Rafael ferrer philadelphia

He has received wide recognition as an avant-garde artist, his work being referred to as neo-Dadaism and Anti-Art. The mediums Mr. Ferrer has worked in include sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, and performance art.

Quotations: "An artist noted for his simple and very straight forward style. Always working directly from life, his images are brightly colored figures. He presents a kind of sophisticated naive style. Looking for a job? Back to Profile. Photos Works. Main Photo. Rafael Ferrer.

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Awards Add photo. Other Photos Add photo. Other photo of Rafael Ferrer. Connections Add photo. Leaf Piece North Pole Traitor 41 El Cantante I El Poeta The Quartet La Escena Traitor 40 El Gran Teatro de la Luna Vividly colored aluminum acrobats tumble and cavort.

Pina I La Farona II Elegia para un Amigo III The white one is winning Nocturno Criollo en Fan Fan's Conquista de la Soledad Recondo La Gallina Mercado Sombrero de Palma The Barbeque Dulzura Atardecer Calor Rafael Ferrer was Philadelphia-based for many years, teaching at University of the Arts and University of Pennsylvania and creating what he created.

A survey of of his works on paper to date, curated by Edith Newhall who writes about Contemporary Art for the Inquirer, is currently at the Lancaster Museum of Art until Nov. I am unable to get to Lancaster, but fortunately a catalog accompanies the exhibit. The Puerto Rico-born Ferrer already had an international reputation when Newhall first encountered him.

She was a student when he came to speak at her class at Moore College; Newhall was instantly star struck. Her introductory essay for the catalog is worth its weight in gold, delivering a picture of the artist as a human being along with a picture of the artist as a maker of art.

She gives a sense of a large-spirited man, a charmer who gathered people around him. He had a retrospective at El Museo del Barrio in and early in his career in had solo shows at the Whitney and at the ICA here.

He has had numerous awards—two from the National Endowment for the Arts, and from Pew, Guggenheim and more. As a contrast, it is worth noting here that Schwabsky also did a wonderful hour-long interview with Ferrer that can be found on YouTube. Politics are just below the surface along with love, sensuality and hatred oh, lordy, he attacks Yale, Alex Katz, and Chuck Close with astonishing vitriol. The work that shines through in the catalog is highly personal and emotion-filled.

I especially adored the maps that suggest Puerto Rico and some of the poster-like works filled with words and images. I would love to see them in person. The show includes notebook sketches from the s as well as prints, drawings, collages and watercolors. I would have liked more information about the images—in some cases the titles and dates, and in most cases the media and scale.