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Fernando Ureña Rib Opens Art Studio - Will Open in Miami

Fernando Ureña Rib will open to the public his new Art Studio in Miami, with an exhibition of his most recent oil paintings, on Friday February 28. An opening reception and cocktail will be offered by the interior design international magazine Casa & Estilo at Courts Courvoisier, 701 Brickell Key Boulevard, Suite F.

Fernando Ureña Rib is well known in the Latin-American artistic and cultural melieu. The Dominican artist has presented exhibitions in art museums and galleries In more than 20 countries around the world. The artist have similar studios in Montreal, Canada and Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. The exhibition can be visited from 12:00 M to 8: 00 PM.

Biographical Data:

Born in La Romana, Dominican Republic, in 1951, Fernando Ureña Rib began his art training at the age of twelve cumulating with a degree and designation as Professor of Drawing from the National School of Fine Arts in Santo Domingo. (1968) During his post graduate work he studied with Jaime Colson, a recognized master of Dominican Painting (1969-1971) In the early seventies he lived and studied in Spain. (1973-1976) During this time he traveled extensively throughout Europe and North Africa developing a more comprehensive understanding of fine arts as cultural expression. In 1977 he received an invitation from the State Department of the United States to acquaint himself with the major museums, universities art schools and galleries of this country. Returning to the Dominican Republic he was named Director of the Art Department of APEC University (1978) and later he was appointed Public Relations Director of the National Museum of Modern Art (1981)

Fernando UREÑA RIB’S work has been exhibited in museums and galeries in Madrid, Soria, Málaga, Ponce, Bonn, Mainz, Bad Kissingen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Rome, Paris, London, Frankfurt, Munich, Brussels, San Juan, Miami, Ottawa, Quebec City, Montreal, Bogotá, Caracas, Santiago, New York, Detroit, Chicago, and Santo Domingo

Fernando Ureña Rib is a former President of the Dominican Artist Association, member of AICA, (Association International de Critiques d' Art, Paris) and AIAP (Association International des Artistes Plastiques, Paris).

What the Art Critics Said - About Fernando Ureña Rib’s Art Work:

Fernando Ureña Rib’s work is living, breathing art of the most unusual kind. It is like the beginning of time, with organic shapes in the most beautiful color mosaic imaginable, swimming in a fantastic ecological landscape . It is art to be looked at and live with. It is as if Ureña Rib was handing us a living organism that he has created, and it was put up to us to appreciate its existence. Dorotha Kozinska. Art Critic. Radio Canada. Montreal.

It is a world between dream and nightmare. Feminine forms that seem to flee to a zone where fantasies are set for freedom. The artist shows through precise and fluid drawing his visionary character. Annelie Pohlen. Art Critic. General Anzeiger, Bonn, Germany .211982

Upon examining his work I realized that the images were rather simple in terms of the complexity of the rendering but had a powerful magnetic element. It is the gentleness of the forms that make the observer quietly sigh. For Ureña Rib Art can be viewed as a means of illumination our physical, spiritual and social structures. It is the degree of illumination which determines the impact a work of art has on the viewer. One comes to the awareness that Fernando is a myriad of paradoxes an his artistic endeavors are that of the age old desire to harmonize worlds. Scott Duperon. President Attaché Data Link, Shell Aero Space Centre. Ottawa, Canada.

In his work Fernando Ureña Rib explores the underlying structure of the natural forms and the unity of this relationship to the human body. This exploration is intense. His paintings are at once peaceful and disturbing. They seduce us . Beatrice M. Ingram. Boston, 1984

Fernando Ureña Rib’s series of stroboscopic works eloquently describe movements in space; psychological as well as physical space. The viewer is at once presented with images of overlapping continuum, frozen motion: a staccato progression that has the disquieting effect of a film projector slowing to a breakdown. Steve Kaplan. Art Director Altos De Chavon. New York. 1982

Individual Expositions:

1996 Museo Guayasamín, Qutito, Ecuador. · Café Galería. Santo Domingo. ·1995 Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Mainz, Germany · Studio 410 , ·Montreal, Canada, Shell Aerocentre, Ottawa, Canada·Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominikanische Republik ·1994 Colegio Dominicano de Artistas Plásticos, Santo Domingo ·1994 Bureau Du Tourisme, Montreal, Canadá· 1993Fundación Konrad Adenauer, Mainz, Deutschland · Galerie Taran, Thor Arne Ranghus, Oslo, Norwegen · Galerie Opris, Munchen , Deutschland. ·Casa del Cordón, Santo Domingo, Dominikanische Republik ·1992 Casa de Bastidas, Santo Domingo· Centre Vanier, Chateauguay, Montreal, Canadá· 1991 Casa de Bastidas· Galerie Opris, Muenchen, Deutschland. · Lumbreras Fine Arts, Miami, Florida· 1990 Galerie Der Moderne Kunst ·Belgo House, Montreal Canadá· Maison de France, Santo Domingo ·1989 ·Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo · Domingo1988 · Galería Pluma, Bogotá, Colombia · Deutsche Iberoamerikanische Geselschaft ·Francfort, Alemania · Galerie Taran, Thor Arne Ranghus, Oslo, ·Noruega ·Rathaus GalerieEppan, Bolzano, Italia·Istituto Italo Latinoamericano de Roma· EUR Italia ·1987 Galerie Ove, Montreal, Canadá · Sala Arturo Pellerano Alfau, LISTIN DIARIO, Santo Domingo ·1986 Atelier Circulaire, Old Montreal, Canada ·Museo de las Casas Reales, Santo Domingo·Café Galería, Santo Domingo ·1985 Galería Arawak, Santo Domingo · Galerie Art Export Import Galería Roblor, Montreal· 1984 Centro de Arte Nouveau Galerie für Moderne Kunst, Bad Kissingen, Deutschland. ·1983 Deutsche Bank, Bonn, Alemania 1982 · Museo de las Casas Reales, Santo Domingo, Dominikanische Republik. ·1981Casa de la Cultura de Santiago, República Dominicana ·Altos de Chavón, La Romana, República Dominicana 1980· Galería de Arte Dominicano, Santo Domingo· Galería Bonsai,Santo Domingo, Domikianische Republik ·

Selected Group Shows:

1994 Ferias de Arte de Bruselas.· Chicago, Miami, Caracas ·Arte Dominicano de Hoy, Banco Central, Santo Domingo · Las Flores de Mayo, CODAP, Santo Domingo ·1993 Chicago International Art Fair·Art Miami 93· 1989 Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cuenca, Ecuador · Les Trois Ameriques, Musee du Luxembourg, Paris · Festival Internacional de Arte, Cagnes Sur Mer, Francia ·1988 Arte Dominicano, Museo de Cuba, Miami · 1987 Chase Manhattan Bank, New york · 1986 Contemporary Dominican Art, ·National Library, Ottawa, Canadá· Art From The Dominican Republic, London, England·1985 Festival International de Sculpture sur Neige, Quebec ·1984 Art Expo Montreal, Palais de Congres, Montreal· 1983 Sieben Künstler aus der Dominikanische Republik, Bonn, Rotterdam, Frankfurt·1982 L’art dominicain, UNESCO, Paris· 1981 Artistas representativos de la República Dominicana, Moscu, · Odessa, URSS · 1980 Artistas Dominicanos en Caracas, Venezuela ·1978 Gran Exposición de Arte Iberoamericano, Madrid 1978 Dominican Art. Exposición Itinerante, Estado de Detroit, US