Trienal de San Juan Opening @ Galeria Nacional April 27

TPP participated in the official opening of the Trienal Poligrafica de San Juan yesterday April 27th. We were spotted right in front of the entrance of La Galeria Nacional and we sere exhibiting our monthly silkscreen prints and Melvin Martinez project El Material.

All prints are available for sale at $50 signed by the artist and numbered to 50. We released a new small format silkscreen as part of Melvin's El Material exhibition. There are a limited edition silkscreen run of 200 of single baggies with green and white color glitter at only $10 each. The other is a 3 baggie silkscreen signed by the artist and numbered to 40 of each color. We also have available the usual original glitter baggies for $6 each.

Here are a couple of photographs of the opening. We will be at El Arsenal de La Puntilla today starting at 6:00pm.

 Students Group of Arecibo Artist Noin Rivera

 Shot of our Trailer in front of landmark La Iglesia San Jose

 Shot of our Trailer parked in front of La Galeria Nacional.

 One of our most important conceptual artist Carlos Irizarry visited the Trailer and was impressed with the works of our ounger generations.

From left to Right: Arlette de la Serna (Assistant Curator Museo de Arte de Ponce), Rebeca Noriega (Associate curator of La Trienal de San Juan), Pedro Velez (Artist and Art Critic) and Cheryl Hartup (Cheif Curator of the Museo de Arte de Ponce) in front of Trailer Park Proyects.

Collector Rosalia Ugobono and artist Melvin Martinez in front of Trailer Park Proyects.

 Paco Barragan (Curator, Art Critic and Blogger) and Carla Avecedo Yates (Curator, Art Critic and Blogger) visit www.dawire.com and check it out.

Group of kids look at Melvon Martinez's golden briefcase sculpture from his exhibition El Material.

Trailer Park Proyects @ la Trienal Poligrafica de San Juan.

TPP is proud to announce that we will be participating at the opening ceremonies of La 3ra Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan on April 28-30. We are very proud of our accomplishments and our monthly prints/graphics project. We have been producing limited edition silkscreen of the most important young artists of Puerto Rico since July 2011 and offering them to the general public at $50 with our mission “Art for Everyone”.

April 27th at La Galeria Nacional starting at 6:00pm

April 28th at El Arsenal de La Puntilla in the outdoor patio from 6:00pm

April 29th at La Cancha de La Perla for el Caldo de Oro starting 12:00pm

We will be presenting all the prints we have produced up to date. The participating artists are Brian Rivera, Omar Velazquez, Radames Juni Figueroa, Rafael Miranda, Bobby Cruz, Karlo Ibarra, Stencil Network (Juan Ramon Gutierrez), Jesus Bubu Negron and our latest print from artist Rimx titled "Caradura" for the month of March  which we will oficially release after this event

We would like to thank our team at the print shop Omar Velazquez and Rafael Miranda which are the master printers and the ones in charge that the project runs smoothly.

We will be selling all the prints produced to date at the event. Remember each print @ $50 and they are a limited edition of 50 signed by the artist and numbered.

Don’t miss this great event where the most promising and important graphic artists from Latin-American will be exhibiting works. This is a great opportunity to see all the best in the same place.

See you there.

Tomorrow at TOSTADO they will be exhibiting all our silkscreen prints...

Tomorrow Friday Arpil 20th, TOSTADO will be celebrating the event 420. TOSTADO is a hip coffe house where you can get primium quality coffe at any time. You can also have some of their artistic breads and butters or you could go for a string rice and beans with grilled chicken main course.

It is located right besides the Universidad del Sagrados Corazon in calle Sagrado Corazon the place with the small yellow car on top. Be sure to get there tomorrow after works. There will be live music by DJ Talavera, munchies by Chef RB, special tapas and picadera and live Painting by Edgardo Larregui and La Ele createing the now famous mural in front of the Cafe.

Starts at 4:30 with a closing at 11:00pm. Don't miss it.

Michael Scoggins exhibition "Colonialism" at the Sacred Heart University and University of Puerto Rico.

Today April the 18th. TPP presented Micahel Scoggins solo exhibition "Colonialism" at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazon in Santurce and the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus and had quitea big turn around of students. We visited the respective art departments in campus and the art teachers at the moment were kind enough to let all their students off early of class to visit the trailer.

At Sagrado Corazon, Contemporary Art Appreciation teacher and artist Catherine Matos-Olivo brought down the whole class and spoke about Michael's work in what turned out to be a great insight of his work for all students.

Afterwards we rolled down to the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus which is the oldest and most important University in Puerto rico as it is the State College with different campuses all around the Island. Teachers/artists Nathan Budoff, BrendaVargas, Nestor Millan, Martin Garcia were among the teachers that toured their students to see the exhibition.

Right after finishing the expo at the UPR, We were invited across the street by young businessman and collector Antonio Castro for a free tasting of his home-made organic yogurt, after a small introduction of the company and the products, he personally handed samples of their most popular flavors (Strawberry and Mango) to all sutdents and teachers that attended.

It was a great expereince and great to support local business and work together.

April 18: TPP @ Univ. Sagrado Corazon and UPR (Rio Piedras)

Michael Scoggin's solo drawing exhibition: Colonialsim. April 18th, 2012

TPP will be visiting the Universidad del Sagrado Corazon from 9:30am -12:00pm in the parking lot near the art department in the back.

Afterwards we will travel to the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus and show the exhibition from 12:30pm - 3:30pm.

At 3:30pm young collector and business man Antonio Castro owner of the only organic yogurt manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico (www.organicayogurt.com) for a product tasteing of his company's different products. The plant is located across the street of the UPR Art School.

This promises to be a great outing and new way to know local products and companies which we should support.
See you there and come hungry.

