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
Education
The artist at work
Prizes and Awards
Collective Expositions
2024 3 Artistas en la Casa de España San Juan, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, United States
2023 3rd Biennial Asociación de Artistas Plásticos de Puerto Rico Carolina, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
2022 18th Art Biennial of Ponce, Puerto Rico Ponce, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, United States
2021 2nd Biennial Asociación de Artistas Plásticos de Puerto Rico Municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico, United States