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Pedro Vélez
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Untitled (Didactic), 2004
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Velez's tough, aggressive and profane drawings create highly personal languages, both visual and verbal. The drawings are cryptic, with invented language, including terms like Lamb UC, Bushit. RASF, with wilful misspellings, all scrawled with crude materials in mostly crude forms, sometimes leavened with delicate grace notes. Velez recently relocated to Puerto Rico after 5 fruitful and tempestuous years in Chicago. These drawings reflect on his Chicago/Puerto Rico experiences, at least the negative ones, as he seems to equate Chicago with Hell. Yet they also seem to speak to his frustration with the world at large, with semi-veiled attacks at Bush and his continued assault on Pierre Huyghe and Phillippe Perreno and their retirement of the Ann Lee project. Not all is negative as some of the drawings might be exalting in sexual energy.
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Untitled (Didactic), 2004
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Pedro Vélez makes drawings and photographs, which incorporate stylized text, educational systems, the urban landscape, and heavy metal attitude.
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Untitled (Didactic), 2004
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Divi Sorrow, 2004
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Divi Sorrow, 2004
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Pedro Vélez (b. 1972) is currently vacationing in Puerto Rico. Recent exhibitions include Spacemakers (curated by Courtenay Smith and Brett Bloom) Lothringer Dreizen, Germany; Don't call it Performance (curated by Deborah Cullen and Paco Barragán), Museo del Barrio, NYC, and Domus Atrium 2, Salamanca; Lumpen Decadents, Ingalls Associates Galery. His work has been reviewed in The Miami Herald, Frieze, Collezioni Italy, and Noctambulo among others.
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Untitled (Didactic), 2004
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