#joseluisvargas

[lowellryanprojects]

José Luis Vargas Medium 2020 Oil and enamel on circus banner 111 1/4h x 85 1/2w inches . . . #joseluisvargas #peurtorico #art #contemporaryart #painting #artist #artwork #circusbanner #artistsoninstagram #contemporarypainting #artgallery #artoftheday #instaart #artcollector #fineart #abstraction #arte #kunst #originalart #gallery #contemporaryart #lowellryanprojects (at Lowell Ryan Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLQVoT3n6Nz/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lowellryanprojects]

“The otherwordliness that permeates my work is an element I rescue from a magical world that has been stolen from us. The way I imagine and organize the entities, creatures, ritualistic figures, UFOs, divinities and ancestors allows for them to have a symbolic exchange where they recognize each other’s potentialities. It is to give them an internal world, and a chance to change the rules of a world collapsing continuously.” -Jose Luis Vargas . . . . #joseluisvargas #lowellryanprojects #spirtual #ufo #puertoricanartist #symbolic #language #mysticism #ancestors #magical (at Puerto Rico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIzhKEPH1_E/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lowellryanprojects]

#joseluisvargas #puertoricanartist #haitianpainting #montage #mysticism #text #appropriation #lowellryanprojects (at Lowell Ryan Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/CINB6BqHlEn/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lowellryanprojects]

Who is the Saint of Santurce? El Santo de Santurce is a kind of alter ego that, actually, is not that different from who I am. Inspired by the very famous Mexican wrestling legend, El Santo, I started wearing the mask with a silver cape in the mid 2000 ́s and began a series of performances and apparitions. The first one was to support my mentor, Carmelo Sobrino, in an activist action he created to protect an area of a park in San Juan where many trees where going to be cut. Afterward, I started to walk around with the mask on me in the streets of Santurce, a very important district of Puerto Rico, and I baptized myself as El Santo de Santurce. Eventually, and after doing other series of performances with some colleagues and doing some films, I decided to create sculptures with the mask, and integrating it in dummies that were later on in the shopping cart. Read @joseluisvargas1603 full interview in his viewing room - link in bio. Image: Jose Luís Vargas (in collaboration with Ariel Annexy) Este es mi mundo., 2020 . . . . #joseluisvargas #lowellryanprojects #lagallery #puertorico #mysticism #voodoo #desert #shoppingcart #symbols #myth #fiction #circus #symbolism #legacy #dessert #nomadism #history #spiritual #shamanism #sideshow #supernatural #aliens #spaceship #wrestlingmask (at Lowell Ryan Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFn123mHc43/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lowellryanprojects]

Lost, is perhaps, as universal a feeling as love nowadays––so many people have been physically, geographically, economically, temporally, or existentially disoriented. How do we find our way when we cannot retrace our steps? In Este es mi mundo. ¡Entra!, we are presented with a first step: an invitation to embrace the unknown and enter into the unfamiliar, which is in fact the only place where true discovery can occur. José Luis Vargas Este es mi mundo. ¡Entra! September 12 - October 31, 2020 . . . . #joseluisvargas #lowellryanprojects #mysticism #voodoo #puertorico #shoppingcart #symbols #myth #fiction #symbolism #legacy #dessert #nomadic #history #spiritual #shamanism #sideshow #supernatural #wrestlingmask @joseluisvargas1603 (at Lowell Ryan Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFEEDhLH3bS/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lowellryanprojects]

Opening Today!! - Este es mi mundo. ¡Entra! (This is My World. Come in!), a solo-exhibition by the Puerto Rican artist José Luis Vargas (b. 1965, Puerto Rico). The show will feature nine of his large-scale free hanging, hand-painted circus banners (painted over in mixed media) as well as two of his shopping cart assemblages. Centering his practice on found objects, Vargas plays off of the physicality, legacy, and symbolism of artifacts to create what the artist himself calls a “constellation for myth-making." With these materials he has constructed a familiar yet strange realm; his work manifests the kind of part historical, part fictive universe for which only the imagination can play host. Opening drop by hours (no appointment needed) Saturday, September 12th - 11:00am to 6:00pm 😷 . . . . . #joseluisvargas #lowellryanprojects #puertorico #mysticism #voodoo #shoppingcart #symbols #myth #fiction #symbolism #legacy #dessert #nomadism #history #spiritual #shamanism #sideshow #supernatural #wrestlingmask @joseluisvargas1603 (at Lowell Ryan Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFBEW2un8kF/?utm_medium=tumblr

[alexanderfabian]

El pasado jueves tuve la oportunidad de asistir al artista José Luis Vargas con la sección de collage como parte de su proyecto socio cultural, "Museo de Historia Sobrenatural" en las Parcelas Suárez de Loíza. Estoy muy contento con el resultado del taller y la dinámica brindada durante ese espacio. Gracias a ETAC (@estaciontropical) por la invitación a ser partícipe de esto y por fomentar el desarrollo de proyectos comunitarios en diversas partes de la isla. 🌴📚✂️ #joseluisvargas #estaciontropical #taller #collage #art #arte #contemporaryart #artecontemporaneo #museodehistoriasobrenatural #loiza #puertorico

[abdielsegarra]

Gracias por permitirnos entrar en tu espacio. #joseluisvargas#santurce#caribe#puertorico#garadiablos (en Calle Cerra , Santurce)