Veronica Ruiz de Velasco
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Veronica Ruiz de Velasco (born in 1968 in México D.F.) is a neo-figurative
painter
of Mexican
origin living in the United States. She was a disciple
of Teodulo Romulo, Rufino Tamayo
, Jean Dubuffet
, and Gilberto Aceves Navarro
.
Juana Veronica Ruiz de Velasco Zenteno was born in the Spanish Hospital of the District Federal of Mexico to Susana Zenteno de Ruiz de Velasco and Pedro Thomas Ruiz de Velasco
. Ruiz de Velasco was the fifteenth child of eighteen brothers and sisters, and was raised as a Catholic in Lomas de Chapultepec
; she attended elementary school at Buckingham Institute. At the age of 11, she was sent to Nauvoo, Illinois
to study at Saint Mary's Academy. Age 13, she returned home to Mexico
and studied at the Lyceé Franco-Mexicain. At the age of 16, she again left home to study in London, England with her two sisters, at the Belair School. During this time she attempted to start a modeling
career and was featured in several magazines, including Vogue
. Four years later, she returned home, happily.
In 1983, Ruiz de Velasco was accepted to take art courses at La Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes La Esmeralda in Mexico City
, whose past students included Diego Rivera
, Francisco Zúñiga
, Frida Kahlo
, Rufino Tamayo
, and Gilberto Aceves Navarro. In 1984, the curator
of the Gallery
of Lourdes Chumacero in Mexico exhibited her work. This was a springboard into the Mexican Art community, as it was attended by many leading painters such as Teodulo Romulo, Thomas Parra, and Gilberto Aceves Navarro. Romulo offered Ruiz de Velasco lessons on his technique.http://www.veroart.com/_html/zoomify.html?width=864&height=618&name=publicity/Lifestyle3
In 1984, Ruiz de Velasco went to Paris, France, to discuss art technique with Jean Dubuffet
. In 1985, Rufino Tamayo
asked Ruiz de Velasco to come to his studio to take some private lessons with him. Tamayo commented that Ruiz de Velasco's art had "an excellent Color". Tamayo gave lessons to another prominent living Mexican Artist, Francisco Toledo
, his godson, who was also influenced by Jean Dubuffet
. http://www.oaxacainfo.com/oaxaca/2-artists.htm
1985–88, Ruiz de Velasco took several courses at the Antigua Academia de San Carlos (Old San Carlos Academy) in Mexico City while taking private lessons from Gilberto Aceves Navarro: she considers him as her most important teacher. Several famous Mexican painters have attended the Antigua Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City such as Diego Rivera
, José Clemente Orozco
, David Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo
, Francisco Hersúa, and Manuel Felguérez. http://www.artesvisuales.unam.mx/005historia.htm
In 1985, Ruiz de Velasco held an exhibition at the Gallery
of the Loteria National of Mexico
. In 1986 she held an individual exhibition in the Gallery of the Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City
. In 1987 she was the youngest artist to exhibit at the Museo de Arte Moderno
(national Museum of Modern Art) in Mexico. The exhibition was an homage to Andrew Lloyd Webber
and had reference pieces such as Cats
, Jesus Christ Superstar
, Evita, Starlight Express
, and the Phantom of the Opera
. The Museo de Arte Moderno published their twenty five year celebration book and included Ruiz de Velasco as one of Mexico's leading artists.
In 1989, Ruiz de Velasco painted a mural
in the American British Cowdray Medical Center in Mexico D.F.. This mural took almost a year to complete. The inauguration of the mural was a national event in Mexico, unveiled by the U.S. Ambassador in Mexico, Charles Pilliod.
