Analvis Somoza Jiménez (Analvis) was born on February 23, 1965, in Havana, Cuba. I graduated from the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts, "San Alejandro" in the specialty of Plastic Arts in 1994. My teachers were the renowned Cuban visual artists José Miguel Pérez, Aguedo Alonso, Pedro Pérez Pulido. My interests in the plastic arts come from childhood, enrolling in the Elementary School of Plastic Arts, "José A. Páez".
I also have knowledge in the area of restoration and conservation of pictorial works, working on it in the historical museum of the City of Havana. In 1994, she started as a creative artist at the Victor Manuel Gallery, the Wifredo Lam center and the Varadero Hotel and Art Galleries Complex Center, she began her investment in the art market, successfully commercializing the works. her.
I have ventured into artisan work, especially in the Parch-Work technique, including many other possibilities of manual work such as ceramics and engraving. The above has been fruitful in terms of various recognitions to her pieces, in events such as: FIART 91 PARCH-WORK, as well as the one obtained at the Third International Colloquium Fair on Cuban Crafts.
I have important exhibitions inside and outside of his native island, among which we can mention: Images in Trajectory (17 engravings), in the center of Havana's graphics, inside the Amelia Peláez gallery, in 2013. This exhibition was for reason for twenty years of artistic work. Other relevant exhibitions have been in Spain at Casa del Arte, Galicia. Also in countries such as Germany, Mexico and the United States, where there are private collections of her work.
I consider myself an artist with important influences in my visual work linked to different trends and styles that vary between the landscape, especially the urban type, to the drawing of my anthropomorphic figure that tends to shape faces and elements of Cuban within the styles expressionists, pop and naive. The use of my strokes and the distortions of the figures, the interpretation of Afro-Cuban-Hispanic legends in order to create my figuration, which is my icon called, El Dandy, locating and misplacing it in ordinary life as a process of my creation.
In my workshop, I carry out a social activity, which is located at my home, in which it hosted gatherings that addressed extensive conversations on the issues and concerns about the problems of art, but rather the exhibition of the work of others and the processes of community criticism. All this in his own understanding that legitimizes his phrase "As long as there is life, there is art."
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