May 27, 2023 / Banner Art by Juan Ibáñez Blondett // . La Casa Aboy presenta desde el 1 de agosto al 15 de setiembre de 2024, los trabajos en acrílico sobre lienzo y sobre papel de los hermanos Juan y José ‘Pepe’ Ibáñez Blondett. La sustanciosa muestra explora en retrospectiva una pluralidad de estilos,...Read More

(February 1, 2024) Banner Art: Jorge Ibanez) Although I have lived in Gainesville, Florida, for over 40 years, I still present myself as a Puerto Rican artist. I work in pastel, watercolor, linocut, photography, and acrylic. Recently I have been working mostly in acrylic and watercolor. I have shown my works in individual and group...Read More

(July 1, 2023, Banner art by JIbanez) This sample of my work features acrylic-paint-on-cardboard icons of catholic saints. These images are based on the wood carvings by my brother José ‘Pepe’ Ibanez, a Puertorrican Saints wood carver. The subject of the show was chosen as an homage to my brother’s beautiful work, of which I...Read More

As expected, and as it was proper, this year Thanksgiving celebration was certainly not a typical De Paz family thanksgiving party. Our late lunch was a more intimate affair, but not less thankful and, maybe for the same reason, more deeply felt. Johnny and Jess came over from Charlotte for a week. As they are...Read More

It has been an uncertain spring. What with criminally delusional Tzar wannabes, record hot temperatures and the hallucinatory visions of encroaching droughts hand in hand with floods threatening of much worse to come, every new shoot in the garden, any breath of not scorching breeze and every new timid flower seem like veritable miracles, tentative...Read More

(January 31, 2020/ Photo: Jorge Ibanez) As I come to the end of an amazing year of revelations, discoveries, agonizing indecisions and huge acts of faith and acceptance, I sense a world of new horizons opening ahead of me. For one, I am wrapping a yearlong exploration of breads, bread baking and techniques, my previous...Read More

(November 30, 2018/  Jorge Ibanez / Photo: Jorge Ibanez)   Well, wasn’t this a ‘de Paz’ Thanksgiving…. This festivity, based on an absolute falsified ‘historic’ anecdote, has taken such a hold in Puerto Rico that you would swear the Pilgrims landed near Yabucoa (God forbid, Catholics were bad enough!!). And, although not yet a deserving...Read More