http://www.veroart.com/_html/zoomify.html?width=864&height=618&name=publicity/Lifestyle2 Prince Charles of Wales was also present and congratulated Ruiz de Velasco on the donation of her time and effort.http://www.veroart.com/_html/zoomify.html?width=864&height=618&name=publicity/Lifestyle2
In 1991, Ruiz de Velasco created a painting for the Playboy
Collection in Chicago, Illinois.http://www.veroart.com/_html/zoomify.html?width=864&height=618&name=publicity/Lifestyle2 She was then asked by the curator
, Jack Bolton, of the Rockefeller Collection in New York
to create a piece for their collection.http://www.veroart.com/_html/zoomify.html?width=864&height=618&name=publicity/Lifestyle2 In 1994, Goodyear Corporation
in Akron, Ohio
held an exhibition of Ruiz de Velasco's artwork in their private executive gallery
. In 1995, Coronado S.A. de C.V. held an exhibition of Ruiz de Velasco's artwork in their gallery in México, D.F.
In 1996, Ruiz de Velasco created a portrait for President Bill Clinton
http://www.veroart.com/_html/zoomify.html?width=864&height=618&name=art/1200DPI/President_Clinton. President Bill Clinton
and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton sent a letter of appreciation for this portrait. http://www.veroart.com/_html/zoomify.html?width=864&height=618&name=publicity/Lifestyle2
In the summer of 1995, Ruiz de Velasco was vacationing for two weeks with her father in Cozumel
and met her future husband. In July, 1996, she married him at the Igelsias San Miguel on the Isla de Cozumel
. In August her father died at the age of 81. In September she returned to Dallas with her husband.
The January 1997 edition of the Lifestyle Magazine contained a biography of Ruiz de Velasco's Career. In February the Anasazi Gallery in Dallas held a solo exhibition for Ruiz de Velasco. In April, Lucent Technologies
held an exhibition of her work in their private executive gallery
in Mesquite, Texas
. In June, AT&T
held an exhibition in their private executive gallery in Las Colinas, Texas. In October, Nordstrom
of the Gallería in Dallas promoted Ruiz de Velasco's oil paintings throughout their store in honor of Hispanic
Heritage Month. Ruiz de Velasco signed several hundred autographs. Nordstrom
of the Gallería also held a fashion show with their top clothing lines with Ruiz de Velasco's art images used as a photographic backdrop.
In 1997, Mrs Nancy Hamon asked Ruiz de Velasco to create a mural for the Nancy and Jake L. Hamon Biomedical Research Building at the Southwest Medical Center
in Dallas. The mural was 3 meters by 4 meters. It was inaugurated by Nancy Hamon and the Director of the Southwest Medical Center
, Dr. Kern Wildenthall.
In April 1999, Ruiz de Velasco held an exhibition at the Florence Art Gallery in Dallas, Texas
. http://www.lisafittipaldi.com/press_releases.htm In July 1999, the Beaux Art at the Dallas Museum of Art
chose Ruiz de Velasco to provide several of her paintings to auction off for charity. In October, she held an individual exhibition at the Irving Art Center (Museum) in Irving, Texas
. http://web.archive.org/web/20060413110940/http://www.geocities.com/artistsc/links/archive.html In April 2000, Ruiz de Velasco held an exhibition at the Mission Gallery in Highland Park, Texas
. In 2003, she created two murals and donated them to the Beaty Early Childhood School in Plano, Texas
. In 2005 she painted an airplane hung from the ceiling of the new International Terminal at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport
. In 2007, she painted the front cover of the September/October 2007 edition of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
.
In 2009, Veronica Ruiz de Velasco is one of five Mexican artists selected to create a painting representing Mexico at the 2010 FIFA World Cup
in South Africa.
Neo-figurative
Neo-figurative art describes an expressionist revival in modern form of figurative art. The term neo and figurative emerged in the 1960s in Mexico and Spain to represent a new form of figurative art.-Neo-figurative artists:...
painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
of Mexican
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....
origin living in the United States. She was a disciple
Apprenticeship
Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a skill. Apprentices or protégés build their careers from apprenticeships...
of Teodulo Romulo, Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences....
, Jean Dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making.-Life and work:Dubuffet was...
