Francisco.F Vidals Biography

Francisco FVidal grew up in Barranquilla,Colombia after attending school of fine art-Bellas artes for three years, he worked in his home-studio in barranquilla and in 1969 hi left to new york City for a good opportunity.In 1984 he was honor with a grant from the Jerome foundation in New York city for study lithography, also in 1984 is ohnored with a scholarship for a studio for three years(1984-1986) in National StudioProgram,(P.S.1.)Project Studio One,Long Island City,New york in 1992 gain ascholarship for $5.000,oo and available to produce his first edition of Serigraphy from the Foundation midAtlantic Arts FoundationNationalEndowment for the arts regional scholarship,baltimore,mariland.Hi exhibit his paintings in galleries and museum in U.S.A. also in Mexico,Monterrey,Italy,Spain and SouthAmerica.His works encompasses landscape.portraiture,figure,still life,i painting in a figurative way FranciscoFVidal live and work in New York City

Artist's Statement

My work is figurative. I produce series with themes like "The Carnival ","Naked","the artist in the studio","The model","The artist",and a new one called "Womans and still ife on the beach"This is referring to the thematic.The process is throughts departing from the idea of imagining a space to express love,hate,resentment,violence,peace and hope in a contemporary language.The discovery is using the imagination since I work whith out model in from of me.it is a poetic-spiritual,orotic dialogue that together forms a whirlwind which is the result of a beatiful visual dialogue.The formt star from small to large and this is the way it enriches the creative process and flow in order to express my diaologue.I am prolific artist Francisco FVidal