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Luis Barreto

(1949, El Tigrito, Venezuela) began his career in art as a teenager, studying painting, drawing and sculpture in 1968 at the Taller Libre de Arte in Anzoátegui State in eastern Venezuela. In 1971 he moved to Ciudad Bolívar to continue his studies before starting a degree in architecture at the Central University of Venezuela from […]

Guillermo Barreto

(1957- 2013) Caracas, Venezuela) Barreto is a painter who resides and works in New York City. His work has been shown in Cornell University, New York University, the Venezuelan Consulate and forms part of the permanent art collection of the Chilean Mission before the United Nations. Barreto has shown his work in both private and […]

Onofre Frías

(1953, Tacarigua de Mamporal, Venezuela) is considered one of the most prolific and versatile painters in Venezuela, whose work depicts the exuberant flora and landscape of his native country. During his more than thirty years of artistic production, Frías has experimented with a range of different materials to create his particular vision of the idiosyncracies […]

Alberto Spinetti

(1973, Caracas, Venezuela) is a sculptor and painter whose work spans a variety of media, including assemblages and free standing sculptures in bronze, iron and wood. His work is minimalist, yet colorful, featuring pared-down human figures whose melancholic, elongated forms are often accompanied by simple, geometric objects that bring to mind ancient civilizations or Mayan […]

Eduardo Agelvis

(1955, Caracas, Venezuela) is an established painter based in Venezuela’s capital city. His work is produced through experimental combinations of figurative shapes and diverse textures and colors. In his large-scale paintings, Agelvis fuses refined and stylized drawings with a variety of materials, such as oil paints, chalk, varnishes, earth, rust, and glue, among others, to […]

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