, and Gilberto Aceves Navarro
Gilberto Aceves Navarro
Gilberto Horacio Aceves Navarro is a Mexican painter.- Biography :Aceves studied painting at "La Esmeralda" under Enrique Assad, Ignacio Aguirre and Carlos Orozco Romero after 1950...
.
Early life
Pedro Thomas Ruiz de Velasco
Pedro Thomas Ruiz de Velasco was a Mexican businessman and the family holder of several historical documents from Mexico including the original 1821 Act of Independence of Mexico....
. Ruiz de Velasco was the fifteenth child of eighteen brothers and sisters, and was raised as a Catholic in Lomas de Chapultepec
Miguel Hidalgo, D.F.
Miguel Hidalgo is one of the 16 delegaciones into which Mexico's Federal District is divided. The borough includes some of the most affluent parts of Mexico City, such as Lomas de Chapultepec and Polanco. Its population at the 2010 census was 372,889 inhabitants, and it lies at an elevation of...
; she attended elementary school at Buckingham Institute. At the age of 11, she was sent to Nauvoo, Illinois
Nauvoo, Illinois
Nauvoo is a small city in Hancock County, Illinois, United States. Although the population was just 1,063 at the 2000 census, and despite being difficult to reach due to its location in a remote corner of Illinois, Nauvoo attracts large numbers of visitors for its historic importance and its...
to study at Saint Mary's Academy. Age 13, she returned home to Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
and studied at the Lyceé Franco-Mexicain. At the age of 16, she again left home to study in London, England with her two sisters, at the Belair School. During this time she attempted to start a modeling
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
career and was featured in several magazines, including Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
. Four years later, she returned home, happily.
Education
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
, whose past students included Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo . His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in...
, Francisco Zúñiga
Francisco Zúñiga
thumbJosé Jesús Francisco Zúñiga Chavarría was a Costa Rican and Mexican artist, known both for his painting and his sculpture...
, Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo de Rivera was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán, and perhaps best known for her self-portraits....
, Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences....
, and Gilberto Aceves Navarro. In 1984, the curator
Curator
A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
of the Gallery
Art gallery
An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...
of Lourdes Chumacero in Mexico exhibited her work. This was a springboard into the Mexican Art community, as it was attended by many leading painters such as Teodulo Romulo, Thomas Parra, and Gilberto Aceves Navarro. Romulo offered Ruiz de Velasco lessons on his technique.http://www.veroart.com/_html/zoomify.html?width=864&height=618&name=publicity/Lifestyle3
In 1984, Ruiz de Velasco went to Paris, France, to discuss art technique with Jean Dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making.-Life and work:Dubuffet was...
. In 1985, Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences....
asked Ruiz de Velasco to come to his studio to take some private lessons with him. Tamayo commented that Ruiz de Velasco's art had "an excellent Color". Tamayo gave lessons to another prominent living Mexican Artist, Francisco Toledo
Francisco Toledo
Francisco Benjamín López Toledo is a Mexican graphic artist. He studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Oaxaca and the Centro Superior de Artes Aplicadas del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico, where he studied graphic arts with Guillermo Silva Santamaria...
, his godson, who was also influenced by Jean Dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making.-Life and work:Dubuffet was...
. http://www.oaxacainfo.com/oaxaca/2-artists.htm
1985–88, Ruiz de Velasco took several courses at the Antigua Academia de San Carlos (Old San Carlos Academy) in Mexico City while taking private lessons from Gilberto Aceves Navarro: she considers him as her most important teacher. Several famous Mexican painters have attended the Antigua Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City such as Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo . His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in...
, José Clemente Orozco
José Clemente Orozco
José Clemente Orozco was a Mexican social realist painter, who specialized in bold murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others...
, David Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences....
, Francisco Hersúa, and Manuel Felguérez. http://www.artesvisuales.unam.mx/005historia.htm
Exhibitions in Mexico
Art gallery
An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...
of the Loteria National of Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
. In 1986 she held an individual exhibition in the Gallery of the Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
. In 1987 she was the youngest artist to exhibit at the Museo de Arte Moderno
Museo de Arte Moderno
The Museo de Arte Moderno or Museum of Modern Art is located in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Mexico. The museum is part of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes and prepares exhibitions of national and international contemporary artists...
