Fred Villanueva Arts Slide Galleries

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Caprichos: Digital Chaos
Digital Prints celebrating color and serial methods. 2007
Polyptychs: Consumer Society
Collage paintings that combine pop and expressionist painting. 2004-7
Western Paintings 2007
Figurative oil paintings that combine pop with expressionist painting. 2003-7
Retablos
Small minimal oil paintings on metal panels. 2001-6
Seeds and Symbols
Small metaphorical paintings on wooden panels. 2001-6
Watercolors: Consumer Society
Figurative watercolor paintings of symbols, figures, and color blended with mark-making. 2001-7
Watercolors 2007: Figuration
Gesture watercolor paintings of symbols, figuration, and color blended with mark-making. 2001-7
Magdalenes and Models
Figurative oil paintings that combine expressionist painting. 2004-5
Paintings 2003-5
Oil paintings that combine Renaissance, Surreal, Pop, and Roman Catholic images. 2002-5
Paintings 2003-5 Polyptychs
Oil paintings that combine Renaissance, Surreal, Pop, and Roman Catholic images. 2003-5
California
Digital photographs of food that illustrate the obsession of struggling for resources. 2003
Abs and Errs
Medium scale oil paintings that utilize texture, color, line, and curve drawing. 2003
Ingles Basico
Collage drawings with prints that use visual, actual, and picture language. 2003
Large Oils 2002-3
Large Scale oil paintings that develop expressionist gesture, color, and imagery. 2002-3
Last Supper Drawings
Collage drawings based on details of the Last Suppers by da Vinci and Warhol. 2004
Murals 2002 prog
Progressive shots of mural scale works in progress. 2002-
Murals 2003 prog
Progressive shots of mural scale works in progress. 2003-
Philosopher T-shirts
100% Cotton Shirts featuring the names of important philosophers. 2003
Pop Crosses
Variations of several different types of crosses painted serially. 2004
Religious Drawings
Collage drawings with digital prints that use printed images, drawing, and paint. 2004
Small Crosses
Small oil paintings of the Cross, painted serially. 2004
Small Paintings 2002-3
Small oil paintings and oil sketches, abstract, non-objective, expressionist, and figurative. 2002-3
Small Paintings 2004
Small oil and acrylic paintings and sketches that use imagery, symbolism, color, and text. 2004
Contours
Prints that explore anthropomorphism, color, and archeological data maps. 1999-2002
Calculated Failures (Details)
Conceptually influenced sculptural installations and photographs made with food. 2002
Installation 93-94
Time-based, with food, dirt, and grass, about gender, culture, and environment. 1993-94
Nippon-neon Photography
Photo works created while travelling of light, darkness, and environment. 2000-2002
Large Canvases 2001-2
Gesture Oil paintings of symbols, figuration, color, and expression blended with mark-making. 2001-2
Expansion Works II
Works that explore drawing, collage, digital reproduction, installation, and color. 2001-2
Paintings 2002
Gesture Oil paintings of portraiture, figuration, color, and expression blended with mark-making. 2001-2
Painting 93-95
Gesture paintings of symbols, figuration, color, and iconography blended with mark-making. 1993-95
Photography 93-95
Various photo works, of everyday life, about gender, culture, and environment. 1993-95
Histories (Reversals)
"Expansion" Works that explore drawing, recycled imagery, digital projections. 2001-2
Similarities (Reversals)
"Expansion" Works that explore drawing, digital randomization, similarity, video projection. 2001-2
Sculpture 92-95
Steel models for monument scale works, whose meanings are relevant to cultural location. 1992-95
Expansion Works I
Works that explore drawing, digital reproduction, similarity, video projection, and color. 2001-2
Watercolors 2001-2
Gesture watercolor paintings of symbols, figuration, and color blended with mark-making. 2001-2
Digital Prints (Similarities)
An "expansion" work that explores drawing, digital reproduction, similarity, and color. 2001
Histories
Paintings on digital prints that deal with "recycled" imagery, historicity, and individuality. 1996-2000
Lautreamont
Drawings for the pivotal text, Les Chants de Maldoror, by Le Comte de Lautreamont. 1996
Large Watercolors 95
Watercolor paintings of symbols, figuration, color, and iconography blended with mark-making.1995
Sketches of Spain
Conceptual drawings created while traveling between Madrid and Barcelona in 1998.
Codex Madrid
Drawings and paintings focusing on color and form created while living in Spain in 1999.
NYC watercolors
Watercolor paintings of symbols, figuration, color, and iconography, mark-making.1995
The Furies
Large mixed-media paintings on paper, exploring color, gesture, line, and emotional pitch. 2001
Paris Madrid
Exploratory drawings created while traveling in between France and Spain in 1998.
San Francisco
Poetic drawings with digital prints exploring pre-Columbian symbolism, folk, and brut. 1996
Snake Prints
Digital prints that collage pictures of serpents with drawings and paintings, in progress. 1996-
Texas Watercolors
Watercolor paintings of symbols, figuration, color, and iconography blended with mark-making.1995
Watercolors 95
Watercolor paintings of symbols, figuration, color, and iconography blended with mark-making.1995
NYC Acrylic Paintings 95
Gesture paintings of symbols, figuration, color, and iconography blended with mark-making. 1995
Paper Painting-Drawings 95
Mixed-media paintings on paper, exploring color, gesture, and folk figuration. 1995
Serie Catala
Small exploratory drawings and paintings created while traveling in Catalunya in 1998.
Bags
Pen drawings on brown paper bags that explore the meaning jazz. 2001
Blue Green Drawings 95
Mixed-media works on paper, exploring color, gesture, and folk figuration. 1995
Blues
Blue watercolor paintings and drawings on paper with digital prints. 2000.
Blue Spain
Prints that exploit and subvert the concepts of original and multiple. 2000
Browns
Brown watercolor paintings and drawings on paper with digital prints, created in the year 2000.
Brklyn
A group of drawings and gouache paintings that explores representation and symbols. 1996.
Blue Yellow Paintings
Large mixed-media works on paper, exploring color, gesture, line, and emotional pitch. 2001
Coffee Drawings
Mixed-media works on paper, exploring line, stain, and drawing. 1999-2001
Cyprus Drawings
Small works on paper, exploring color, form, and gesture drawing. 2000-2001
Deceptions
Collaged "cut-up" drawings that explore gesture, color, form, drawing, and perspective. 2001