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Self-taught Haitian artist Jean-Adrien Seide was born in Cayes on November 18, 1956. He moved to Venezuela when his father passed away. He paints highly structured landscapes, with fields spreading out toward a distant horizon. Jean Seide is considered a master landscape artist whose works almost approach hyper realism Jean Adrien Seide's themes derive from the River of Artibonite, the mountains of Jacmel, and the cascades from the famous Saut Mathurin or Peligre in Haiti. At first glance, his paintings look representational, but a more detailed examination leads to a fascination, and the fantastic element predominates over the immediate reality.
His art has been shown in several countries, including the United States, Venezuela, Spain, Salvador, Canada, Haiti, and France. Seide is well-known among art collectors all around the globe, who like his simple landscapes. The Musée de Vence in France and the Haitian Heritage Museum in Miami have his works in permanent collections.
Jean Fontaine was born on July 15, 1970 in the Southwestern city of Jeremie on the island of Haiti.
At the age of 20, he moved to Port-Au-Prince to study painting. Later he went to the Dominican Republic School of Fine Arts for a period of 5 years. He is considered a " Naïf " artist who learned his craft by serving apprenticeships in various ateliers. He branched out on his own shortly thereafter and has perfected his particular style depicting the nostalgia of lost origins of Africa through his spectacular jungles. Recently he has ventured into an Abstract, Tropical Cubism style of painting reflected in his maritime themes.
He has been on continuous exhibition at Bayshore Design Center Inc . He lives in New York, New York.
Joel Metellus was born on October 31, 1970 In Port-au-Prince. From 1975 to 1984, he attended Leysius Felicite Salomon Jeune elementary school where he received his elementary school diploma.
From 1985 to 1987, he attended Lycee Firmin (Junior high schoo). Later on, he was transferred to Lycee Jean Jacques Dessalines for his senior years.
Very early, Metellus showed talent for art and a passion for painting for which he decided to dedicate his time.
He went to L’atelier de peinture de Raymond Moise In Port-au-Prince. There he developed his knowledge in calligraphy. His paintings were of naive style celebrating the Haitian peasant. Lately he has experimented with realism , fantasy, Impressionism, and now has been moving towards abstract and expressionist abstraction . He is reaching trying to capture the beauty that is ever present in his surroundings and distorting it to make it even more beautiful.
Roody Saincila was born on February 15, 1987 in Petit Goâve, Haiti. He is a self-taught artist who uses his work to raise awareness on important issues and to inspire hope and resilience in his community. Through his paintings, he encourages young people, especially women, to remain strong and hopeful.
Since his childhood, Saincila was passionate about art. He found inspiration in the bedtime stories his grandfather used to tell him.
Roody imagined paintings corresponding to each scene of these tales.
In 2005-2006, Roody attended art training at the Ateliers Mario ARISTHENE in Petit-Goâve. There, he acquired essential painting skills, such as color mixing, elements of perspective, light and shadow, etc. He also learned papier-mâché techniques.
In 2021, he joined the Haiti Art Center, where Frantz Zephirin taught him the arts.
Roody Saincila’s art is not just a collection of paintings; it is a window into his soul. Each stroke manifests his emotions: joy, intensity, dynamism, audacity.
The energy that permeates his art is a testament to his deep desire for exploration, renewal and his constant drive to surpass his artistic limits. His art demands that the audience connects with his emotional journey.
Saincila’s paintings use vibrant and intense colors to grab the viewer’s attention and draw them into his message. His art has been exhibited in several galleries abroad, including Galerie Emeraude Michel in Canada and the Nassau County Museum of Arts in New York.