(national Museum of Modern Art) in Mexico. The exhibition was an homage to Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
and had reference pieces such as Cats
Cats (musical)
Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot...
, Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started off as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971...
, Evita, Starlight Express
Starlight Express
Starlight Express is a rock musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber , Richard Stilgoe and Arlene Phillips , with later revisions by Don Black and David Yazbek . The story follows a child's dream in which his toy train set comes to life; famously the actors perform wearing roller skates...
, and the Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux.The music was composed by Lloyd Webber, and most lyrics were written by Charles Hart, with additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. Alan Jay Lerner was an early collaborator,...
. The Museo de Arte Moderno published their twenty five year celebration book and included Ruiz de Velasco as one of Mexico's leading artists.
In 1989, Ruiz de Velasco painted a mural
Mural
A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface. A particularly distinguishing characteristic of mural painting is that the architectural elements of the given space are harmoniously incorporated into the picture.-History:Murals of...
in the American British Cowdray Medical Center in Mexico D.F.. This mural took almost a year to complete. The inauguration of the mural was a national event in Mexico, unveiled by the U.S. Ambassador in Mexico, Charles Pilliod.
http://www.veroart.com/_html/zoomify.html?width=864&height=618&name=publicity/Lifestyle2 Prince Charles of Wales was also present and congratulated Ruiz de Velasco on the donation of her time and effort.http://www.veroart.com/_html/zoomify.html?width=864&height=618&name=publicity/Lifestyle2
In 1991, Ruiz de Velasco created a painting for the Playboy
Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
Collection in Chicago, Illinois.http://www.veroart.com/_html/zoomify.html?width=864&height=618&name=publicity/Lifestyle2 She was then asked by the curator
Curator
A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
, Jack Bolton, of the Rockefeller Collection in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
to create a piece for their collection.http://www.veroart.com/_html/zoomify.html?width=864&height=618&name=publicity/Lifestyle2 In 1994, Goodyear Corporation
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling. Goodyear manufactures tires for automobiles, commercial trucks, light trucks, SUVs, race cars, airplanes, farm equipment and heavy earth-mover machinery....
in Akron, Ohio
Akron, Ohio
Akron , is the fifth largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County. It is located in the Great Lakes region approximately south of Lake Erie along the Little Cuyahoga River. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 199,110. The Akron Metropolitan...
held an exhibition of Ruiz de Velasco's artwork in their private executive gallery
Art gallery
An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...
. In 1995, Coronado S.A. de C.V. held an exhibition of Ruiz de Velasco's artwork in their gallery in México, D.F.
In 1996, Ruiz de Velasco created a portrait for President Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
http://www.veroart.com/_html/zoomify.html?width=864&height=618&name=art/1200DPI/President_Clinton. President Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton sent a letter of appreciation for this portrait. http://www.veroart.com/_html/zoomify.html?width=864&height=618&name=publicity/Lifestyle2
Career in the United States of America
Cozumel
Cozumel is an island in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, opposite Playa del Carmen, and close to the Yucatan Channel. Cozumel is one of the ten municipalities of the state of Quintana Roo...
and met her future husband. In July, 1996, she married him at the Igelsias San Miguel on the Isla de Cozumel
Cozumel
Cozumel is an island in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, opposite Playa del Carmen, and close to the Yucatan Channel. Cozumel is one of the ten municipalities of the state of Quintana Roo...
. In August her father died at the age of 81. In September she returned to Dallas with her husband.
The January 1997 edition of the Lifestyle Magazine contained a biography of Ruiz de Velasco's Career. In February the Anasazi Gallery in Dallas held a solo exhibition for Ruiz de Velasco. In April, Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies
Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc., originally Lucent Technologies, Inc. is a French-owned technology company composed of what was formerly AT&T Technologies, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs...
held an exhibition of her work in their private executive gallery
Art gallery
An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...
in Mesquite, Texas
Mesquite, Texas
Mesquite is a city located within the Dallas/Ft.Worth area of Texas. As of the 2010 US Census, the population was 139,824.-History:The city was founded May 22, 1873, by a Texas & Pacific Railway engineer who purchased land along the Texas & Pacific line outside of Dallas...
