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Eugenio Espinosa
Eugenio Espinosa
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Eugenio Espinosa: Artist Bio & Statement
Eugenio Espinosa was born in Habana, Cuba, and emigrated to the U.S. at age 11, settling in Paterson, NJ. He majored in Zoology at Drew University, thereafter studied at the School of Visual Arts and then Rutgers University (MFA, 1981). He currently resides in Jersey City.
Mr. Espinosa has exhibited his work throughout the New York metropolitan region, including one-person exhibitions in Choplet Gallery, Williamsburg, NY; Weir Farm, Branchville, CT; PS 122 in New York City; New Jersey City University; Drew University, Madison; Bloomfield College; and Glassboro State College.
His work has been included in group exhibitions at Drawing Rooms, Jersey City; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton; Morris Museum, Morristown; Aljira, Newark; Hopper House, Nyack; and Cuba Art New York, New York City.
He has received awards from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Cintas Foundation, Kellogg Foundation and has been awarded residencies including Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center, Weir Farm, and others.
His work is in private collections as well as in the collections of Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Rutgers University Permanent Collection, Voorhees-Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick; and Nelson Hall Collection, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
These panoramic paintings , done from 2003-’05, reflect my return trip to Cuba in 1999. Like most of my work, they bring together people in history and family whom I learned from, my ancestors and mentors: a vignette of Antonio Maceo’s death, a portrait of Ina, a bust of Jose Marti, etc.
In Fe these images are presented like shoots from a tree, a kind of evolutionary connector radiating from a boy kneeling in faith.
In Tierra Prometida, the two boys look out stiffly at a landscape that promises beauty and grief (Giottos’s keening angels are flying above)
Mr. Espinosa has exhibited his work throughout the New York metropolitan region, including one-person exhibitions in Choplet Gallery, Williamsburg, NY; Weir Farm, Branchville, CT; PS 122 in New York City; New Jersey City University; Drew University, Madison; Bloomfield College; and Glassboro State College.
His work has been included in group exhibitions at Drawing Rooms, Jersey City; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton; Morris Museum, Morristown; Aljira, Newark; Hopper House, Nyack; and Cuba Art New York, New York City.
He has received awards from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Cintas Foundation, Kellogg Foundation and has been awarded residencies including Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center, Weir Farm, and others.
His work is in private collections as well as in the collections of Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Rutgers University Permanent Collection, Voorhees-Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick; and Nelson Hall Collection, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
These panoramic paintings , done from 2003-’05, reflect my return trip to Cuba in 1999. Like most of my work, they bring together people in history and family whom I learned from, my ancestors and mentors: a vignette of Antonio Maceo’s death, a portrait of Ina, a bust of Jose Marti, etc.
In Fe these images are presented like shoots from a tree, a kind of evolutionary connector radiating from a boy kneeling in faith.
In Tierra Prometida, the two boys look out stiffly at a landscape that promises beauty and grief (Giottos’s keening angels are flying above)
