Facebook to see all the works that will be shown and photos of the stops of Trailer Park Proyects.

TPP Presents: Ally White's - "Stuck Inside" solo exhibition.

Trailer Park Proyects is happy to present the first solo exhibition of Athens, Georgia based up and coming young artist Ally White. The show titled “Stuck Inside” Consists of 20 of her most recent works fresh of her 2013 BFA at University of Georgia where she was the recipient of the Presidential Scholar Award and the Mary Rosenblatt Scholarship.

White’s work was recently selected to be the front cover of New American Paintings issue 106 and she was selected as a “jury picks” for the book 100 painters of tomorrow a project of Beers Contemporary in London which showcases 100 young artists from all over the world. The book will come out later this year (www.100paintersoftomorrow.com). For more information on Ally’s work you can visit her website www.allywhite.com

“Stuck Inside” features paintings of imagined still lives and portraits that depict a vibrantly bored world. The works deal with the contrast in domesticity and exoticism – the yearning for something unfamiliar versus being content within home bounds. They are constructed with thoughts about suburbia, vacations, and interior spaces.

All the works presented are done in both painting and collage. The image emerges through a process of erasure, mending and embellishment of these materials.  We will be showing works ranging from $175-$500 in different sizes and will be taken to the UPR Rio Piedras and Escuala de Artes Plasticas in San Juan on February 13. It will also be presented at some point to the NADA members visit to San Juan, Art City of the Future during the same weekend.

For more information please call or contact Alexis Figueroa director of Trailer Park Proyects at 787-409-6983.

TPP Presents: Ryan Travis Christian and Marcie Oakes exhibition "American Landscapes and Stuff"

This month TPP is proud to present the dual exhibition titled “American Landscapes and Stuff” of Chicago based artists Ryan Travis Christian and Marcie Oakes. Both have a BFA from North Illinois University and have been showing constantly around the USA.  Oakes has an upcoming solo show at the McHenry Community College in 2014 and Christian will have his own at Western Exhibitions in 2014.

Ryan Travis Christian

Ryan Travis Christian

Marice Oakes

Marcie Oakes

 

Oakes works colored drawings which depict landscapes and great depth and shades of colors that captivate the audience and within the abstraction makes you look and search for different forms and figures.  Although for this exhibition she will exhibit black and white paintings.

Ryan Travis Christian on the other hand is well known for his graphite drawings which depict his own fascinating world of illustration and abstractions along with his satiric/sarcastic insights. A really complex and creative imagery that is ever-changing that helps create and share with us, his own private Idaho.

For more information and to see other works from Marcie Oakes visit:  http://artsandjunk.wordpress.com/category/marcie-oaks/

For more information and examples of Ryan’s work please visit: http://ryantravischristian.blogspot.com/

The exhibition will run from November and extend until December 2013. We will visit our mandatory visits to the Escuela de Artes Plasticas and University of Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras Campus).  At Artejangueo 7 (Anniversary Celebration) on December the drawings will be shown alongside some of our other artists including, Nelson Figueroa, Jose Ortiz, Tim Bergstrom, Manuel Rodriguez, Omar Velazquez, Rafael Miranda, Sebastian Vallejo and others.

All works are priced at $500 or under. For inquiries please call Alexis Figueroa at 787-409-6983 or email us at trailerparkproyects@yahoo.com

Trailer Park Proyects at Los Muros Habalan

TPP is proud to be a part of the world renown street art festival Los Muros Habalan. we were invited to be part of the event and we will be traveling around Rio Piedras and locate the Trailer where some of the murals will be painted for the festival.

We will be showing this months artist Nelson Figueroa and his show titled "Royalty" selected new drawings. Don't miss this amazing show where everything will be priced at only $200. All works are 22"x 30" and are oil, charcoal and spray paint on paper.

We are really happy to be part of this amazing festival that helps regenerate forgotten and abandoned public spaces.

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Royalty - Recent Drawings from Nelson Figueroa

This month we are proud to present the new works on paper of Puerto Rico based artist Nelson Figueroa. Figueroa is currently finishing paperwork to begin his MFA at Brooklyn College in NYC. He graduated from the Escuala de Artes Plasticas in San Juan and had a solo exhibition of his pop paintings at Puerto Rico Fine Arts and collective shows at Liga de Arte de San Juan, Trailer Park Proyects in Puerto Rico and internationally in NYC and at Scope Art Fair in Miami. He is currently working for a show at NYC based Gallery Eachone which will consist of digital drawings.

 

 

“Royalty” is a series mixed media drawings that takes us back to the days of where the painters lived off doing portraits of the rich and famous in order to make a decent living doing what they loved.  Jose Campeche, Francisco Oller, Lopez de Victoria, Juan Rosado, Miguel Pou and most of the Puerto Rican masters had to do this to maintain a social status and a respect level in the high class society of their era. This is a practice that has been part of the art world since the beginning, not only in Puerto Rico but in every country that has had an art scene.

 

 

This series of Royalty portraits depict famous royalty personalities in an expressionist grotesque abstraction that redefines the idea of a commissioned portrait. We can observe Nelson Figueroa’s dark humor. Much alive today this tradition has not faded and members of the high society still commission portraits for their homes. This type of paintings maintain a standard of education, power, intellectuality and a level of culture mixed with a socialite standard which reinforces that the person painted was an “important and well known” member of his era’s society.

 

 

The exhibition will run through October at TPP, We will be participating all week from Oct. 7-11 at Street Festival Los Muros Hablan curated by Alexis Diaz from La Pandilla and organized by Buena Vibra Group, led by Yariely Rodriguez and Nicole Diaz. Check out the website www.losmuroshablan.com and will be exhibit at Artejangueo on October 18^th at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. Keep checking for our schedule of the exhibition. We will do our regular stops at la Escuela de Artes Plasticas, UPR Rio Pierdas and Universidad del Sagrado Corzaon art department.

 

TPP Presents: Francisco Moreno's "One Through Fifteen"

Yes, the sense of the everyday is embedded in the line work that make up numbers; an understood definition is rooted in the stark vertical line that makes up 1. The function of these symbols is to serve as answers but in these paintings the “problem” is one with no end. If Moreno is asking anything of this work, and I’m not sure that he is, he is asking the same question that he has been asking: what do I do today? How can I make this painting, now? The art historical references are direct in Jaspers long lived love of the ordinary. But if painting is anything is it not ordinary? The work is harmless in its banality but direct in its approach. What is Moreno to do? Count. What is Moreno to do? Paint. What is Moreno to do? Walk outside and feel the scorching sun on his face. It. Is. All. The. Same.

-          Arthur Peña is an artist and professor currently living and working in Dallas, TX

 Trailer Park Proyects is proud to present Francisco Moreno's first solo exhibition in Puerto Rico. Moreno was born in Mexico City, Mexico and currently lives and works in Dallas, Texas. Recent solo exhibitions include: Dormant Subversion, Oliver Francis Gallery, TX(2012). Las Noticias, Curbs & Stoops, NY (2012). Recent group shows include: Nine Artists, Blow Up Gallery, TX (2013), New Contemporaries, Rhode Island School of Design, RI (2012), Best of the North East MFA, The Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont (2012), Hecho en Dallas, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX (2010); Francisco Moreno received his Masters of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design (2012) where he was awarded the highly selective Presidential Scholarship. In 2012 he was featured in Issue #99 of New American Paintings.

 

The exhibition will run through the month of September at TPP. We will be taking the exhibition around as usual and on our mandatory stops: University of Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras), Universidad del Sagrado Corazon and Escuela de Artes Plasticas. For more information on the dates, follow us on twitter, instagram and facebook.