. In June, AT&T
AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...
held an exhibition in their private executive gallery in Las Colinas, Texas. In October, Nordstrom
Nordstrom
Nordstrom, Inc. is an upscale department store chain in the United States, founded by John W. Nordstrom and Carl F. Wallin. Initially a shoe retailer, the company today also sells clothing, accessories, handbags, jewelry, cosmetics, fragrances, and in some locations, home furnishings...
of the Gallería in Dallas promoted Ruiz de Velasco's oil paintings throughout their store in honor of Hispanic
Hispanic
Hispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ...
Heritage Month. Ruiz de Velasco signed several hundred autographs. Nordstrom
Nordstrom
Nordstrom, Inc. is an upscale department store chain in the United States, founded by John W. Nordstrom and Carl F. Wallin. Initially a shoe retailer, the company today also sells clothing, accessories, handbags, jewelry, cosmetics, fragrances, and in some locations, home furnishings...
of the Gallería also held a fashion show with their top clothing lines with Ruiz de Velasco's art images used as a photographic backdrop.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is one of the biomedical research institutions of the University of Texas System, incorporating three degree-granting institutions, four affiliated hospitals, including Parkland Memorial, the teaching hospital, and biomedical research...
in Dallas. The mural was 3 meters by 4 meters. It was inaugurated by Nancy Hamon and the Director of the Southwest Medical Center
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is one of the biomedical research institutions of the University of Texas System, incorporating three degree-granting institutions, four affiliated hospitals, including Parkland Memorial, the teaching hospital, and biomedical research...
, Dr. Kern Wildenthall.
In April 1999, Ruiz de Velasco held an exhibition at the Florence Art Gallery in Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
. http://www.lisafittipaldi.com/press_releases.htm In July 1999, the Beaux Art at the Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas Museum of Art
The Dallas Museum of Art is a major art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, USA, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. In 1984, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Arts District, Dallas, Texas...
chose Ruiz de Velasco to provide several of her paintings to auction off for charity. In October, she held an individual exhibition at the Irving Art Center (Museum) in Irving, Texas
Irving, Texas
Irving is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city population was 216,290. Irving is within the Dallas–Plano–Irving metropolitan division of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, designated...
. http://web.archive.org/web/20060413110940/http://www.geocities.com/artistsc/links/archive.html In April 2000, Ruiz de Velasco held an exhibition at the Mission Gallery in Highland Park, Texas
Highland Park, Texas
Highland Park is a town in central Dallas County, Texas, United States. The population was 8,842 at the 2000 census. Located between the Dallas North Tollway and U.S. Route 75 , four miles north of downtown Dallas....
. In 2003, she created two murals and donated them to the Beaty Early Childhood School in Plano, Texas
Plano, Texas
Plano is a city in the state of Texas, located mostly within Collin County. The city's population was 259,841 at the 2010 census, making it the ninth-largest city in Texas and the 71st most populous city in the United States. Plano is located within the metropolitan area commonly referred to as...
. In 2005 she painted an airplane hung from the ceiling of the new International Terminal at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is located between the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, and is the busiest airport in the U.S. state of Texas...
. In 2007, she painted the front cover of the September/October 2007 edition of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a nontechnical online magazine that covers global security and public policy issues, especially related to the dangers posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction...
.
In 2009, Veronica Ruiz de Velasco is one of five Mexican artists selected to create a painting representing Mexico at the 2010 FIFA World Cup
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...
in South Africa.
Selected exhibitions
- Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City, Mexico, January, 1986
- Museo de Arte ModernoMuseo de Arte ModernoThe Museo de Arte Moderno or Museum of Modern Art is located in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Mexico. The museum is part of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes and prepares exhibitions of national and international contemporary artists...
