Description
Juan Travieso (born Havana, Cuba 1987), is an artist based in Miami and New York. His work explores notions of impermanence and decay through a combined language of pop,realism, and abstraction. Figures, be them humans or animals, are broken up into spaces and forms much like 3d models, speaking to both their temporality and transition into the digital age. In his recent exhibitions at The FtLauderdale and Orlando Museum of Art, Travieso transposes his work on endangered animal species with works relating to his own childhood and experiences growing up in Cuba. What were before abstractions interacting with disappearing animals are now figures of disappearing and transforming ideologies and cultures. His paintings now involve images ranging from soviet propaganda and cartoons, to the iconic figures of the Cuban revolution,but woven inside is the personal, and how these personal and cultural icons are in constant conflict and transformation. Juan Travieso is a graduate ofNew World School of the Arts in Miami Florida, Art Center College of Design inPasadena California, and received Masters of Fine Arts from the Museum School in Boston in 2013. He has had numerous exhibitions in New York, Miami,Boston, LA, as well as internationally. His work is included in multiple collections throughout the United States and other parts of the world.
Details
- Work Date:
- 2012