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10<br />
Juan-Manual Alonso<br />
Journey in the Subconscious<br />
Long silver hair flowing, Juan-Manuel Alonso is a popular runaway<br />
model, known to get the attention of everyone in the audience. At the<br />
height of his modeling career, Juan-Manuel traveled and worked for<br />
fashion houses through out the world. After leaving full time modeling,<br />
he turned to the business world. He worked with fashion and design<br />
houses from Tiffany to WilliWear. The corporate world held little sway<br />
over him and soon Juan-Manuel embarked on his life’s passion, art.<br />
Juan-Manuel came to Palm Springs in <strong>20</strong>08 following the transition of<br />
his parents. “I drove from<br />
Miami to Palm Springs<br />
searching for a quiet place<br />
to paint. Once here I found<br />
beauty and artistic freedom<br />
that I had not experienced”,<br />
continued Juan-Manuel.<br />
This Cuban born, New York<br />
educated, world citizen<br />
sees his surroundings,<br />
interprets them through<br />
his subconscious and<br />
translates that passion on to<br />
canvas. Bold colors, surreal,<br />
mystical and symbolic, the<br />
works are commentary on<br />
the physical and the metaphysical<br />
worlds he straddles.<br />
“I want the viewer’s eye to<br />
go on a road trip, guided<br />
by my hand. I want the<br />
viewer to observe my work<br />
as if he or she traveled into<br />
the subconscious space. I<br />
want the viewer to release<br />
and allow their eye to travel<br />
around the canvas. There<br />
is much to be taken in with<br />
my work. It is the journey my<br />
viewer takes with me”, said<br />
Juan –Manuel.<br />
“I pluck ideas for my work<br />
as if they were wild flowers”<br />
said Juan-Manuel. “What<br />
I see is arranged in my<br />
imagination and categorized,<br />
not by monetary value but<br />
the intrinsic value that makes<br />
the object beautiful.” For<br />
him, inspiration comes from<br />
everywhere: the flowers of<br />
North Africa, the Art Deco<br />
architecture of Miami’s South<br />
Beach, the Kasbahs of the<br />
Middle East, the mid-century<br />
lifestyle of Palm Springs. His<br />
passion comes from deep<br />
inside his soul.<br />
These days, with Nynja,<br />
his Xoloitzcuintli, an exotic<br />
Mexican hairless dog, Juan-Manuel lives his life to create his art.<br />
Wherever he may travel it is to Palm Springs that he returns. His work<br />
resides in private and public collection around the world. Locally, Gallery<br />
446, in Palm Springs, represents him. Juan-Manuel’s work “Am Still<br />
Here” was selected for the Palm Springs Art Museum Artist Council<br />
Exhibition. When not painting, Juan-Manual is an art- mentor to local<br />
high school students. He also volunteers with Desert AIDS Project.<br />
What is next for Juan-Manuel? “I will never stop being an Artist. I see<br />
beauty all around. Where my work will go, is only limited by the viewers’<br />
imagination.”<br />
Angela Romeo is the producer /host of COLLIDING WORLDS TV<br />
and COLLIDING WORLDS RADIO. For more information visit<br />
www.collidingworldstvandart.com<br />
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www.youtube.com/user/AngelaValenteRomeo<br />
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www.vimeo.com/collidingworldstv<br />
PhOTO By DImITRI hAlkIDIS<br />
By Angela Romeo<br />
For more information on Juan-Manuel Alonso visit www. facebook.<br />
com/juan manuel.alonso.7 or gallery446.com/collect/jalanso.htmlv<br />
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