Pedro Velez
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Puertorican-Jew, wall collage, 2006-07
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Pedro Veléz (b. Puerto Rico, 1971) obtained his M.F.A. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and his B.A. in Communications at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico. As an artist, curator and writer, whose work adopts a multi-disciplinary approach, incorporating collage, painting, sculpture, photography, posters and web-based projects. He challenges the context and intent of art making, curatorial decisions and institutional settings by producing fake exhibition announcements, developing on-going fictional narratives on myspace.com, publishing art journals and creating itinerant presentations with the group the FGA (a.k.a Fucking Good Art) that may occur in the virtual realm or in alternative spaces.
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from Godfuck series
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detail (ink, postcard, acrylic on Benetton banner)
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Fake Show #6, 1999
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Selected exhibitions include:
Epilepsy, Pegatina, and Adult Porn at Plush Gallery in Dallas (2007), GODFUCK at Galería Comercial, Puerto Rico, and Western Exhibitions, Chicago, The Earth is Flat, Lifebomb Gallery, Berlin, Manic and Wasted, LMCC/Swing Space, New York, Constant Disturbance: On Cultural Contamination and Foreign Agents (2006), and Cute Girls, Heavy Metal, Sports and Hope at the Museo de las Americas, Puerto Rico and TBA, (Thomas Blackman Associates), Exhibition Space, Chicago (2002).
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"The most intellectually engaging piece is debts, a collage that includes a photo of naval cadets, a nun teaching a class of adolescent girls and a Madonna. In this case, the title steers the content of the piece to contemplation of the burden of received wisdom. The primacy of institutions weighs heavy, but the open, willing faces of the boys and girls do not reveal any sense of burden. The gender segregation is in keeping with the alienation between men and women in Vélez’ other work. One is left to wonder what form debt will take and what price will be demanded."
from review by Kevin Bouchard at Art Lies
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