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FEATURED ARTIST
Jorge Posada is a painter, sculptor, printmaker
and photographer who lives and works in New
York. Posada has earned awards from prominent
institutions including the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Bogota, Colombia and the Atlantic Center for
the Arts in Daytona, Florida. He was awarded a six year
scholarship at the Lower East Side Print Shop and an
Honorable Mention at Expresiones Hispanas Art tour
USA. His artwork was showcased on Channel 13 in the
documentary The New Immigrants. In 2004, Posada
created a 1.500 sq ft mural titled Homage to the Arts as
part of the renovation of the Ritz Theater in Elizabeth,
New Jersey.
His art has evolved into a less realistic depiction of
the human figure: a cross between figuration and
abstraction. He masters a mixed-media of charcoal,
acrylic and oil on canvas to create his compositions by
building up carefully placed transparencies of color.
Posada works in series which address the human form
in a dynamic and constant flux.
Currently Posada divides his time between USA,
Europe and Colombia to study the masters he admires
and to exhibit his artwork. Posada’s work is in mayor
private and public collections in the USA, Europe,
Japan and Latin America and has been published in
numerous art books.
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JORGE POSADA
LEFT: EMBRASING THE SHADOW
RIGHT: THE ERECTION OF THE CROSS I