Alejandro Rubio’s paintings are intended to create a world of their own, in which imagination, observation, and interpretation collide to address the landscape that surrounds him. These images are never realistic. A native of Uruguay, based in the Bay Area since 2001, Rubio carries with him the painterly qualities inherent to his origin as an indirect member of the Constructivist school initiated by the great Uruguayan master Joaquin Torres Garcia. Incredibly flat areas are constructed combining the illusion of perspective with a purely abstract approach to painting, thus creating an optical effect of clear impact.
“I imagine a connection between the fractured land and the lives of the people who inhabit it, and from this I draw my inspiration.”
Education
1992 – 1993 Graphic Design, Imagine Design Center Montevideo, Uruguay.
1982 – 1988 Painting and Drawing, with artist Guillermo Fernández Montevideo, Uruguay.
1983 – 1985 Studies in Art History, Universidad de la República Montevideo, Uruguay.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 The Green Man and Other Tales, Pence Gallery, Davis, Ca.
2023 New Work, Sin Título Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.
2020 Twenty Years Forward, Pence Gallery, Davis, Ca.
2012 Flatscapes – Gallery 625, Woodland, Ca.
2011 I Live on an Island – Pence Gallery, Davis, Ca.
2008 Faraway Places – SFMoma Artists Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.
2008 No Place in Particular, Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, Ca.
2007 New and Recent Work, Bistro 33, Davis, Ca.
2006 New Work, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, Ca.
2004 Paintings, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, Ca.
1995 Paintings, Del Notariado Art Space, Montevideo, Uruguay.
1991 Works on Paper, Pub El Cafetin Montevideo, Uruguay.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 The De Young Open, De Young Museum, San Francisco.
2019 Hispanic Heritage Month- SFMoma Artists Gallery, San Francisco.
2006-12 Crocker Museum Auction, Sacramento, California
2004 Group Show – John Natsoulas Gallery Davis , California.
2002 Community Hang Up – Pence Gallery Davis , California.
1999 First Biennial of New Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Montevideo, Uruguay.
1994 National Emerging Artists Show, Montevideo City Hall Montevideo, Uruguay.
Distinctions
2009 Painting Award, City of Davis annual Juried Exhibition
2004 Selected as one of the 130 artists participating in the Hearts in San Francisco Project
Collections
Represented in the Crocker Museum Permanent Collection.