About The Artist

I was born in Yauco, Puerto Rico. I completed my Art Education at Cooper School of Art, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. I have exhibited my paintings for over forty years throughout the United States and abroad. Like Rosenquist, I painted billboards for an outdoor media company. Painting on such a large scale influenced the size of my art, which I found an essential factor in its impact on the viewer. Some of the murals used extensions on the perimeters of the billboard, enhancing their ideas, which led me to shape my paintings. I was fascinated with Photorealism and the Pop Art era. I generated an innovative concept of combining simple everyday objects using Photorealism, eliminating the background, and enlarging the object to make a unique statement. My paintings are oil on shaped canvas, hand-painted and executed to look like an airbrush technique. I blend my Photorealistic style with Pop Art to transform a two-dimensional surface into a three-dimensional illusion.  

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