, México, D.F., November, 1986 - ABC Hospital, México, D.F., 1989
- Anasazi Gallery – Dallas, Texas, 1997
- NordstromNordstromNordstrom, Inc. is an upscale department store chain in the United States, founded by John W. Nordstrom and Carl F. Wallin. Initially a shoe retailer, the company today also sells clothing, accessories, handbags, jewelry, cosmetics, fragrances, and in some locations, home furnishings...
– Exhibition at the Galleria, Dallas, Texas, 1998 - Dallas Museum of ArtDallas Museum of ArtThe Dallas Museum of Art is a major art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, USA, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. In 1984, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Arts District, Dallas, Texas...
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See also
- Jean DubuffetJean DubuffetJean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making.-Life and work:Dubuffet was...
- Rufino TamayoRufino TamayoRufino Tamayo was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences....
- Museo de Arte ModernoMuseo de Arte ModernoThe Museo de Arte Moderno or Museum of Modern Art is located in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Mexico. The museum is part of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes and prepares exhibitions of national and international contemporary artists...
- Francisco ToledoFrancisco ToledoFrancisco Benjamín López Toledo is a Mexican graphic artist. He studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Oaxaca and the Centro Superior de Artes Aplicadas del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico, where he studied graphic arts with Guillermo Silva Santamaria...
- Dallas Museum of ArtDallas Museum of ArtThe Dallas Museum of Art is a major art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, USA, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. In 1984, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Arts District, Dallas, Texas...
Book
- Flores Olea, Victor; El Museu de Arte moderno 25 Anos de Vida Artistica. (1989)
- Diez Años de la Galería Metropolitan. (1989)
Magazines
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, Volume 63, Number 5, September/October 2007, Front Cover.
- Nelson, Amanda, “Southwest on the Coast”, Caller-Times, March 28, 2004.
- Rain, Eden; “A Work of Art”, Lifestyle Magazine, January 1997, Page 10.
- Rain, Eden; “A Work of Art”, Lifestyle Magazine, January 1997, Page 11.
- Rain, Eden; “A Work of Art”, Lifestyle Magazine, January 1997, Page 12.
- Hernandez Lara, Leopoldo; “Veronica Ruiz de Velasco – Expresión Su Limite”, Vista – Revista de Arte, February, 1998. (Front Cover)
- Hernandez Lara, Leopoldo; “Veronica Ruiz de Velasco – Expresión Su Limite”, Vista – Revista de Arte, February, 1998. (Page 13)
- Hernandez Lara, Leopoldo; “Veronica Ruiz de Velasco – Expresión Su Limite”, Vista – Revista de Arte, February, 1998. (Page 14)
- Hernandez Lara, Leopoldo; “Veronica Ruiz de Velasco – Expresión Su Limite”, Vista – Revista de Arte, February, 1998. (Page 15)
- Hernandez Lara, Leopoldo; “Veronica Ruiz de Velasco – Expresión Su Limite”, Vista – Revista de Arte, February, 1998. (Page 16)
- Neuvillate, Alfonso de; "La Voluntad de ser o la nina extraida de un cuento", Museo de Arte Moderno, September 26, 1986.
- Neuvillate, Alfonso de; "Veronica Ruiz de Velasco – Se Realiza en la Danza", Casa ye Gente, October, 1986.
- Bucher, Kristin; "Best of Texas", Southwest Art Magazine, April 1999.
Letters
- Estrada, Gerardo; General Director of Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, November 2nd, 1996.
- Centeno Banuelos, Manuel; Curator of Museo de Arte Moderno, November 4th, 1996.
Newspapers
- Shown, John; "Veronica Put Theater on Canvas", New York Times, October, 1986.
- "La fusión de la danza y la pintura han creado la obra artística de Verónica Ruiz de Velasco", Excelsior, October, 1986.
- Mullen, Chris, "Painting brightens Hamon Tower", Dallas Morning News, 1997.