TPP Presents Michael Scoggins' "Colonialism"

It’s not every day that I get to work on an exhibition with one of my favorites artists. On this occasion Trailer Park Proyects is proud to present Colonialism a small format individual exhibition by New York based artist Michael Scoggins. The exhibition’s title emphasizes on the Island’s current political situation as well as the republican presidential race which has brought to Puerto Rico visit by front runners Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum which came to the Island looking for support but by speaking of some untouchable subjects regarding our culture, status and language they are making fools out of themselves. Michael presents this politically filled exhibition where we can see and appreciate his political message and understand it is not only for the USA but his works are much more relevant to Puerto Rico situation as well.

I have followed the career of Michael ever since I started working in the art world and it blew my mind away the first time I read about his works on New American Paintings publication where he was featured while a student at Savannah College of Art and Design. I couldn’t figure out the works right then and there because the dimensions of his works are not easy to imagine even if you read them. When looking at drawings that look like a 10 year old did them it is not easy to imagine them in a big scale as Michel’s drawings. The paper looks like an 8x11 loose leaf but when you see the real thing you understand that the paper is a handmade loose leaf that looks like it was torn off a trapper keeper of a 20 foot giant.

The first time I actually saw one of his works in person was at Circa 06 Art Fair in the Puerto Rico Convention Center. I immediately fell in love with his work and the realness and honesty in it. I had long been a fan of works by Daniel Johnston and Raymond Pettibon and Manuel Hernandez Acevedo, Jose Ruiz and Stanley Coll locally. Their naïve style is very childish but all of their works are about their insecurities and views on topics ranging from politics to family.

I searched for Michael through the internet for years without luck but I remembered my friend Javier Acosta whom is an artist and an art teacher at Universidad del Sagrado Corazon and the University of Puerto Rico, Recinto de Carolina who studied with him at Savannah and he got a hold of his contact number and bought a small drawing from him for my personal collection.

This is a drawing exhibition where Michael will show more than 10 pieces that are mostly studies for the bigger pieces. The drawings exhibited, have political content and contain in them an inner look at Michael’s thoughts and views of certain social problems and personal situations.

Scoggins who graduated with a MFA from Savannah and also was granted a fellowship at Skowhegen Art School in NYC which is one of the most sought after residencies for emerging artists. His are part of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York (http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?artistFilterInitial=E&criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A28799&page_number=1&template_id=10&sort_order=1), Hammer Museum in Los Angles as well as the Telfair Museum in Georgia. He also won the emerging artist prize at Pulse Art Fair in 2003.

Last year when we dicided to do this show, he was the resident artist at Savannah where he conducted a project called a drawing a day where he left a small drawing daily on his studio door for people to pick up free of charge on a first come first serve basis. After a few weeks some students started leaving drawings in his door as exchange for the ones he was giving away and the project took its own mutation and reinvented itself to a free artwork exchange between students. I actually sent drawings from Puerto Rican artists Aby Ruiz (www.abyruiz.com), Admin Torres (www.admintorres.com) and Aslan (www.aslanblogger.blogspot.com) to participate in that great initiative of a project. Michael was kind enough to send me a few small drawings of his and from some of the students at Savannah. After that nice gesture I knew I had to work at some point in my career with him and here we are a few days before opening.

He is currently represented by a fist full of galleries including Saltworks (www.saltwork.com) where I went to see his exhibition titled Family Values and I reviewed it for Trance Liquido check out the link to the article. (http://www.tranceliquido.com/family-values-exhibicion-individual-del-artista-michael-scoggins/) Also represented by Freight & Volume Gallery in New York City where he currently has a solo exhibition (http://www.freightandvolume.com/artists/michael-scoggins/). This show was opened during the Armory weekend fair show and was reviewed as one of the best exhibitions parallel to the Armory in many blogs. He is also represented by Diana Lowenstein (www.dlfinearts.com) with whom he exhibited at Circa 06 and 08 in Puerto Rico, Adler and compamy (www.adlerandco.com), Hilger Contemporary (www.hilgercontemporary.com) in Austria and Semoi and Tuus Gallery (www.semoituus.com) in Korea.

If you wish to see more of Michael’s works you can go to his blog http://michaelscogginsins.tumblr.com/ where you will be able to see a really great variety of all his works and past exhibitions.

I hope you will enjoy this show which will travel through the local art departments of the Metro Area College Campuses and art related activities.

To see all the works that will be exhibited please LIKE our Facebook page and search in the photo albums for Michael Scoggins -  Clonialism

February Limited Edition Print by Jesus Bubu Negron - Zona de Tiroteo

We are proud to present our February silkscreen limited edition print by artist Jesus Bubu Negron.

Coming of a great year after his Low Budget Series exhibition that created a great hype, this solo show was shown at Trailer Park Proyects and Chemi's Room with great success. He is currently exhibiting his individual exhibition titled "Jackpot Series" at Roberto Paradise Gallery www.robertoparadise.com

Today Bubu gives us a reality check with this new print titled "Zona de Tiroteo" which is a recent problem we have been having in the Island as the Tsunami size wave like that keeps hitting the Island in an crime infested country where police are unable to do anything and the unreliable judicial system keeps giving breaks to criminals and murderes.

This print which shows us a street sign with 2 cars, one shooting the other making a social critique to the current situation we are living in. It's so contemporary and new that while finishing the last details of the print, a drive by shooting took place at El Tunel Minillas in Santurce which is one of the most transited highways in the Island and a very traffic jam zone.

Don't forget to get your limited edition print which is signed and numbered to 50 by the artist. This is part of TPP idea of selling art at affordable prices by todays most important young artists. ONLY $50.