Featured
Artist for December 2000 - February 2001
Featured
GiveAway
by Victor Angelo
Broom
Acrylic and enamel on wood
12
x 10" - 1999
Valued at $1200 | |
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Richard Engstrom
Baton Rouge, LA | |
Victor Angelo | Victor
Angelo is thoroughly committed to art. Born in San Diego, he pursued training
locally at the Athenaeum and University of California, as well as the School of
Visual Arts and Art Students League of New York. His amazing paintings, refined
though dynamic, take spectators into stimulating new realms of visual consciousness.
Bound to the arts from early on, he drew colorfully in preschool and was delighted
by the infinite possibilities of visual conception. During childhood he studied
a surplus of illustrious paintings ranging from early Renaissance to Modernism
on treks to museums across Europe. Adolescence saw his levels of skill advancing
rapidly from personalized tutorials in traditional still life combined with figurative
instruction at the Athenaeum. Elaborate ideas were realized, numerous awards were
won, delicacy adorned the school publication; teachers lectured about his prodigious
work in art classes. They eventually surprised him one day with a blank canvas,
brushes and loaded palette, encouraging him to proceed. His very first canvas
was publicly unveiled highlighting an exhibition at the Museum of Art in San Diego. |
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After going to the museum,
president Stephen Burns of the Art Institute felt impressed enough to invite Victor
to a solo show for the grand opening of their newly renovated downtown building.
Urbane crowds flocked to his exhibition eager to witness more of the "spectacular
creative talent" journalists also admired for its "ingenious use of
color" equipped with "high caliber sophistication in his exquisite handling
of paint."Among those in attendance was Betsy Lane from the Parisi Gallery,
Deborah Owen who later chose his works for an inaugural benefit show, following
award shows by museum executives Howard Fox, Arthur Ollman, Mary Beebe, Alma Ruiz,
Don Bacigalupi, renowned historian Dr. Donald Kuspit.
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Exhibit
at the Museum of Art
in downtown L.A. |
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Victor's paintings soon
started to appear in shows nationwide and abroad. Exhibits include the Museum
of Art and Art Institute in San Diego, Hunter Museum of American Art, Museum of
International Contemporary Art in Brazil, Flash Art Museum in Italy, Fine Arts
Museum in Japan, Musee D'Art Contemporain in France, Kunsthalle in Switzerland,
Kunsthaus in Austria, Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado, Watts Towers Art
Center and Museum of Art in downtown LA, benefit shows at posh New York galleries
of John McEnroe, Robert Miller and Sperone Westwater. Further international appearances
span from Portugal to the Netherlands to Russia in addition to countless acquisitions
from admiring collectors around the globe.
| Victor
working on his
Sonata in Autumn 1996 |
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Victor
consumes large canvases with enduring passion for hours on end. On such scale
he inhabits an ambiance informed, but not limited to, present-day reality. Multiple
facets of world cultures and the technical age are narrated through different
breeds of lines leading over emblematic contours. Victor's signature refined line
is handled in a serene rhythm using custom tailored brushes. Impeccably layered
imagery entices spectators captivated by his resonant color orchestrations. Declared
“the contemporary abstractionist who paints with astounding color and complexity”
art connoisseurs reflected upon his "exceptionally gifted capabilities as
draftsman and colorist" apparent even in his early works as being “equivalent
respectively to that of Matisse and Kandinsky”.
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Prism,
1995
Acrylic on Canvas
60" x 48" |
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Concurrently
working several paintings of various series into evolution, the prolific artist
gradually alternates canvases. Onlookers frequently perceive his subject matter
to embody movement inside physical, biological or otherworldly entities. An assortment
of interpretations readily attach to his art of open-ended metaphors. Portrayals
in his work document as they correlate layers of pensive notions. Victor reveals
the otherwise invisible flows binding humanity to its habitat by configuring varied
components in unison. Ranges of human interaction merge in novel territory that
generates meaning on diverse levels of perception. Thus his conceptions provide
both conventional and psychological depth.
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Splendor
abounds in Victor Angelo’s plush abstractions. His vital contours and lines
cascade across the vast canvases, circling, floating, puffing, swirling. The models
of perfected shape and dashing bands seem the result of daring skill and fanatic
patience as the paint mazes into natural shapes, half-calculated, half-spontaneous;
a carnality as rooted in the lush color as in the vibrant, abundant and often
suspended motion. Here action painting lacks its original essence because it somehow
knows its destination, has a kind of foresight into its own final look. That is
why Angelo’s shining ethereality directs itself so freely to apparent construction.
There is a substantial risk in his massive scale, but that is instantly brought
under control by his unification between image and convoluted space. It has abandoned
its concentration of sublime weight by turning brilliant. Victor Angelo domesticates
eternity by creating it beautiful.
Text reprinted 1999-2000, 2002 |
