LUIS CARLOS VELASQUEZ

New work

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Please Visit my new blog that shows my latest works of art at:

http://www.artbyvelasquez.blogspot.com/

CAREER DAY ATKINSON SCHOOL 2010

to view the rest of the images go to the slide show near the bottom of the blog=)

"Cigar Town" Murals 2009

Cigar Town, Reston Virginia,Town Center

My E-mail is : Luis_carlos_v@hotmail.com

Artist Reviews 2009

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2009 CAREER DAY AT CAROLINE G. ATKINSON SCHOOL
(SEE FULL SLIDE SHOW AT THE BOTTOM)

TO VIEW MORE ART WORK BY LUIS CARLOS VELASQUEZ

Friday April 17th to the 23rd, 2009
International Immigrants Foundation Presents:
7 W. 44th st. New York, N.Y. 10036

April 1st. 2009 St. Martin de Porres Cultural Arts Event
Molloy College-

Art Lecture and Exhibit at Nassau Community College
March 26, 2009

Artist Review March 2009 by Carol Fischer-Rosenthal

Reviews

I absolutely love the way Luis surrounds his subject whether animal or human with the most amazing patterns that have wonderful 3-demensional effects and create a very moving environment for his subject matter. The woman's faces are extraordinary.....they are people you are curious about and want to know and understand their story. They have inner depth to them......not just a pretty face,but a real living, breathing, thinking, person who speaks to you.....their lives exposed somehow by the bold reality of the way they are painted. The abstract patterns that form their world furthur tell a story that we can puzzle over and wonder about forever. The animals are magnificently executed, and they have inner depth too,and you feel their hearts beating. You feel the lions and cheetah's are thinking about the world, their condition, or some higher resolve. They are beyond the ordinary animal roaming the jungle or plains....they seem to possess a higher power that is almost human-like.

-Carol Fischer-Rosenthal

Ico Gallery Artist Review Jan. 2009
by Andrew Beckerman

Reviews

We can begin to look at Luis Velasquez’ art from two vantage points that are perhaps incommensurable, or at least incommensurable from a single rigid outlook, and this is perhaps what is interesting about his artworks. On one hand, there are the figurative components to his paintings which – with flourishes here and there, say the expressionistic colors of “Sleepless Dream” or the cutout quality of the woman in “Vigil in Unity” – very much come out of a long tradition, and thus have ties that go back hundreds of years. The figurative elements of his works, the women and the cats, establish themes that tentacle their way backwards through romanticism and primitivism.
At the same time, and within each artwork, there is a facet of abstractness that incongruously plays off of the figurative forms though. It is a difficult proposition to attempt to force these two aspects into unity with each other, though they certainly are in communion. The figurative elements anchor Velasquez’ work in a way that allows the free-form or essentially non-form elements to wind their way around vine like throughout the paintings. Whether this is a conscious ecological element that in the end reinforces the naturalness of the subjects or whether they indeed stand apart from that nature is perhaps undecidable.

-Andrew Beckerman

Reviews

Tremendous strength, power, and beautiful gradations of warm colors. I love the bull image coming out of this fabulously strong enviroment of bold shapes with wonderful color. I feel the strength of the bull, yet his vulnerability as well,and feel he is doomed despite his power and ferocity, and that makes me sad. Luis really knows his colors, and his shading is superb. I wish that killing the bull wouldn't be a part of Spanish culture, but at the same time, I know that the bull represents, at least in the bull fighting arena, a challenge to the manhood of the bullfighter. In Luis's painting, the bull is emerging from this almost architectural type place and he is coming at us with fierce determination. I absolutely love the warm golden colors. It does bring back memories of me in Mexico when I went running out of the bullfight because I couldn't bare to see the bull being tortured. Luis's painting luckily does not depict that, but shows the bull in all his furociousness despite his vulnerabilities. It is a very sensitive painting, with colors that show passion and love

-Carol Fischer-Rosenthal

Artist Reception March 5th 2009 at Bellmore Memorial Library

(please view video at the bottom of the page)

Ico Gallery Presents: "Metamorphosis" January 6th-30th Opening Reception: January 9th @ 8:00 pm Featured Artists: Azlan Adam Emin Guliyev Robert Louie Toshiko Nishikawa Sharon Park John Ruby Luis Velasquez

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for all your support.

Artist Reception and Exhibits 2008

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VILLAGE OF FREEPORT CELEBRATES "HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH"
Tuesday October 7, 2008

It is with great joy that I announce my Art show Saturday the 14th of June where I will be displaying and selling Giclee reproductions and originals made specificly for the show.

