Carlos Irizarry
Santa Isabela, P.R., 1938 - San Juan, P.R., 2017
Santa Isabela, P.R., 1938 - San Juan, P.R., 2017
Painter, printmaker and designer, and digital media artist. In the late 1940’s Irizarry emigrated to New York and studied at the School of Art and Design in that city. Later he worked as a commercial painter and designer and joined the Amigos de Puerto Rico artists’ studio. In 1968 he returned to Puerto Rico, where he co-founded the National Center for the Arts in San Juan and created Gallery 63, which was dedicated to promoting avant-garde art. In 1976 he was imprisoned in the United States for an act of artistic expression of a subversive nature. His work in the graphic arts is recognized for its employment of novel techniques, and he was the first Puerto Rican artist to work in the photo-silkscreen process. The use of photographs and juxtapositions of images are constants in his work, which is characterized by its critique of the local and international social and political situation. He has recently incorporated digital media into his work.
An artist highly committed with his ideals, which displays almost always with complete clarity, to be understood by the majority of the public. Therefore, in his work the preconceived idea, as in conceptual art, is the starting point to elaborate a series of images by means of silkscreen, the canvas, the mural, the collage, the creation of environments... To achieve this he can turn, if the topic requires it, to photographs that correspond to well-known works of art, characters from the political or artistic world and to universal events currently popularized by various mass media.
Source: Manuel Pérez-Lizano, Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, 1950-1983
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“El Artista como Adversario”, Museo de Arte Moderno, Nueva York, 1972.
“Art Gallery Guide”, Nueva York, 1968.
“Herencia Artística Puertorriqueña”, Museo Metropolitano de Arte, Nueva York, Nueva York, 1973.
Cherson, Samuel. “Arte como documento político”, El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 30 de octubre de 1983, pp. 12-14.
Pérez Lizano, Manuel. “Develado el díptico”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 30 de agosto de 1988, p. 68.
Rosado, Marisa, “Exposición de Carlos Irizarry y algo más”. Claridad, En Rojo (San Juan, PR), 21-27 de octubre de 1983, pp. 17-24
“Artistas Latinoamericanos en Nueva York”, Cisneros, 1961
“Puertorriqueños Ilustres en Nueva York”, 1963.
“Revista del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña”, 1971
“Revista de Arte C.A.A.M., Mayagüez”, 1971
Benitez, Marimar. “Arte y Política: el caso de Carlos Irizarry”. Revista del Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y del Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Núm.1, julio-diciembre 1985, págs. 86-89.
“Who’s Who in American Art”, 1973