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Edgar Soberon
 
 
About the Artist

The central focus of my work over the last fifteen years has been the still life.
I find the subject endless, perhaps even inexhaustible given the complexity and variety of the everyday world that surrounds us. It is from this complexity even chaos, that I attempt to salvage a few things from the world around me. Mundane things, which perhaps through the process of drawing and close observation will become the impetus for the making of a picture. I seek a certain order,clarity and balance in my work, while at the same time retaining the tensions that are implicit in the process of seeing, drawing and painting.I have found that still life opens a wide range of possibilities for the infinite arrangement, selection and manipulation of both the reality at hand and the formal elements of painting; light, color, composition. In this sense it is the most abstract form of realism one can practice, at once formal while at the same time firmly anchored to reality. This apparent ambivalence or duality found in still life bridges the gap in my work between traditional illusionistic space and flat modern abstract space. It has come to represent in my experience the essence of what paintings communicate: that which is still, visual and silent, an echo of our existance, the trace of our passing.

 
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La Leche

2005
30 x35 cm

Platanos en Gris

2005
80 x 100 cm

Mexican Deterrant

2005
80 x 90 cm

Caballo con canicas

2005
40 x 50 cm

Spanish Olives

2005
30 x 35 cm

Ventana

2005
130 x 140 cm

Pina Nona

2008
Oil on canvas
70 x 90 cm

Pina Nona

Citricos del Lobo

2006
Oil on canvas
50 x 60 cm

Citricos del Lobo

El Ojo

2000
Oil on linen
30 x 50cm

Bascula

2006
Oil on canvas
135 x 160 cm

Bascula

aguacates

2006
Oil on canvas
130 x 160 cm

aguacates
 
Education and biography
Education

1983-1987
BFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY.
1986
American College in Paris Parsons School of Design, Paris, France

Exhibitions
Movements in Stillness: The Still Life Paintings of Edgar Soberon, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
2007 Panorama Latino Americano
Group Exhibition
Artspace- Virginia Miller Gallery, Miami, Florida
2005-2006 Tools in Motion: Works from the Hechinger Collection, traveling group exhibition;
Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Sept-Nov 2005 Museum of Texas Tech University, Texas, Nov 2005- Mar 2006 Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art, Apr ? May 2006 Mariana Kistler Museum of Art at Kansas State University, Kansas, Jun- Aug, 2006
Generator Gallery, Still Life:Bodegones,Group exhibition, Fabrica la Aurora, San Miguel de Allende,Mexico
Young Latin Americans: Group Exhibition, Artspace, Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, Miami, Florida
Latin American Invitational:
Group Exhibition, Artspace, Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, Miami,Florida
2003-2004
Newer Genres: Twenty Years of the Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey
2003
Group Exhibition, Galerí¡ Casa Museo Pedro Friedeberg, San Miguel de Allende, Gto. Mexico
2001
Galerí¡ Acquavella, Feria del Arte Internacional, Caracas, Venezuela
1999
Silent Things, Secret Things: Still Life from Rembrandt to the Millennium, Albuquerque Museum,Albuquerque,New Mexico
Reflections of Time and Place: Latin American Still Life in the 20th Century, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York / Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
Group Show, Associated American Artists, New York, New York
Naturalezas Muertas, Centro Cultural El Nigromante, San Miguel de Allende, Gto. Mexico
1998-1999
Edgar Sober󮺠Cuban Reveries,Solo Exhibition, Associated American Artists, New York, NY
1998 On Paper, Associated American Artists, New York,NY
Edgar Sober󮺠Recent Still Life Prints, Gallery 2/20, New York,NY
1997
Group Exhibition, The Hudson Guild, New York, NY
Exploring Metaphor: The Hechinger Collection, National Building Museum Washington, DC
Galerí¡ Palomas, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Group exhibition
1996
Small Prints, Joint Faculty Print Exhibition, University of West England, Bristol
Inprints, The Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, New York, New York
1995
LRC Gallery, Nicolet College, Rhinelander, Wisconsin
1994
Galerí¡ Palomas, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Group exhibition
Three Artists' Works on Paper, NAW Gallery, New York, NY
1992
Visions In The Poetry of Maya Islas, Ollantay Center for the Arts, Queens, New York
1989
Small is Big, Small Works Exhibition, Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1988
Tribute to Artistic Achievement, Broadway Gallery, Passaic Community College, New Jersey



Appointments
1992-2002
Foundation Program, Parsons School of Design New York, NY Drawing Instructor
Printmaking Department, Parsons School of Design New York,NY Printmaking Instructor


Awards
1995-1996
Distinguished University Teaching Excellence Award,
New School University / Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1983-1987
Deans List Honors, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1986
Brunschwig and Fil Scholarship, American College in Paris / Parsons School of Design, Paris, France
1980 Augustus St. Gaudens Medal Award for outstanding draftsmanship, Board of Education New York, NY

Public Collections:

Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Museum of Art, Rutgers Archives for Printmaking, Rutgers,New York
Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
The Hechinger Collection, Washington, DC
The Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC
El Convento, San Juan, PR
El Condado Plaza, San Juan, PR
Casa Larios, Miami, Florida
TIAAC, Teachers Insurance and Annuities, Co. New York, NY
 
Future shows
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery Alabama, will present the exhibition Movements in Stillness: The Still Life Paintings of Edgar Soberon this fall. The exhibition opens to the public on October 24, 2009 and will be on view through January, 24 2010.

Soberon work can be seen at Artspace Virginia Miller, Coral Gables, Miami, Florida.
 
Website:  www.esoberon.com
 
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