Published in conjunction with the March 2002 exhibition at the Bellevue Art Museum, this volume presents color reproductions of about 60 of Alfredo Arreguin's paintings drawn from local, national and international collections. They depict the flora and fauna of the Latin-American rain forest or the Pacific Northwest, individuals who have worked for the social concerns important to the artist, and Madonnas that express a sense of connection between nature and human behavior. The text by Lauro Flores (Spanish, Portuguese and American Ethnic Studies, U. of Washington), presented in both Spanish and English, discusses some of his background and work. The book contains several b&amp;w photographs of the artist. Oversize: 9.25x12.25

Alfredo Arreguin: Patterns of Dreams and Nature/Disenos, Suenos Y Naturaleza (Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists) (English and Spanish Edition)

Arts & Photography

Flores, Lauro

Arreguin, Alfredo

Individual Artists

Univ of Washington Pr

Born in Mexico in 1935 and a resident of Washington State for nearly five decades, Alfredo Arreguín has long been recognized as a major force in pattern painting. His canvases are tapestries that mingle diverse and interpenetrating influences and images: the traditional crafts of his native Michoacán; the lush rainforests of his homeland and of the Pacific Northwest; Japanese ukiyo-e prints; sacred and endangered animals; gods and and totemic figures; icons like Frida Kahlo and César Chávez; and motifs including masks, eyes, and abstractly patterned tiles. But Arreguin’s paintings, for all the apparent flatness of their surfaces, conceal an astonishing depth of perspective. The basis of their composition is a grid of colorful patterns applied to superimposed planes, and below the surface of each completed painting are many others, transformed by the artist’s strategic occlusions and erasures. The result is an exuberant, phosphorescent visual interplay in which images combine to form other images, yielding a potent narrative power and pointing up the profound, ambiguous symbiosis between human beings and nature, fiction and reality, and the natural and supernatural worlds. Lauro Flores reveals Alfredo Arreguin as "a genuinely American painter, in the real, hemispheric sense of this term" - an artist of magic, mystery, and revelation whose place in the history of North American art has already been secured. Twenty-three new paintings are included in the second edition of this highly regarded book first published in 2002.

Alfredo Arreguin: Patterns of Dreams and Nature / Disenos, Suenos y Naturaleza, Second Edition (Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists (Paperback))

History & Criticism

University of Washington Press

“Through his painting over the decades, AlfredoArreguín has built a large and supportive family. He has been consistent and persistent in his practice and in his loving and generous personality. His art touches so many so deeply. This astonishing book is a testament to the depth of affection and respect Alfredo enjoys and deserves”—Ed Marquand of Lucia|Marquand Books

Alfredo Arreguin's World of Wonders: Critical Perspectives

Cave Moon Press

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