JosePablo Serrano
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I was born on Dec 26, 1972 in Bucaramanga, a Colombian city located on the North East of the Andes range. Soon my family moved to Bogota and that is where I spend my childhood and started my love affair with the arts. At school I would be making caricatures mocking my peers and teachers, and drawing funny cartoons that depicted the occult, World War II, strange creatures, Colombian Culture and erotica.
On 1988 my family moved to Boca Raton, USA. There, in High School, I enrolled the Art Class. That class challenged me to develop my techniques and I participated and won some contests that open me to the possibility of making a life doing art.
On a summer vacation I went to Colombia and was drafted into that country’s Army. I was deployed on the Israeli-Egyptian border. Some free weekends instead of partying on the Occidentalized cities of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, I would go West bound across the desert to Cairo and spend hours in awe with the artistic treasures of the Egyptian Museum. There I learned that Art was more than a representation of forms but a whole cluster of ideas that determined cultures.
After the service I enrolled at the University of Los Andes taking classes on musical studies, literature and majoring in Fine Arts. While in school I spent a season in Paris, France and a short romantic trip to Saint Petersburg, Russia. In the museums and different exhibitions, I was exposed to the Classics, the Impressionists, the art of the XX century Avant Garde ( including a curious but revealing exhibition on Socialist Realism and Nazi Art) I was especially interested with the Surrealist movement, Picasso and Gauguin. From that experience I started to develop my technique and the theories that will be delved into my work.
Back in school I started working on my thesis. Instead of working on a concept to illustrate, it was centered on a personal method based on automatic writing and a primitive approach to symbolism on the representation. Based on the Cadavre Exquis, Jazz improvisation, writings of Jack Kerouac, Mircea Eliade and Carl Jung and Eisenstein’s montage theory.
After finishing school, I have participated on different exhibitions in Colombia and the Fort Lauderdale area. Worked as a decorative painter on murals and faux finish, that experience helped me to develop my technique and knowledge on color theory and materials. For 10 years I held a position as a professor at UNAB in Bucaramanga lecturing on Art History and Aesthetics for the Literature, Communication and Visual Arts programs. There I started to fathom on Modernism, Romanticism and their relationship with Gothic art….
Paintings on sale:
Drifting on the Breeze. Acrylic on canvas. 2020 24” x 36”. Price $500
Frog Prayer. Oil on canvas. 2020. 29” x 37 ½”. Price $800
Gay Pasley
Gay Pasley is a professional nurse, an award winning community leader and photographer whose artistry is featured in Loud Zoo, Abstract Magazine and Maintenant 11 & 12: A Journal of Dada Writing and Art and a regular contributor to Art Mama Moves. She is a recent graduate of the Oklahoma City Red- Earth MFA Program and has presented as
Gay Pasley is a professional nurse, an award winning community leader and photographer whose artistry is featured in Loud Zoo, Abstract Magazine and Maintenant 11 & 12: A Journal of Dada Writing and Art and a regular contributor to Art Mama Moves. She is a recent graduate of the Oklahoma City Red- Earth MFA Program and has presented as lecturer for organizations such as the International Association of Forensic Nurses, Society for Photographic Education, the Ralph Ellison Foundation and the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation, Scissortail Writing Festival. Gay has publications appearing or forthcoming in Thread Literary Magazine, Hard Crackers Press, Elsewhere Magazine, Amistad, Transitions, Snapdragon: A Journal of Healing, Morkan’s Horse, Minola Review, Flatbush Review and Obsidian; Cliterature and Arts in the African Diaspora. Gay’s photography and writing seek to capture the under-reported experiences and challenges of what it is to be a working class woman of color.
Frances Salbarrey
Frances Salbarrey is an artist, born and raised in Florida. She began
to receive schooling in art during her high school years. On the weekends,
she would attend painting courses at Human Horizons School of Visual Art in Miami, Fl.
In 1998, Frances graduated from LaSalle High School in Miami, Fl. She was accepted into
Int'l Fine Arts College
Frances Salbarrey is an artist, born and raised in Florida. She began
to receive schooling in art during her high school years. On the weekends,
she would attend painting courses at Human Horizons School of Visual Art in Miami, Fl.
In 1998, Frances graduated from LaSalle High School in Miami, Fl. She was accepted into
Int'l Fine Arts College(The Fall of 1998), which would later become part of Art Institute of Miami.
While in attendance, Frances studied Visual Art with a concentration in Drawing and Painting. She graduated
from IFAC in 2001 with a BFA in Visual Arts.
Frances has exhibited her work in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.
At this time, she is drawing and painting portraits of celebrities, civil rights activists and pop culture icons and
combining said portraits with a comic book, graphic style to give social commentary to the modern Resistance Movement.
Furthermore, Frances is looking into The Torah, Kabbalah and ancient Judaic History and writings to learn, if possible,
shed light on, the role of Woman in ancient culture and how said role became perverted and reduced to aspiring housekeeper
and homemaker in modern times.
