Ivelisse Jiménez
Ciales, Puerto Rico, 1966
Ciales, Puerto Rico, 1966
Painter, installation artist, draftswoman. Jiménez graduated from the University of Puerto Rico in 1993 and earned her master’s degree at New York University in 1999; she also studied at the Art Students League. Her first solo exhibition took place in 1996 at the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan, and she has since taken part in over 25 group shows, including A Way of Thinking, curated by Julie Sass in Denmark in 2002. In 2006, her work was chosen as a finalist from among the 941 works submitted to the International Painting Competition in Castellón, Spain. Recently, painting has been the point of departure for works—often installations, assemblages, and mixed-media constructions—that reveal contradiction and simultaneity. She uses materials that serve as veils blurring the pictorial elements and making them translucent, thus forcing viewers to search more intensely for the components and languages that make up her pieces and to consider how perception, language, and thought processes take place. She now lives in New York.
My works allude to the effusiveness of the mental-physical balance in our dialogue with the real; denote a similarity that is not final. Through changes of perspectives, movement and color I establish relations between the act of perceiving and the simultaneous act of evaluating and giving meaning to that experience. I use varied materials maintaining the integrity of each part within the whole. The informality and impermanence of the creations, therefore, propose a game to the observer: think what you perceive or perceive what you think?
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Quesada, Fernando. ABC (Madrid, España), febrero 2004.
Fernandez, Cristina. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), febrero 2004.
Rubinstein, Rápale. Art in America (Estados Unidos), 2003.
Ander, Pernillo. Jpkobaenhavn, (Copenhagen, Dinamarca), enero 2002.
López, Ángel, Maria Matter O’Neil. El Cuarto del Quenepón (San Juan, PR), 2001.
Stillman, Nick. The Queens Scene (Estados Unidos), 2001.
Vélez, Pedro. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), septiembre 2001.
Art New England (Estados Unidos), julio 2000.
Michael Loderstedt. Dialogue (Estados Unidos), julio 2000.
Echegaray, Mariel. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), agosto 2000.
Bravo, Emmanuel. San Juan Star (San Juan, PR), octubre 1999.