Mapugart

He was born in Caracas, Venezuela on August 20, 1970. From his early childhood he showed great inclination for art, especially for drawing and painting. In 1983 he wins the 2nd. Prize in the National Contest "Bolivar Conservacionista" and is invited to participate in exhibitions in India and Japan. Determined to study Plastic Arts deviates his vocation towards Architecture and graduated in 1995 as an Architect. In 2000 he emigrated to the United States where he started working as a Graphic Designer and today he works as Art Director. At the end of 2014 he met the Peruvian plastic artist Juan Ramiro Torres who invited him to participate in several exhibitions in Union City. As of 2015, he is part of the Collective of Plastic Artists of New Jersey, where he currently lives. He has participated in several exhibitions at the Union City Art Museum, the Queens Museum, The Shillman Gallery Ironbound (Newark, NJ), Bergen Community College (Hackensack, NJ.), Clifton Public Library, United Nations, Rene Soto Gallery in Connecticut, as well as the Public Library of Newark and the Newark Museum. In 2017 he won the second prize at the "Portugal Day" exhibition in the city of Newark, NJ. "My work is well influenced by one of my passions, the architecture, with its geometric constructionism and abstraction of space, as well as the Cubism movement and surrealism, in conjunction with black backgrounds, play of shadows and vibrant colors, I look create a way to merge my two passions, design and architecture".