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Painter, sculptor and creator of installations. In 2005, he obtains a Bachelor’s Degree of Visual Arts from the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in San Juan, Puerto Rico. During the past 20 years, he has taken independent courses under the tutelage of artists such as Fran Cervoni and Amanda Carmona Bosch, and with Melanie Reign in the Dominican Republic. He is a founding member of The Storehouse Group, a gallery that provided a platform for emerging Puerto Rican artists to break into the international art market, and is founder of La corporación Artist Studios, which offered studio space to emerging artists. During the past years, his work has been part of exhibitions in Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Barcelona. In 2010, he was awarded first place at the 3er Certamen de Arte Joven of Oriental Bank and Trust of Puerto Rico. In 2011, he received the Beca Lexus para Artistas and exhibited his work at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. He is characterized by his works of architectonic and urban lines by way of his paintings that represent gas stations and his tridimensional constructions that recreate scaled plans of cities.
“In my paintings, photographs, sculptural objects and installations I strive to present how my approach towards the architecture of my immediate environment is disengaged. I am interested in the way the architectural landscape and the actions of the subordinated influences of the aesthetic experience affect me. These works are constructions and conceptions of generic architectural volumes which I find difficult to relate with in my daily trips through the island’s metropolis.
I have a special interest in the physical and psychological qualities of the architectural space, as well as its historical preeminence and its commercial relevance. In some pieces, it is inevitable that these conditions arise in their discourse. In general, my pieces are approached as experiments, of perception, recognition and manifestation which hide in the surface of everyday life.”
Rogelio Báez, 2012
Source: http://rogeliobaez.wordpress.com/
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Nogueras, Celina. Frescos: 50 artistas puertorriqueños menores de 35. San Juan, PR: Muuaaa, 2010. pp. 350.
“Entregan becas Lexus para artistas”. Primera Hora (San Juan, PR), 4 de agosto de 2011.
Jiménez Martínez, Ingrid María. “El paraíso perdido”. Diálogo (San Juan, PR), marzo-abril 2010. P. 22.
Pérez Rivera, Tatiana. “Los 50 ‘frescos’”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 18 de diciembre de 2010, pp. 80-81.
Sjostrom, Jon. “Young, edgy artists get buzz at alternative fairs”. Palm Beach Daily News, (Palm Beach, FL), 9 de diciembre de 2006.
Toro, Ana Teresa. “El otro paisaje”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 7 de abril de 2011.
Toro, Ana Teresa. “Domina la pintura”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 12 de marzo de 2010, p. 82.
Toro, Ana Teresa. “Accesible comunión creadora”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 23 de junio de 2005, p. 7.
Fontana, Lilia. “Trends. Aspects of Latin American contemporary art at Merrill Lynch Art Americas. A curatorial project since 2003 in Miami”. The Art Magazine Wynwood, (Miami, FL), 2008.
Herrera, Adriana. “Las sorpresas de MNA de Puerto Rico”. Art Nexus, (Miami, FL), Abril-Mayo 2007. Núm. 64, Vol. 6. pp. 155.
“The store house group: ptoyecto de autogestión puertorriqueño”, Art Premium, Marzo- Abril 2007. Núm. 18. Vol. 4.pp. 8.
Charo Henríquez, Joe Coscarelli, Michael Paulson, Jennifer Schuessler. “El arte, otra forma de reconstruir la vida tras el huracán”, 21 de septiembre de 2018, The New York Times (Nueva York, EEUU). https://www.nytimes.com/es/2018/09/21/espanol/america-latina/huracan-mar…
Hanley, William. “Armory Week: Growing up with scope”, 3 de diciembre de 2007, Bouling Art Info. http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/24468/armory-week-growing-up-wit…
Jiménez, Ingrid. “La profesora de Historia y Teoría de Arte Contemporáneo, Ingrid María Jiménez Martínez reflexiona sobre las posibilidades que tienen los cuadros de Rogelio Báez de repensar nuestro paisaje isleño al en ellos no aparecer una iconografía asociada con el trópico», 7 de abril de 2010. Diálogo Digital. http://dialogodigital.com/index.php/Dialogo/Desafio/Desafio/El-paraiso-p…
Scope New York. 2012. http://scope-art.com/shows/new-york-2012/programs/
Segarra, Abdiel. “Documentación – Land Escapes – exhibición individual de Rogelio Báez Vega”, 17 de abril de 2011. ConBoca. http://www.conboca.org/2011/04/17/documentacion-land-escapes-exhibicion-…
The Dams 2. 2007. http://repuestoweb.org/?paged=10
Weinstein, Joel. “La Tierra Tiembla”, Rotund World. Episode 25. Marzo 2007. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/25th_Edition/index.html
