{"title":"Jorge Posada","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"max-height: 300px; max-width:55%\" src=\"https:\/\/helloart-prod-bucket.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/artist\/jorge-posada\/jorge-posada-profile.jpg\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJorge Posada: A Life Across Borders\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Medellín, Colombia, Jorge Posada is a painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work bridges two worlds. His talent was recognized early: as a young artist, he won the first prize at the prestigious Salon of Young Art at the Antioquia Art Museum in his hometown. Honors soon followed, an award from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bogotá, an Honorable Mention at the Expresiones Hispanas Art Tour USA, and a feature on Channel 13’s documentary The New Immigrants.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003ePosada’s public practice is equally powerful. He transformed the Ritz Theater in Elizabeth, New Jersey, with a monumental 1,500-square-foot mural, a testament to his commitment to community and large-scale storytelling.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eSince the 1980s, Posada has lived and worked in New York, where his Long Island City studio has become a creative anchor. He serves on the board of the nonprofit LIC Artists and is the founder and curator of the annual LIC Drawing Show, a cornerstone of the local art scene. His work is collected and exhibited internationally, from Europe to South America to the United States, yet it remains deeply rooted in the immigrant experience and the rhythms of urban life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eARTIST’S STATEMENT\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his paintings, drawings and sculptures, Jorge Posada primarily works in a semi-abstract depiction of the human body, exploring both its realistic and abstract qualities. His work investigates the tension between structure and chaos, the premeditated and the improvised within the gestural representation of the human form.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eBefore starting a new artwork, Posada studies the numerous sketches he continuously creates. These sketches serve as the original visual foundation, not through their literal translation into the final piece, but through the memorized images they leave in his mind.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003ePosada employs a mixed-media approach, using acrylic, oil and charcoal. To establish the color sequence and overall composition, he relies on the fast and versatile application of acrylics, combined with charcoal to define areas of interest and expression. He finalizes his paintings by applying several layers of color and transparencies, a process that allows him to achieve a rich and subtle finish.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eImmersed in the urban environment, his principal source of inspiration is the human being. He is drawn to their presence, anonymous, fragmented, and in constant movement. He explores figures articulated or disarticulated, constrained by real or imagined barriers, concealed within limited spaces, and struggling to escape societal, geographical, or mentally imposed boundaries.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eBy deliberately working with a monochromatic color palette, Posada aims to reveal a mysterious and unpredictable concert of human forms. For him, painting is an act of manifesting and uncovering the hidden qualities of the human body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"metamorphosis-iv-diptych","title":"Metamorphosis IV Diptych","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOil on canvas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e124x78x2\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne painting form the series Metamorphosis done in Oil on canvas with an intensive treatment in transparencies. The composition show several bodies in movement and interlayered by the use of redrawing the human figures several times in the same pictorial plane.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jorge Posada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44672141033575,"sku":null,"price":43020.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0063\/3038\/4487\/files\/1_1789762254_60153.jpg?v=1789998973"},{"product_id":"fragmenting-rubens-vi","title":"Fragmenting Rubens VI","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOil, acrylic on canvas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e145x175x2\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Mixed media painting in Black and white on a grey background. Belongs to the series Fragmenting Rubens, a project of several paintings done as an homage to the great Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jorge Posada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44672148373607,"sku":null,"price":22945.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0063\/3038\/4487\/files\/1_1789764516_53646.jpg?v=1789999034"},{"product_id":"the-rituals-of-violence-i","title":"The Rituals of Violence I","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCharcoal on canvas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e79x58x2\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis composition shows several human bodies in a vertical arrangement. The art works has a very dramatic and powerful presence to emphasize the encounters where the human body is involved and showing how fragile its the line between eroticism  and violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jorge Posada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44672151158887,"sku":null,"price":28680.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0063\/3038\/4487\/files\/1_1789765993_33116.jpg?v=1789999060"},{"product_id":"straitjacket-ii","title":"Straitjacket II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOil, acrylic on canvas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e52x56x2\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSemi-abstract or semi-figurative painting showing two human bodies attached, limited in their movement. An allusion to a lack of freedom or limited mental or physical states The human bodies appear only as a suggested presence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jorge Posada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44672152928359,"sku":null,"price":17210.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0063\/3038\/4487\/files\/1_1789766605_45512.jpg?v=1789999078"},{"product_id":"metamorphosis-ii","title":"Metamorphosis II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMixed media, oil, charcoal on canvas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e79x58x2\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA painting in black and white of several human bodies in movement as the main subject in the composition. 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