Amaya Salazar

Amaya Salazar


Amaya Salazar (born 1951, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican artist known for her faceless personas that inhabit mystical and magical environments where light and the Antillean flora are present
Amaya Salazar studied at the Academia Artium, Madrid, Spain and at the School of Fine Arts, Boston, U.S.A.

Salazar is mostly inspired by the female form and by mother and child images. She captures those intimate moments where women are escaping the reality of life and entering the warm of the Caribbean light.

Light and flora play an important role in Salazar's work. In her work, the rays of the sun and moon create kaleidoscope of tones throughout the landscape. In the nightscapes the palette turns dark almost black, but there is always an internal light that shines. Her brighter works give us the different tonalities that the sun create as it warms the landscape. The flora is an integral part of Salazar’s work. The banana leaves, the palm trees, the bamboo trunks are part of the environment that surround the characters; in some cases they are the only element of the piece.

Salazar also works in bronze, steel, and marble as well as creates charcoal on paper drawings and water color and Chinese ink on paper.

Her work can be found in important collections worldwide. There are two monographs about the artist’s work and a third one is being produced.

Rigo Peralta

Rigo Peralta



Rigo Peralta is a Dominican artist living in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States.

Mario Rigoberto Peralta was born in San José de las Matas, Dominican Republic. He studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Santiago, Dominican Republic.

He emigrated to New York City in 1989 and studied at the Art Students League of New York. From 2002-2003, he served as the art director of the Casa de la Cultura Dominicana.
Peralta now lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and is a resident artist at the Banana Factory in the South Side of Bethlehem. He paints mainly in oil and is known for his surrealist pieces. His inspiration includes the growing automated nature of mankind, religion, sex, and his nationality. He was recently commissioned by the Sands Casino in Bethlehem to produce a series of paintings depicting both the community and the newly renovated steel mill.

Awards

2010 Lehigh –Art- Alliance 75th Annual Fall Juried Exhibition at Allentown Art Museum Air Products Foundation Award

2010 Arts Ovation award Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts:

2010 Order of Merit citizen, a recognition for Dominicans who had excelled.

2009 The Dominican American Cultural association

2007 Dominican National award, a recognition presented to Dominicans of excellence and pride.


In 2003 he became the first Dominican artist to receive a Presidential invitation to the White House. In 2008 he was presented with the National Dominican Prize by President Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna of the Dominican Republic.

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Born in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic.
1970-1972: 'Wood Carving'. Centro Nacional de Artesania, CENADARTE (Under Direction of sculptor Joaquin Priego), Santo Domingo, dominican Republic.
1970-1972/1974-1978: 'Fine Arts'. National School of Fine Arts. (Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas). Teachers: Rosa Tavarez, Norberto Santana, Vicente Pimentel, Guillo Perez, Leopordo Perez (LEPE), Domingo Liz, Amable Sterling, Rotellini, Elsa Nunez, Angel Hache, Marianela Jimenez,...
1975-1978: 'Fine Arts Education' (Profesorado en Artes Plasticas). Teachers: Norberto Santana, Amable Sterling, Pedro Mir, Rotellini, Cuquito Pena, and others. Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo, UASD, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1979-1980: 'Graphic: Etching, Intaglio, Serigraphy (Silk Screen), Lithography, Collagraphy, and Experimental Drawing. Teachers: Jose Alicea, Antonio Navia, Mirna Baez, and Manuel Fonteboa. Escuela de Artes Plasticas (School of Fine Arts), Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
OTHER STUDIES:
2003-2004: 'Computer Graphic Design' and 'English as Second Language'. Easter Suffolk VOCE, Long Island, New York.
1981: 'Theory and Practice of the Foklore Investigation'. Ditacted by Dr. Ralph S. Boggs and Edna Garrido de Boggs. Museo del Hombre dominicano (Museum of the Dominican Men), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1978: 'General Culture', Instituto Tecnico Vocacional, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1975: 'First and Second Workshops of Hight School Professors Improvement'. (Primero y Segundo Curso de Perfeccionamiento para Profesores de la Educacion Media). Secretaria de Educacion, Bellas Artes y Cultos, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.