Lourdes Rivera -Lulu
"Color immerses me in the intense passion of Painting."
Biography
Graduated Master Architect, Lourdes Rivera, -LULU born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA, a bright and colorful island in the Caribbean, which has mostly inspired and define the particular color expression of the artist's palette and technique. Trained since childhood under Master Painter Fran Cervoni's teachings, commenced Pencil Drawing, then Charcoal and finally Oil Painting, which developed the passion for painting. Painting since then; and later studying Architecture and Music. Architecture as a multidiscipline, provided the design fundamentals, and a solid base to create everything after conceptualizing, with cohesion and harmony, achieving a mature artwork. In recent years more actively Painting, experimenting with new materials, mediums and techniques: from Figurative, Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, to Fully Conceptual Abstracts. Have held Collective and Solo EXPOS; tv interviews; received grants dedicated to selected Artists from the Flamboyan Foundation for Arts in Puerto Rico, (which includes among it's philanthropists: Lin Manuel Miranda & Mike Bloomberg); working as an Independent Artist including Special Commissioned Artworks.
Lourdes Rivera, -LULU is active in San Juan, Puerto Rico, working diligently on expanding her technique and adding new and exciting elements to her work. Passionate about Painting, she has a hunger for growing in format developing her own style: the "Impressionist Expressionism", [or "Expressionist Impressionism"], in her undistinguishable colorful palette, which is her stamp and unequivocal mark. She has developed a very personal representative technique based on observation and on what the brain captures, (what she identifies as the brain's “interpretation templates”). So she tries to represent in her Work what the eye and mind really grasp from life from around us all: a kind of a compromise between the “infinite dimension of the mind interpretation” and the “finite physical reality”. Started exhibiting Individually and also Collectively; then selling Paintings and some of her Collectors have repeated purchasing (liking her among their favorites Artists); participating in International online Art Contests; her technique and use of materials has also evolved from oil painting, to acrylics, mixed media; texture mediums, alcohol inks, resin, pastels, cheese cloth, etc.; and also works Figurative, Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and her “Impressionist Expressionism”; experiments with more media and bigger format.
Influences
Chagall, Monet, Matisse, Abstract Expressionism, Contemporary Art, Conceptual Art, Modern Art, Arnaldo Roche Rabell, Basquiat, Jackson Pollock, Boticelli, Roy Lichtenstein, Daniel Richter, Paul Gaugin
Education
The artist at work
Prizes and Awards
2024 Luxembourg Art Prize 2024: Certificate Of Artistic Achievement Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Solo Expositions
2023 Reinhold Jewelers, Plaza las Américas San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
2023 Hotel Meliá Ponce Ponce, Puerto Rico, United States
2021 College of Engineers and Surveyors of Puerto Rico, CIAPR; Casa Italia Restaurant; 2 Scenarios of the TeleOro TV Station, Channel 13 San Juan, PR, United States
2021 West Elm store, Plaza las Américas San Juan, PR, United States
2020 West Elm store, Plaza las Américas San Juan, PR, United States
2018 Reinhold Jewelers, Plaza las Américas San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
2018 Cardiovascular Center of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean; & Reinhold Jewelry Plaza las Américas San Juan, PR, United States
Collective Expositions
2024 https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/13499077/wynwood-juried-show-digital Miami, Florida, United States
2024 Two (2) Paintings were Selected by a Jury to the Wynwood Juried Show 2024. Miami, Florida, United States
2024 “LIBRE” Expo at UPR Ponce with AAPPR, winner in the Abstract Category Ponce, Puerto Rico, United States
2024 3 Artistas en la Casa de España San Juan, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, United States
2023 Two (2) Paintings exhibiting at the “Abstracciones y Figuraciones” Expo together with the Asociación Puertorriqueña de Artistas Plásticos, APAP, at Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, August to October Carolina, Puerto Rico, United States
2023 Winner of 3rd Prize, Category: Abstract Painting-mixed media at the 3rd Biennial of Asociación de Artistas Plásticos de Puerto Rico Carolina, Puerto Rico, United States
2023 Casa Aboy Museum, Miramar, Collective together with AAPPR San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
2023 UMET 5th Anniversary Hound - Collective Art Expo San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
2023 Two (2) Paintings exhibiting at the “Abstracciones y Figuraciones” Expo together with the Asociación Puertorriqueña de Artistas Plásticos, APAP, at Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, August to October Carolina, Puerto Rico, United States
2023 3rd Biennial Asociación de Artistas Plásticos de Puerto Rico Carolina, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
2022 XVIII Ponce Art Biennial Ponce, Puerto Rico, United States
2022 Casa Aboy Museum, Miramar, Collective together with AAPPR San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
2022 UMET Women's Expo Mujer 3 San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
2022 18th Art Biennial of Ponce, Puerto Rico Ponce, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, United States
2021 Casa Aboy Museum, Miramar, Collective together with AAPPR San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
2021 Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Old San Juan, together with AAPPR for the Visual Artist Commemoration Week San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
2021 1st Palmas del Mar Art Gala Humacao, Puerto Rico, United States
2021 Gruppo Italia Collective Expo 10 Women: “Atypical” Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, United States
2021 Second Biennial Salón Casa Escuté Museum, Carolina, together with Asociación de Artistas Plásticos de Puerto Rico, AAPPR Carolina, Puerto Rico, United States
2021 UMET Women's Expo Mujer 2 San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
2021 2nd Biennial Asociación de Artistas Plásticos de Puerto Rico Municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico, United States
2020 Virtual Expo during Pandemic together with APAP San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
2019 Gruppo Italia Collective Expo with APAP Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, United States
2019 UMET Women's Expo Mujer 1 San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
2019 Museum of the History of Ponce Ponce, Puerto Rico, United States
2016 College of Architects and Landscape Architects of Puerto Rico, CAAPPR San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States