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Participaciones IV

Feb 09

Artist as Historian: A guided tour with artist Eugenio Espinoza

Date:Thursday, February 9th, 2012
Time:7:00PM - 9:00PM

 Description: Join us as Eugenio Espinoza walks the public through a personal guided tour of the exhibition Frames and Documents. Espinoza, whose works are currently on view, will share his personal history with many of the artists and their key works in the exhibition.

About Eugenio Espinoza

Eugenio Espinoza was born in 1950, in San Juan de los Morros, in central Venezuela. From 1966 to 1974, he studied at the Escuela de Artes Plasticas Cristobal Rojas and the Instituto de Diseno Newmann-Ince in Caracas. From 1977 to 1981, he lived in New York where he studied at Pratt Institute, New York University and the School of Visual Arts. In 1972, Eugenio Espinoza exhibited cut and folded canvases at the Museo de Bellas Artes and his “Impenetrable” at Ateneo de Caracas. His later conceptual works include found objects and photography. In 1985, he represented Venezuela at the Bienal de São Paulo. His work in included in the collections of the Galeria de Arte Nacional, Museo de Bellas Artes, and Museo Alejandro Otero in Caracas; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Museo de Arte Moderna, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Miami Art Museum, in Miami, Florida; and several prestigious private and corporate collections. Awarded CIFO Grants and Commissions in 2007 and Pollock-Krasner Foundation 2010-2011 Grant.

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