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| Reception: April 3, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. |
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Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery is pleased to present our third solo exhibition of New York painter Ricardo Mazal. Born in Mexico City in 1950 Mazal moved to Barcelona Spain in 1986, and since 1990 has lived and worked in New York City and Santa Fe New Mexico. In 1999 Mazal won the prestigious Creador Artistico award from the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, (FONCA), in Mexico. In 2000 he had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey Mexico. In 2004 He had a solo exhibition ‘La Tumba de la Reina Roja’ at the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe NM that traveled to the Museo National de anthropologia in Mexico City. This exhibition was inspired by a major archaeological find at the ancient Mayan ceremonial complex of Palenque in the state of Chiapas Mexico. In March 2006 Mr. Mazal had a major survey exhibition covering his work from 1994 to 2006 at the Museo de Arte Moderno at
Chapultipec Park in Mexico City.
Mazal’s past work has explored the process of visual perception as it takes form in human consciousness. His paintings express the passage of time, not by illustrating events but by leaving their visual residue to dissipate in space like a still photograph of a speeding object blurred to abstraction. His newest work pursues a merging of both digital imaging with his formidable skill as a painter.
Mazal begins with a series of digitally captured photographs, which he processes on a computer and after removing, adding and mutating color and forms he translates the composition into the analogue media of oil paint on canvas, colored ink drawings as well as monotypes.
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