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My work critiques injustice and attempts to construct a vision of a more humane, just society.
I was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of a Cuban immigrant father and a Kentuckian mother. In 1998 I participated in the Cabras Project, an artists' residency program in a small mountain village in Mexico, where I facilitated art workshops for local youth and painted my first community mural at the local kindergarten. Since then I have facilitated numerous community murals in collaboration with youth in Kentucky, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and East Harlem. I have also worked as a teaching artist for a variety of organizations in New York City, and directed an after-school program for elementary school students in Brooklyn for five years. In 2006 I joined Groundswell Community Mural Project and was the lead artist on a 4-story mural in East Harlem in collaboration with local teens. In 2007 I led a mural project involving over 200 people at the Farm Aid festival in New York City. In the Spring of 2009 I will be working on a new public art project in which I'll be painting murals on five large storm pipes in a park in Teaneck, NJ, in collaboration with local middle school students.
My artwork has been included in Artlink@Sotheby's International Young Art (an invitational auction in Tel-Aviv), as well as a variety of other venues in New York, New Jersey, Florida, and Mexico. |
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M.F.A. Illustration as Visual Essay |
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B.F.A. Fine Arts (Painting Concentration) |
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Acirema: Confronting Past and Present, Olive Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Feb. 22-27, 1993. |
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Human/Nature: Green, Black & Blue, Puffin Foundation Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ, Jan. 10 – Mar. 13, 2009
The Artists in Bank Street's Backyard, Bank Street College of Education, New York, NY, Feb. 2-28, 2009
Groundswell Community Mural Project 2008 Annual Art Auction Benefit, Affirmation Arts Ltd., New York, NY, Oct. 29, 2008.
12-Hour Marathon Fundraiser, Cuban Art Space, New York, NY, Oct. 25, 2008.
ArtCrawl Harlem, The Children's Art Carnival, New York, NY, Aug. 9-22, 2008.
It's Not Easy, Exit Art, New York, NY, July 24 - Aug. 29, 2008.
Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY, Dec. 13, 2007.
Being There, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY, Nov. 27-Dec. 16, 2006.
Unbridled, Inspiration Fine Art, New York, NY, Sept. 22-Oct. 29, 2006.
Groundswell Community Mural Project Annual Benefit and Silent Auction, Exit Art, New York, NY, Sept. 20, 2006.
Miraculous: Contemporary Exvotos Paintings, Chez TGN, Brooklyn, NY, Dec. 10, 2003-Jan. 5, 2004.
The Significant Other, Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY, Feb. 27-April 17, 1999.
El Proyecto Cabras/The Cabras Project, Universidad del Valle, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México, Oct., 1998.
Hello My Name is ——: Art in the Service of Politics & Politics in the Service of Art, Gallery at 145, St. Petersburg, FL, March 9-21, 1998.
Artlink@Sotheby's International Young Art 1998, invitational auction, Sotheby's Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Jan. 22-28, 1998.
¿Qué Pasa?, GalerÃa Boricua, Boricua College, Brooklyn, NY, June 12-Sept. 4,
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Arroz con EspÃritu: An Art Exhibition About Rice, Grady Alexis Gallery, El Taller Latinoamericano, New York, NY, May 23-June 19, 1997.
No Luck Show, Renny & RocÃo, Brooklyn, NY, Dec. 13, 1996-Jan. 6, 1997.
Eduardo Alexander Rabel / Samantha Palmeri, Eastside Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Aug. 23-Sept. 16, 1996.
M.F.A Illustration as Visual Essay Exhibition, The Art Directors Club, New York, NY, May 13-17, 1996.
The Turning Page: An Exhibition of Book Projects, The Visual Club, New York, NY, Sept. 26-Oct. 4, 1995.
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Fighting the Global Sweatshop |
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Spring, 1997, No. 1, pages 1,3 & 4 |
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"Racial Politics" (illustration) |
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July, 1996, Vol. 2, No. 2., front page |
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"Latin America Bleeds" (artwork reproduction) |
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May 1996, Vol. 1, No.1, pages 8-9 |
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