ABClatino Magazine Year 8 Issue 3 | Page 15

Invitada / Guest: Elisa Pritzker

Larry Clark, 

Untitled, 1963,

 Ⓒ Larry Clark; Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York

 

Fotos por / Photos by Sevan Melikyan

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Artista / Artist: Barry Wolfryd

Curadora / Curator: Elisa Pritzker

Barry Wolfryd was born in Los Angeles, California, but he has carried out most of his artistic career in Mexico, where he has lived for more than 45 years. Wolfryd began his artistic studies in 1972 at Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, Connecticut. At age 22, he moved to Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, where he continued his studies at the University of the Americas, and from 1975 to 1979, at the Allende Institute in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. In 1982, he studied at the Chicago Art Institute (student-at-large) and in 1984, at the National Institute of the Arts in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. In 1985, he settled in Mexico City, where he lives and maintains his studio.

Wolfryd’s work encompasses painting, mixed media, sculpture in ceramics, bronze and glass, object art and graphics. He focuses on the use of iconography and popular imagery as a vehicle for criticism. Since 1985, he has held more than 40+ individual exhibitions and participated in more than 120 group presentations. Among them, exhibitions in relevant museums, institutions and galleries in various countries.