New Architectural Drawings Received From Hugo Crosthwaite

The gallery is the fortunate recipient of two new architectural drawings on wooden panels by Hugo Crosthwaite, the amazing artist from Mexico whose 8-by-36-foot drawing was featured here in his premiere major U.S. exhibition last year. The 2-by-4-foot drawings–one horizontal, the other vertical–feature typical buildings from the typical neighborhoods of Tijuana, the artist’s home town. Like all of Crosthwaite’s work, these are executed in pencil and charcoal, which captures the neighborhood’s gritty ambiance perfectly. Drawing is a slow process, and many of Crosthwaite’s work are earmarked for museum collections. Available works of this size have been rare.

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Melquiades Rosario Sastre: ‘A Sculptor of Ideas’

In his article in “Arte al Dí­a” online, critic Ricardo Pau Llosa calls Melquiades “not only Puerto Rico’s most important contemporary sculptor (but also) one of the finest contemporary artists anywhere.” Paul-Llosa goes on to note that Melqui­ades has not simply rejected the current theoretical underpinnings of most contemporary art, but “is a thinking man who bases his creativity on reflection and not simply on enacting the dicta of this or that current trend. He is a sculptor of ideas, not an illustrator of passing notions.”

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