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 Arnaldo Roche's vibrant paintings honor the lush tropical landscape of his native Puerto Rico. The artist's impassioned creative approach fuses drawing, painting, etching, and printmaking into a unique style that explores the relationship between representation and reality. Brilliant patterns and foliage decorate the artist's vibrant surfaces and enhance the fabric of each painting. Multi-colored prints of painted banana leaves and palm fronds dance across Roche's large works. Ferns pressed into oil paint and pulled off before fully dry leave a negative imprint of their feathery fronds. Roche's ingenious experiments with paint result in dense, textured compositions that are scratched away to reveal a myriad of brilliant colors below. Layers of partially dry paint accumulate on the canvases, resulting in wrinkling and cracking. Carefully sliced strips and mounds of tacky oil paint are incorporated into Roche's relief-like surfaces. The artist's original approach to creating also includes rubbings and lace stencils. Issues related to self-exploration figure prominently in Roche's paintings. A discerning eye can observe faces emerging from foliage and allusions to human forms amid the artist's complex compositions. Arnaldo Roche embodies the gallery's interest in internationally recognized mid-career artists, especially those who explore the landscape of Florida and the Caribbean. |
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