Paintings

“When I was growing up, the presence of figurative art and sculpture was always present. That was the dominant language of art all over Latin America and Spain, with the exception of a few artists like Tapiez and Millares, who did the crossover to abstraction. Most art galleries showed figurative art, making it difficult to escape to a language of abstraction and minimalism. In the 1970s, when I went to New York to study, I started getting familiar with abstraction and the great development of the use of freehand languages. It took me around 10 years to be comfortable using a very personal palette and leaving figuration to enter into an expression of lyric abstraction.” -RF