I am very fortunate to have LRS Gallery The Premier Art Gallery of Long Island host this very exciting event. I would like to give a very special thank you to Mrs. Barto for believing in me, also the Long Beach Art League, Ikarus gallery Cultural Program, Linda and Ron for making it all possible and most of all my Mom for showing me the light and enabling me to reach my dreams. Love you Mom!

The reception starts at 2pm and ends at 8pm The Gallery is located 7A North Park Avenue Rockville Centre, New York 11570 There will be Free Raffles, Wine and cheese. Additional parking in the rear of building.

LIVER WALK MAY 18TH 2008

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AMERICAN LIVER FOUNDATION GREATER NEW YORK CHAPTER

IT WAS REALLY GREAT BEING ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN SUCH AN IMPORTANT CAUSE. LIVER DISEASE AFFECTS MORE THAN 30 MILLION AMERICANS. MY BEST WISHES AND PRAYERS GO OUT TO THE SANDOVAL FAMILY AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF MELBA SANDOVAL.

TO REGISTER OR TO MAKE A TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION, GO TO:http://walkgny.goliver.org or call 212 943 1059

2008 CAREER DAY CAROLINE G. ATKINSON SCHOOL

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SO MANY MEMORIES...., IT WAS WONDERFUL RETURNING TO MY OLD SCHOOL AND HAVING THE CHANCE TO SHOW MY ART WORK TO OUR YOUNG FUTURE. I WISH YOU ALL THE VERY BEST IN THE CAREER YOU CHOOSE TO FOLLOW. ALWAYS STRIVE TO BE THE BEST AT WHAT YOU DO. PLEASE VIEW THE SLIDE SHOW AT THE BOTTOM.

ARTSCENE

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PUBLISHED BY THE LONG ISLAND ART COUNCIL AT FREEPORT APRIL 1, 2008 - MAY 31, 2008

NEW YORK CITY CELEBRATES FIFTH ANNUAL IMMIGRANT HERITAGE WEEK

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MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG, MAYOR
GUILLERMO LINARES,COMMISSIONER, MAYOR'S OFFICE OF IMMIGRANT AFFAIRS

APRIL 14-20 2008 It was a wonderful closing night for the celebration of Immigrant Heritage Week many were in attendance and we had a great time. The Art exhibit was a smash and everyone had possitive feedback. Can't wait till next year!

" CAREER DAY " 2008 FOR JOHN W. DODD MIDDLE SCHOOL

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"GOALS TO ACHIEVE DREAMS TO PURSUE"

I'm very glad to have participated as guest speaker in this years career day. We had a wonderful time interacting with the students which had some very interesting questions and comments. These were some of the thank you letters from the 7th grade Art class which were all very beautiful!

2008 St. Martin de Porres Cutural Arts Event

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This years event April 2, 2008 went extremely well and we had alot of fun. Last year I attended the event with Author- Luz Velasquez as an Illustrator of her book of poems " Remembranzas". A book of 101 poems in spanish wonderfully illustrated by Leo Velasquez, Armando Garcia and Alberto Garcia. This year I attended as a Visual Artist Along side with various accomplished artists. The show was a great hit and I had a wonderfull time.

Spring Exhibit

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"INNER SPACES" Judged and critiqued by MARCIA WIDENOR

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"TRANSPARENT"

Award winning piece*

32"x 48" mixed media 2007

In the recent contest promoted by the " LONG BEACH ART LEAGUE" titled "Inner Spaces"

Judged and Critiqued by MARCIA WIDENOR

begining March 1 through March 29. Long Beach Library

Located 111 West Park Avenue,Long Beach,NY 11561.

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“ REBIRTH OF CONSCIOUSNESS “

Luis Carlos Velásquez is a Long Island native with Colombian
roots, who grew up in Freeport, Long Island, and graduated from
Freeport High School. He attended Art courses at Nassau Com-
munity College, and studied art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn N.Y.
He later enlisted in the United States Air Force and was honorably discharged in 2006. He has been drawing and painting since early childhood, but it was not only until 2007 that he started to paint on canvas. He received a certificate of recognition from the Town of Hempstead, New York for his collective exhibition in celebration of “Hispanic Heritage Month” in 2007. In a collective exhibit, “Opening Doors to the Americas” held at the Brentwood Public Library in December 2007, he received another certificate of recognition for his work. In 2006 illustrated “Remembranzas” a book of poems." New York book Expo 2007 ". He is an active member of “Ikarus Gallery Cultural Program of Long Island”, a
member of the “Long Beach Art League,” and he has been involved
in many group exhibits in community events in New York.
“Rebirth on Consciousness,” is a collection of paintings that are
deeply moving and visually exciting. His colorful work in mixed
media brings to life powerful images of exotic animals, and exuberant
female forms. The compositions are strong and portray a feeling of
reality, and the abstract.
His work reflects both appreciation and love for nature and the
environment.