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Autoretrato
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Verduras
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Rafael Ferrer left his native Puerto Rico at an early age to attend
school in the United States. After attending Syracuse University and
studying art at the University of Puerto Rico, Ferrer moved to New York
in the early 1950's to work as a musician. Ferrer has worked with a broad
range of media including sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, and
performance art.
In many of his paintings and prints, Rafael Ferrer depicts
lush and colorful images from the Dominican Republic, where he spends six
months every year. At Tandem he created traditional and Japanese inspired
woodblock prints.
According to Elvehjem curator Drew Stevens: "It is
interesting to compare Verduras and Oriente Tropical, for while both
explore Ferrer's interest in Japanese printmaking, the end results are
prints with quite different effects; while Oriente Tropicale is Ferrer's
interpretation of a traditional Japanese woodcut, Verduras uses the
traditional techniques to interpret one of Ferrer's paintings. The
result is a continuing dialogue between the artist and the tradition."
See biography for a full listing of collections and exhibitions
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