Julio Micheli
Ponce, PR, 1937 - 2014
Ponce, PR, 1937 - 2014
Painter, graphic artist and designer, draftsman, assemblage artist, ceramicist, teacher, entomologist. Micheli studied electrical engineering at the Mayagüez Campus of the University of Puerto Rico and at the University of Miami, where he also studied commercial art (1962). He completed his MFA with a major in painting at Claremont Graduate University in California in 1965. On his return to the island that same year and through the late nineties he taught in the Department of Fine Arts at the Catholic University of Puerto Rico in Ponce. His entomological research has led him to discover several tropical species that now bear his name. He is currently dedicated to his career in art, which spans several media—watercolor, silkscreen, oil painting, acrylic on large-scale canvases, and constructions (for example, his well-known series Cajas/Boxes). Micheli’s work is Abstract Expressionist, with an enigmatic eroticism and a Dadaist/ Surrealist spirit, and conveys his desire to equate “personal expression” with the “essence of the medium.”
My proposals are unique, personal, and very creative, what I've produced through life has always had people who understand them and those which not; one has to know about art and perhaps also have the sensibility to understand this that has to do with artistic philosophy.
Julio Micheli, 2007
Source: Pérez Rivera, Tatiana. “Caja de sorpresas”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 15 de febrero de 2007, p. 90.
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“Construcciones de Julio Micheli”, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Colegio Regional de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico, 1984.
“Contexto puertorriqueño: del rococó colonial al arte global”, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2007.
“Julio Micheli: Cosas del Mago”, La Casa del Arte, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2007.
“Los tesoros de la pintura puertorriqueña, exhibición inaugural del Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico/ Treasures of Puerto Rican Painting, Inaugural Exhibit”, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2001.
“Micheli en Candina: Exposición de obras de Julio Micheli”, Casa Candina, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1992.
“Señales: Julio Micheli, Su Gente y Su Cultura”, Casa Paoli, Ponce, Puerto Rico, 1990.
Hermandad de Artistas Gráficos de Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico Arte e Identidad. San Juan: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 2004.
Alegre Barrios, Mario. “Pródigas las cajas de Julio Micheli”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 15 de marzo de 1992.
Bonilla Norat, Félix. “Micheli and Rodríguez”. The San Juan Star (San Juan, PR), 19 de junio de 1977.
Candal Salazar, Maruja. “Julio Micheli, Artista, Maestro y Coleccionista”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 17 de abril de 1975.
Cherson, Samuel B. “Micheli en el Museo de Bellas Artes”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 18 de junio de 1977.
Colón Camacho, Doreen M. “Eros y enigma en las cajas de Julio Micheli”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 5 de abril de 1992.
Pérez Rivera, Tatiana. “Caja de sorpresas”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 15 de febrero de 2007, pp. 90-91.
Murray, Néstor. “Fallece en Ponce Julio Micheli Lebrón”. 80grados, 15 de agosto de 2014. http://www.80grados.net/fallece-en-ponce-julio-micheli-lebron/