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Danilo De los Santos
ceramist and cultural manager; he has formative links with «Landscape,» acrylic/canvas, 101x38 inch., 1989 v «Land-
Gilberto Fernandez Diez, Paul Giudicelli and Eva Kauf- scape,» acrylic/canvas, 100x75 inch., 1989 v «Landscape,»
man. First solo exhibition in 1963, then presenting numer- acrylic/canvas, 60x75 cm., 1989 v «Landscape,» acrylic/can-
ous solo exhibitions, earning awards in national competi- vas, 60x75 cm., 1989 v «Landscape,» acrylic/canvas, 60x75
tions and partnering as a member of Group Projects. He is cm., 1989 v «Untitled,» acrylic/canvas, 75x100 cm., 1989 v
founder of the Triennial Elit-Tile, which places the Domin- «Untitled,» acrylic/canvas, 60x75 cm., 1989 v «Landscape,»
ican Republic on the international map of contemporary acrylic/canvas, 100x37 cm., 1989 v «River Landscape,» acryl-
art ceramics, between the end of the last century and the ic/canvas, 100x75 cm., 1989 v «Washerwomen on the River,»
beginning of the XXI century. Thimo is a ceramicist of re- acrylic/canvas, 75x59 cm., 1989.
nowned trajectory, cultivating it in two-dimensional works
(murals, paintings and tiles) and three-dimensional works Juan A. García Lestrad. (Santo Domingo, 1952).
(architecture, sculpture and functional objects).
Exhibits juvenile solo in 1966. He studied graphic de-
«White Horse,» framed ceramic assemble, 10x10 inch., 1980. sign, connecting to Atlante Group during 1970. Records
more than six solos, distinguishing himself by a figurative
Carolina Cepeda. (Río San Juan, María Trinidad Sán- style of profuse lines defining the issues which he molli-
fies with a narrative of ardent chromatism. He signs his
chez Province, 1952). Educated in the city of Santiago, works with the second surname Lestrad.
studied painting at the School of Fine Arts, and Social
Work at the University Madre y Maestra, which is part of «Landscape with Woman Washing,» oil/canvas, 24x30
Group Sinople, performing locally as a teacher of paint- inch., 1987 v «Scarecrow,» acrylic/canvas, 24x30 inch., 1992.
ing at her personal neighbourhood school. With a pres-
ence in national collectives, recorded 15 solo shows be- Alette Simmons. (Madison, WI 1952). With art educa-
tween 1970-1990. She was guest speaker at the exhibition
Dominican Women and Art Today-Homage to Celeste tion, especially in «Newcomb College of Tulane Univer-
Woss y Gil, held in Santo Domingo, 1995. sity (1971-1975), she is linked to the country by marriage
to a Dominican native. Artist working various forms:
One of the showcases of the painter, entitled «Canto sculpture, installation, painting and video. She holds
a mi Tierra,» brings about several cycles of a recognized nine solos from 1976-1991. Her discourse is evocative
landscaping in their recreations or exhilarating reinven- of contemporary stylistic trends, standing out restrained
tion of reality. The new figuration is explicit in his work colour tones in warm refined configurations.
developed with fresh and bright chromatic range, a work
that is multiplied in the treasures of Banco Popular. «Girl with a Boy Friend,» mixed metal/canvas, 100x75
cm., 1985 v «Family,» oil/canvas, 100x75 cm., 1985 v «Higuey
«Mouth of the Ozama River,» acrylic/canvas, 118x167 Couple,» oil/canvas, 76x121 cm., 1985.
inch., 1979 v «Untitled,» acrylic/canvas, 21x29 inch., 1980
v «Untitled,» oil/canvas, 24x29 inch., 1980 v «Untitled,» NEOHUMANIST FIGURATION
acrylic/canvas, 100x25 cm., 1982 v «Landscape,» acrylic/ In a discursive tradition linked to Jaime Colson, in-
canvas, 55x70 inch., 1984 v «Landscape,» acrylic/canvas,
76x30 cm., 1984 v «Landscape,» acrylic/canvas, 76x30 cm., fluential teacher of generations of artists between 1950-
1985 v «Untitled,» acrylic/canvas, 76x30 cm., 1985 v «To- 1978, its archetypes of mannered and racial subjects,
bacco Ranch,» color screen print 100/120/paper, 76x50 cm., mulattos and blacks, are repeated in neo figurative dis-
1986 v «Landscape,» acrylic/canvas, 100x37 inch., 1988 v courses, as in the case of the painters Baron Arias and
Virgilio Méndez.
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