I live just up the street from this brewery, and yesterday on the way home I decided to take a short detour and check what may be currently showing at the brewery’s beautiful gallery space. And I was glad I did as I ran into the beautiful exhibit of Kelman’s dozen or so portraits. The […]
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, […]
(May 11, 2024 / Photo: Jorge Ibanez) Robert Frost famously said that good fences make good neighbors. Which some may think is at the core of good New England Yanki philosophy of life, but with which it seems he did not agree. But, of course, he was picking up much more than boulders in that […]
(Yellow Towers, acrylic on canvas by JIbanez) Sometimes I think back on my childhood and I think ‘man, someone has to be making this shit up…’ Back when I was seven (sixty five years ago!), my parents moved us from our little sugar cane town of Canovanas to the capital, part of a huge migration […]
WOW! This is such an amazing flight-of-the-spirit book dressed up as a very imaginative and fun sci-fy tour de force. As all good science fiction should be. The book consists of a set of 30 vignettes encased by a prologue and an epilogue and divided in equal parts by three ‘intermissions. The prologue and the […]
(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 […]
(Photos by JIbanez) When you first enter the Alexander Hanson installation at the Santa Fe College Gallery, you are met by a bench packed with construction tools and materials under the show’s sign ‘Don’t let me screw this up’. It is a play of words with the nature of the installation that is about to […]
Professor Emily Levesque’s book is not an academic astronomy treatise. It is not an academic class textbook. It is on the other hand a very engaging and fun read about the ‘observational’ astronomer’s day-to-day life. It almost sounds like an interesting friend’s narration about the behind the scene challenges, discoveries and, often, even tedious waits […]
This morning I woke up to rolling thunder calling to tasks. The house was dark, not with night sleeping darkness, but with grey dark tea demanding silence. Making my way through the living room, I could hear the first timid uncertain drops of rain falling on the yard and hurried to pick up the paper […]
(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 […]