Sincilla is experimenting with realism, and abstract expressionism incorperating elements of aboriginal art as evidenced by his use of different size dots . He says that his work is done in the middle of the night when images come to him in his dreams
Miguel Ángel Ulloa , was born in Puerta Plata , Dominican Republic, in 1964. He was influenced by his famous brother Alberto Ulloa with whom he trained and worked. In 1988 he was honored with his first individual exposition in the Ambassador Hotel in the DR. In the following year he exposed in La Discoteca de Las Vegas. He held exhibitions in Panama in 1992, after which he was featured in La Grand Féria del Arte of San Juan, Puerto Rico. His work has been exposed in La Galeria Toledo of Venezuela. In 2003, he was featured in Galleria Nader in the DR; in 2004 at Galleria Nietzche in Madrid with the artist Angel Villalona. He also participated in exhibitions in South Korea and Paris. He comes from a family of seven brothers, all of whom are artists. His atelier where he creates his unique mixed media pieces is celebrated throughout the Dominican Republic.
Bernape was born on the 5th of December 1959 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
He studied architecture at the “Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo”. He abandoned the career of architecture for painting which was always his passion. He studied the plastic arts at the “National School of Fine Arts of Santo Domingo”. He also taught painting and art at the University intermittently for the last 25 years. His work has been influenced by the "Impressionist" school as well as the "Fauvism” movement. He achieved a high level of skill by using the vibrant and harmonious colors so evident in his canvases. Bernape participated in national and international exhibitions. His work has been exhibited in the United States, Spain, France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, garnering critical acclaim. The critics in his country consider him the best "colorist" as is evidenced in the way he applies harmonious colors his mastery of chromatic colors. His intellectual interests ranged from Poetry, Religion, Philosophy and History.
He was a devoted family man. Despite all of these accomplishments, he remained a humble man dedicated to the pursuit of his art. In his own words as an artist, he states that “My motivation is in humanism and through my canvases, I wish to transmit a message of Peace , Harmony, Unity, and Equality”. Bernape passed away on November 4 th. 2021.
He said that his theme and inspiration always came from women. He stated that he painted them in honor of the native Tainos who are nearly extinct. “I try to revive them as if they were still here and all around us.” He said.
Melchor Terrero, is a renowned artist from the Dominican Republic whose works hang in the National Museum of Art of his country.
He started his studies with the Spanish painter Rafael Blanco, in 1965 while still an adolescent.
He inscribed at the National School of Fine Arts until 1972. He also apprenticed with Antonio Martorell in Puerto Rico. He has participated in over 110 national and international exhibitions.
His work is to be found in collections throughout Europe, the United States, Central and South America. He has attained a reputation for painting plump people in whimsical situations. His work has a certain charm and appeal that is endearing. He developed his “Botero style” paintings as a result of being married to a full figured female model.
Artist Jack Barry was born and raised in a blue collar factory neighborhood on the Hudson River in Yonkers N.Y. Growing up in the greater metropolitan area exposed me to an inexhaustible supply of stimuli in art, architecture and world cultures.
His first exposure to Fine Art was the masterpieces of the Hudson River School Painters and the contemporary art movement in New York City of the 1940’s and 1950’s. inspiring him as a youth to sketch and paint. Young adulthood placed him in the U.S. Navy serving in the Vietnam Theater. On returning home he entered the trade of a High Voltage Lineman, which was to last for more than a decade.
Still not satisfied with his lot in life, He left the Union 9 to 5 world and opened a painting business on Long Island and eventually in the Palm Beaches.His world then became one of restoration of Historic Buildings and Faux Finishing effects, which he seemed to have a gift for.
Working in the mediums of paint and plaster jack honed his skills in the techniques of the craft. This soon led to the natural progress of expressing himself in Frescoes and oil on canvas.
Jack’s art since that time has been and still is an expression of memory. Music was a key factor in his creative process. The rhythms triggered images from recesses deep in the mind that got transformed on the canvas in feeling and style.
It is from this form of the ever changing inspiration of sound that jack barry the buffet of palates and styles that he worked in today. The bi-product for him was the great freedom to explore them all!
Eugene Ulloa Colon was born February 23, 1963 in Puerto Plata- Dominican Republic. From a very young age he started painting with his brothers Miguel and Alberto Ulloa who died in October 2011. Maestro Alberto Ulloa is quite famous.
Later on Eugene moved to Caracas Venezuela where he worked with Jesus Paez from whom he learned a lot. Eugene mastered mixed media like his brothers Alberto and Miguel.
His work can be found in France, Italy, Spain, the United States, Porto Rico and Chile.