Choosing painting as his medium the work of Charlie Quezada has focused in approaching everyday life as an essential subject matter for the understanding of the creative process. From this exploration traditional genres such as interior, still life and landscape, are refreshed through a simplified representation. The mid- and large-sized paintings refer to a figurative language, which stems from the need of creating shapes from reality, but at the same time containing traces of abstraction in a search for subdued tension. The result are subjective places where everyday objects emerge while illustrating the artist’s own circumstance within his context.
Education
2010 – 2012 Parsons The New School, New York – BFA in Fine Arts.
2008 – 2010 Altos De Chavón The School of Design, Dominican Republic – Associated Degree in Illustration and Fine Arts.
Solo Shows
2018
What Exists Outdoors Belongs Indoors, Lucy García Gallery, Santo Domingo Dominican Republic.
Selected Exhibitions
2018 Weather Lines Video and Tape. Lucy García Gallery Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2016
Intro at Lucy García Gallery. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2015
28th Biennial of Visual Arts at the Museum of Modern Art. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Pájaro at Casa Quien, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Cosecha at La Alpargatería, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2014
INITIUM at Santiago De Los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.
Fase at La Alpargatería, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana.
2013
27th Biennial of Visual Arts at the Museum of Modern Art. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
The Garden Of Art and Space Travel at Brooklyn, New York.
Collective Unconscious And Further Destinations at Manhattan, New York.
2012
Femme Caribe at La Alpargatería, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Nobody In The Vision at Aronson Gallery, Manhattan, New York.
2011
Plátano at Third Eye Solation Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
Hispanic Heritage Month at Diageo Showroom, Norwalk, Connecticut.
Refresh at Center City Galleries, Paterson, New Jersey.
26th Biennial of Visual Arts at the Museum of Modern Art. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Odd Couplings at 25 East Gallery, Manhattan, New York.
Cooper Square Hotel at Manhattan, New York.
2010
Chavoneros at Casa De Chavón Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Chavoneros at La Galeria, La Romana, Dominican Republic.
3rd Triennial of Ceramic Tiles at Centro León, Santiago, Dominican Republic.
Santiago Paulós & The School of Fine Arts at La Galería, Altos De Chavón, Dominican Republic.
Publications
Caribbean: Together Apart. Contemporary Artist from (part of) the Caribbean, Luciano Benetton
Collection. Fabrica, Italy, 2014.
Flow Magazine, Year11 No.137 Abril 2014.
Re Magazine. Destemplanza: the beauty of time inequality. 2013, Digital Article.
