Roberto Juarez, Large Colorful 1983 Neo Expressionist Roberto Juarez Oil Painting Tron Family, 1983

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Roberto Juarez, (American, 1952- )
Tron Family.
1983. Signed, dated & titled.
Oil and oil stick on canvas.

Provenance: Robert … more Roberto Juarez, (American, 1952- )
Tron Family.
1983. Signed, dated & titled.
Oil and oil stick on canvas.

Provenance: Robert Miller Gallery, NY., Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, CA

Roberto Juarez (born 1952) is an American visual artist known for his paintings, murals, and mixed-media works.
Born in Chicago, (parents of both Mexican and Puerto Rican Latino heritage) Juarez received his B.F.A. at the San Francisco Art Institute (1977) and pursued graduate studies in Television and Film at the University of California, Los Angeles. Juarez frequently employs painterly floral motifs, which are inspired by the traditions of Hispanic, Latin American and non-Western painting. Roberto Juarez has been a significant presence in the art worlds of New York, Miami, Colorado, and beyond since the early 1980s. In 1978, Juarez completed his graduate thesis for UCLA in Paris and decided not to return to L.A. Juarez relocated to New York City, where in 1981, Ellen Stewart offered Juarez a former garage owned by La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club as an artist studio. The space, which had no water or electricity, was offered to Juarez rent-free, provided that he clean and maintain it. He was active in the Neo Expressionist era of the the late 1980's along with Julian Schnabel and David Salle.
Throughout the 80s and 90s Juarez painted the branching forms of trees and flowers. While living in Miami in the 90s, Juarez began to incorporate peat moss, rice paper, and other natural materials in his canvases. Since 2000, and his move from Miami back to New York, Juarez's imagery turned more abstract, typically featuring geometric forms and systems. In a review from this period, art critic Grace Glueck noted that his works feature “a contrast between the softness of the grounds – blends of transparent and opaque materials in muted colors – and their strong geometric-organic motifs." In his use of elements of nature to portray an idyllic unity, Juarez looks back to such early-20th-century painters as Franz Marc and Henri Matisse.
He has done prints with Shark’s Ink Studios in Lyons and Anderson Ranch Arts Center as well as Tamarind Institute.
Roberto Juarez is a visual artist who has been active in the areas of painting, printmaking, drawing, and large-scale public commissions throughout his career.
His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Mexico, and is included in major museum collections such as the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, the Denver Art Museum, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Newark Museum, and the Speed Art Museum. He has completed public art projects and murals for the Miami International Airport, Grand Central Terminal, the Miami-Dade County Courthouse, Whitman College, and the University of Michigan College of Engineering.
Juarez won the Prix de Rome in 1997 and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001-2002.

Select Solo Exhibitions

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
Pace Prints New York, NY
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, KS
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL, Bonnie Clearwater, Curator and Author
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico
Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Andre Emmerich Gallery, Zurich
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Select Group Exhibitions
2018 May China 2018, China National Academy of Painting, Beijing, China
2017 Love Among the Ruins, 56 Bleecker Gallery and Late 80's New York, Howl! Arts Incorporated, New York, NY
2015 Inside the Episode: curated by Jack Pierson, Launch F18 Gallery, New York, NY
2015 MTA Arts Design Illustrates the City, The Museum of American Illustration at The Society of Illustrators, New York
2015 The Annual; National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2008 One of a Kind; Monoprints & Monotypes, Spencertown Academy Art Center, Spencertown, New York
2001 Roberto Juarez and Julio Galan: Marks of Transcendence, Richard L. Nelson Gallery
1999 Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, Minnesota
1998 Roberto Juarez and Johan Creten, Galerie Tobias Hirschmann, Frankfurt, Germany
1996 Kingdom of Flora, Shoshana Wayne, Santa Monica, CA
1993 Drawing the Line Against AIDS, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
1991 Nature Morte, Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
1991 Roberto Juarez and Frederic Amat, Staller Center for the Arts, State University of New York at Stony Brook
1984 An International Survey of Recent Paintings and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1984 American Neo Expressionists, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1983 Hispanic Achievement in the Arts, The Equitable Gallery
1983 Intoxication, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Painting, Sculptures, Totems, Tony Shafrazi, New York, NY
1983 Printmaking / New Talent, Castelli Graphics, New York, NY
1983 Art On Paper 1983, Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC
1982 Selected Works, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Six Painters from Robert Miller, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1981 New Wave, Institute for Art and Urban Resources at P.S.1, New York, NY
1981 Summer Group Show, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY less