Miguel Trelles
Bio
Miguel Trelles is a Puerto Rican visual artist who works in the Lower East Side of Manhattan
An adjunct professor at Baruch College, Trelles has taught Studio Art at Hunter College and Brown University as well as Art History at Fairley Dickinson University and in several cities throughout China.
The work of Miguel Trelles has been exhibited in Rio de Janeiro, Lima, San Juan, Santo Domingo, Havana, Tegucigalpa, Buenos Aires, Paris, and Chengdu. Trelles’ paintings are part of the permanent collections of El Museo del Barrio and Deutsche Bank in New York, the Fundacion Gabarron in Valladolid and in El Museo de Arte de Ponce and the Institue of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan.
Statement
Classic Chinese landscape paintings have guided me in formulating an apocryphal “Caribbean of the mind”. Even though the compositions and brush idiom in these paintings reference Chinese art history, the oil painting medium in itself is an acknowledgment of the European paradigm. Still, I seek to update the medium through a North American hard edge/color field approach transformed by my Caribbean/Nuyorican/Latin American pop sensibility, frequently expressed through saturated colors.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
