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| Roberto Juarez |
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Completion Date:
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1995
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Medium:
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Aluminum, acrylic, plexi
glass, terazzo
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Dimensions:
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diameter 22'
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Location:
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I.S. 2
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Address:
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655 Parkside Avenue/Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn
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Architect:
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Richard Dattner, P.C.
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Sponsor Agency:
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Board of Education
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Design Agency:
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School Construction Authority
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Roberto Juarez's twenty-two foot circular ceiling mural in the main entrance lobby of the new school is made up of four vivid concentric bands of color with a variety of trees and plants scattered over the surface. The artist describes these as "representing the many cultures that make up the fabric of the school's community." Images depicted include a palm tree from the tropics, a flower from an Egyptian wall painting, and a bowl of fruit from a Persian miniature painting. The ceiling mural was executed on hexal aluminum, using high-load golden acrylic paint textured with plexiglass shavings and is slightly recessed into the ceiling. It is echoed by a terrazzo floor which mirrors the mural in more earthen tones.
About the Artist...
Roberto Juarez's paintings have been exhibited throughout the U.S. and Mexico, including the Robert Miller Gallery, NY; the Center for Fine Arts, Miami, Florida; the Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and at the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas. His work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and El Museo del Barrio, in New York, as well as the Newark Museum, New Jersey and the J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky. He has completed other public art projects for the Miami Beach Police Department and the Inter-America Building in Coral Gables, Florida, and is presently working on projects for the Miami International Airport and Grand Central Station in New York City.
Artist Quote...
The process of how the art piece developed was a first for me. Meeting the children from the school completely affected my working process. My original proposal was a black-and-white stripped piece very much like the paintings I was showing in galleries at the time. This was not what they wanted for their school. They wanted an art work that depicted living things in beautiful colors. I am grateful to them for pushing me into another way of approaching this project. -- Juarez, 1996
