KIKI VALDES

The Valdeziacs opening April 27th

Posted 2013-04-20 14:28:32 | Views: 7,014

Kiki Valdes is an artist who likes to hurt a canvas before making love to it. In his attention-grabbing, expressionistic paintings, Valdes explores the tension between the figurative and abstract. He traffics in the weird and whimsical, creating absurdist narratives using cartoon masks and oddly bulging faces that lure viewers into a landscape that seems strangely familiar. Typically Valdes paints his surfaces with bold, colorful backgrounds, then cuts shapes from canvas he later applies to his paintings to create layered and textured collages. He culls inspiration from pop cultural neurosis, combining childhood reveries, quantum physics, American secret societies, string theory, and loopy Disney and Nickelodeon characters to create images that both provoke delight and anxiety. Saturday from 7 to 10 p.m., the inventive talent, who is repped by the Michael Margulies Artist Agency, is opening "The Valdeziacs" at 101 Exhibit (101 NE 40th St., Miami), his new suite of works in which the funny battles constantly with the fantastical.

By Carlos Suarez de Jesus

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KIKI VALDES - The Rabbit Hole (Oil on canvas) 2013

KIKI VALDES
The Valdeziacs - Solo Exhibition Opening Reception: Saturday April 27th 2013

7pm - 10pm - 101 Exhibit - 101 NE 40th Street. Miami, FL 33137

Kiki Valdes - The Valdeziacs

Posted 2013-03-25 10:04:12 | Views: 7,537

Opening Reception:
Saturday April 27th 2013
7pm - 10pm

101 Exhibit
101 NE 40th Street. Miami, FL 33137
MarguliesAgency.com

K I K I V A L D E S

T h e V a l d e z i a c s

Still Life (Toon) #1 - Oil on canvas (2012)

305.972.8962

April 27 - May 10

FUTURESPECTIVE - February 14th

Posted 2013-01-26 18:35:01 | Views: 9,998

FUTURESPECTIVE

OPENING: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14th 2013

GEORGE SANCHEZ-CALDERON,CHRISTOPHER CARTER, JOHNNY ROBLES, KIKI VALDES,

JEL MARTINEZ, DAVID MARSH, JEANPAUL MALLOZZI,

RUBEN URIERA AND MORE ANNOUNCED SOON.

CURATOR: KIKI VALDES

ARTE CITY BUILDING

2155 Washington Ct Miami Beach, FL 33139

(Behind Bass Museum) 8:00pm - 11:00pm

Rozenblum Foundation

More Info: MarguliesAgency.com

[email protected]

305.972.8962

The Buried Pistol

Posted 2013-01-21 13:43:39 | Views: 9,617

It was Cuba early 1960's and the Castro regime started to confiscate guns away from it's citizens. A 40 something year old father of 4 knew they were coming for his gun...in an act of protest he buried his gun on his property. When they came to take it from him...he denied that he owned one. It is still buried to this day in a brush of grass somewhere by Placetas, Cuba. I would love to get my hands on my grandfathers gun...bring it to the USA and see these parasites try to take it from me.

Domingo at 18 (1944)

DON'T LET HISTORY

REPEAT

ITSELF