Photograph of Artist JORGE POSADA
JORGE POSADA
New York, New York - United States



Original Artworks (7)

Jorge Posada; Untitled III, 2010, Original Painting Oil, 46 x 70 inches. Artwork description: 241  oil on canvas, abstract, figurative   ...
Jorge Posada
Original Oil Painting, 2010
46 x 70 inches (116.8 x 177.8 cm)
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Jorge Posada; Rubens Series VI, 2010, Original Painting Oil, 57 x 68 inches. Artwork description: 241  Rubens series, oil on canvas, abstract, figurative  ...
Jorge Posada
Original Oil Painting, 2010
57 x 68 inches (144.8 x 172.7 cm)
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Jorge Posada; Animus Corpus In Motion III , 2009, Original Painting Oil, 48 x 48 inches. Artwork description: 241  Animus Corpus Series, oil on canvas, abstract, figurative ...
Jorge Posada
Original Oil Painting, 2009
48 x 48 inches (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
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Jorge Posada; Exodus Escape V, 2007, Original Painting Oil, 48 x 72 inches. Artwork description: 241  Semi- Human form in motion ...
Jorge Posada
Original Oil Painting, 2007
48 x 72 inches (121.9 x 182.9 cm)
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Jorge Posada; Exodus, Escape VI, 2007, Original Painting Oil, 48 x 72 inches. Artwork description: 241  Composition of a human form in motion  ...
Jorge Posada
Original Oil Painting, 2007
48 x 72 inches (121.9 x 182.9 cm)
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Jorge Posada; Animus Corpus V, 2007, Original Painting Oil, 36 x 60 inches. Artwork description: 241  Semiabstract human figure in red ...
Jorge Posada
Original Oil Painting, 2007
36 x 60 inches (91.4 x 152.4 cm)
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Jorge Posada; Animus Corpus 4, 2007, Original Painting Oil, 36 x 60 inches. Artwork description: 241  Semiabstract composition of a human form in red. ...
Jorge Posada
Original Oil Painting, 2007
36 x 60 inches (91.4 x 152.4 cm)
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Artist Statement

In my intention to be part of a collective memory, my art serves as a vehicle to present my own interpretation of the violent reality I have witnessed.

I use the human form to explore the rituals of violence that are present in our global society. I portray the brutality inflicted on the human being by his own kind. I reflect the impact that has been engraved in my mind when I was confronted in my childhood with the universe of icons that represent the martyrs of the Catholic Church. In my quest to exorcise these images, I use the body as the center of my artwork.

In my former paintings and drawings, I depicted the figure in a more realistic way. Today I use a different visual approach that integrates the human form into a juxtaposition of color, shape, texture and carefully applied transparencies. The tension between gestural body fragments and planes suggests a constant flux of the body in the two-dimensional space. I articulate the formal dynamics of the ephemeral human presence with a blend of realistic and semi-abstract figuration.

I invade the canvas and the paper with brush strokes and lines in spontaneous motions to discover expressive and rhythmic forms as well as pulsating semi-human shapes that suggest bodies, torsos and hearts. It is my intention to create a visual balance where the forms in motion inhabit each other and the surrounding space, as if all are attached by an umbilical cord. In my artwork I incorporate these forms or liberate them, echoing the exodus of the human being. I place the body in a pictorial geography occupied by words and arrows that are a metaphor for the action of going blindly in every direction.

I like to work in series, in a constant dialogue between my artwork and myself, until this conversation ends thus creating the need for a new series. I combine painted panels and paper as photograms in a movie, frames in a comic strip or chapters in a book.
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