Artist's Statement
I started coming to Rehoboth the summer of 1985. I was young, in love and from a country where flaunting one's sexuality was strictly for heterosexuals, and any kind of liberty was still restricted by government. When I saw Poodle Beach, my eyes got wet. Such freedom I could not even dream of.
The tyrant was killed in 1961, and with him died the persecution of my family. Free, my grandparents bought an old Victorian house in the center of an enormous garden. I was twelve. For the next two years, which at that age were very long, I lived in that garden. It became the accomplice of all my plots and dreams. It became a refuge, a friend hard to forget. There I learned how green is shaded by red. How, without direct light, yellows become brown. How purple unveils its reds and blues in a transparency. And black does not exist. I learned that small things can make a big context and vice versa. I learned that the character of man is as complex as nature. In 1997 I was granted citizenship by the Government of the United States as an Exceptional Individual of International Renown.
Individual Exhibits
2002 Artist's Museum, Washington, D.C.
1999 Peabody Galleries, San Francisco, CA.
1995 Museo de Las Casas Reales, Santo Domingo
1992 Museo National de Arte Modemo, Santo Domingo
1990 Lowe Gallery. Atlanta, GA.
1989 Carlton Cobb Gallery, Atlanta GA.
1988 La Galeria, Santo Domingo
1987 Cameron Cob Gallery, atlanta GA.
1986 La Galeria, Santo Domingo
1983 Centro de Arte Noueau, Santo Domingo
1982 Casa de La Cultura Hispanica, Dominican Republic
1982 Altos de Chavon, La Romana, Dominican Republic
1981 Puerto Plata Art, Dominican Republic
1979 Centro de Cultura, Santiago, Dominican Republic
1979 Centro de La Cultura, Santiago, Dominican Republic
1974 Centro Cultural Dominicano, Santo Domingo.
Group and Museum Exhibits
1999 Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
1998 Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, D.C.
1998 Ada Balcacer Gallery, Santo Domingo
1996 George Mason University, Virginia
1994 Brazilian Cultural Institute, Washington, D.C.
1994 AT&T, Washington, D.C.
1993 Mexican Cultural Insititute, Washington, D.C.
1991 IDB Nagoya, Japan
1988 Cuban Museum of Art, Miami, FL
1985 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
1983 Valparaiso Biennial, Chile
1981 Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo
1977 Michigan Council for the Arts
1976 Museo del Hombre Dominicano
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