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Arnaldo Roche BIOGRAPHY
1955 Santurce, Puerto Rico - 2018. Known for: Modernist figure-to abstraction, still life, portrait.
The following was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. Arnaldo Roche-Rabell was born in Puerto Rico in 1955. He began as an architecture... Read full biography
The following was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. Arnaldo Roche-Rabell was born in Puerto Rico in 1955. He began as an architecture student at the University of Puerto Rico but later decided to switch to painting. He earned both... Read full biography
The following was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. Arnaldo Roche-Rabell was born in Puerto Rico in 1955. He began as an architecture student at the University of Puerto Rico but later decided to switch to painting. He earned both Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees at the Art Institute of Chicago. While there he adopted the Neo-Expressionism then in vogue. His is an intense personal approach; he gets as close... Read full biography
The following was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. Arnaldo Roche-Rabell was born in Puerto Rico in 1955. He began as an architecture student at the University of Puerto Rico but later decided to switch to painting. He earned both Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees at the Art Institute of Chicago. While there he adopted the Neo-Expressionism then in vogue. His is an intense personal approach; he gets as close as he can to his subjects. He covers their bodies with canvas or paper and traces the contours with his hands. He works by first applying thick layers of paint directly to the canvas and then placing the canvas on the model, who frequently is his... Read full biography
The following was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. Arnaldo Roche-Rabell was born in Puerto Rico in 1955. He began as an architecture student at the University of Puerto Rico but later decided to switch to painting. He earned both Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees at the Art Institute of Chicago. While there he adopted the Neo-Expressionism then in vogue. His is an intense personal approach; he gets as close as he can to his subjects. He covers their bodies with canvas or paper and traces the contours with his hands. He works by first applying thick layers of paint directly to the canvas and then placing the canvas on the model, who frequently is his mother. He traces his use of frottage, the technique of rubbing, to the public school for the arts he attended in... Read full biography
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Arnaldo Roche Rabell, Arnaldo Roche-Rabell
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The following was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:
Arnaldo Roche-Rabell was born in Puerto Rico in 1955. He began as an architecture student at the University of Puerto Rico but later decided to switch to painting. He earned both Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees at the Art Institute of Chicago. While there he adopted the Neo-Expressionism then in vogue. His is an intense personal approach; he gets as close as he can to his subjects. He covers their bodies with canvas or paper and traces the contours with his hands. He works by first applying thick layers of paint directly to the canvas and then placing the canvas on the model, who frequently is his mother. He traces his use of frottage, the technique of rubbing, to the public school for the arts he attended in his native town of Santurce in Puerto Rico.
When Roche-Rabell was a child, his brother, a brilliant engineer, accidentally shot and killed their sister, then gradually went mad and finally died. He makes no mention of this tragedy.
Sources include:
Encid Routte-Gomez in ARTnews, Summer 1993
Garrett Holg in ARTnews, April 1990Biography from the Archives of askART
Roche-Rabell was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. He studied at the School of Architecture at the Universidad de Puerto Rico. In 1978, he moved to Chicago where he attended the Art Institute. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited extensively across the United States and Latin America. He participated in the Hispanic Art in the United States exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 1987, the 1987 Sao Paulo Biennial, and the Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century in New York in 1993.
His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C., among other institutions.
Roche-Rabell has been the recipient of many awards, including the James Nelson Raymon Traveling Fellowship of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1982.
Source:
Sotheby's.comBiography from the Archives of askART
Arnaldo Roche-Rabell earned his Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts at the Chicago Art Institute. He has had a celebrated career and his work has been exhibited in Spain, Central, South and North America. Force, energy, vigor and drama are the attributes of his work. Its figures are achieved through the technique of "frottage".
His themes address the political and social situation of Puerto Rico.
Source:
museoarteponce.org