- Carmen Eroles, Mari; "Un nuevo estilo pictórico en Dallas", La Fuenta, February, 1997. (Dallas, Texas)
- "Verónica Ruiz de Velasco exhibe su obra en Dallas, Texas", El Heraldo, May 14, 1997. (Mexico City)
- "Celebracion", La Fuenta. (Dallas, Texas)
- "Nordstrom exhibe óbra pictoria de Veronica Ruiz de Velasco ", La Fuenta. (Dallas, Texas)
- Koller, Dan; "Irving Students tour Exhibit with Painter", Dallas Morning News, 1999. (Dallas,Texas)
Newspapers in Mexico, D.F.
- Bergaras, Guadalope; "Click..!", Ovaciones, August, 1986.
- Gay, Piri; El Heraldo de Mexico, August, 1986.
- Nicholas Sanchez, Osorio; "Seres extraterrestres inspiraron los Fantasmas de otono de Verónica Ruiz de Velasco", Novedades, July, 1986.
- Nicholas Sanchez, Osorio; "Veronica Ruiz de Velasco es Ella Misma una Pintura", Novedades, July, 1986.
- Gonzalez Montes, Fidencio; "Pinturas Fantasmagóricas – Veronica R. de Velasco y su Obra en la Lotería Nacional, El Nacional, March, 1986.
- Morales, Lulu; "Los Fantasmas de Otono de Verónica Ruiz de Velasco", El Sol de Mexico, March, 1986.
- Gonzalez Montes, Fidencio; "Loteria Nacional", El Nacional, March, 1986.
- "Verónica Ruiz Expone su Obra en la Lotería", Cine Mundial, March, 1986.
- Gay, Piri; "Veronica Ruiz de Velasco Inaugura hoy una Exposición", Excelsior, October, 1986.
- De Miguel, Fatima; "Veronica Ruiz de Velasco y sus Fantasmas de Otono", El Sol de Mexico, September 23, 1986.
- "Veronica Ruiz de Velasco Presento Su Estupenda Muestra "Los Fantasmas del Otono"", El Univerasal, October 5, 1986.
- "Verónica Ruiz de Velasco Expone", Excelsior, October 4, 1986.
- "Nusetro Museos", Excelsior, October, 1986.
- Atamors, Noemi; "El Embajador Pilliod Inaugurará el Mural de Verónica Ruiz de Velasco", El Universal, Tuesday, March 28, 1989.
- "Aeropuerto International Benito Juarez", Museus y Galerías, February, 1989.
- Georgina Ortiz, Claudia; "Fantasmas de Otono", Gente's del Jetset, October, 1986.
- Zamorano, Angelia; "Verónica Ruiz de Velasco y sus Sublimes Expresiones Artísticas", Noviedades, 1986.
- "Homenaje Pictórico de Verónica Ruiz de Velasco a Lloyd Webber", Excelsior, October 18, 1986.
- "Casi Concluido el Primer Mural de Medicina Moderna", La Prensa, January 19, 1989.
- Gay, Piri; "En la Galería del Aeropuerto Benito Juárez Expondrá Veronica Ruiz de Velasco", El Heraldo de Mexico, January 22, 1986.
- Torres Vargas, Eliseo; "Veronica Ruiz de Velasco Expone su Obra mas Reciente en el Aeropuerto Internacional", Novedades, January 22, 1989.
- Gay, Piri; "Veronica Ruiz de Velasco donó un mural al Hospital ABC", El Universal, April 1, 1989.
External links
- Veronica Ruiz de Velasco – Official Website
- Irving Art Center
- Gilberto Aceves Navarro
- Contemporary Oaxaca Artists
- Lycée Franco-Mexicain
- Escuela Nacional de Pintura y Escultura La Esmeralda
- Academia de San Carlos - Escuela National de Artes Plasticas
- Galería Lourdes Chumacero
- Palacio de Bellas Artes
- Escuela Nacional de Pintura y Escultura La Esmeralda - Alumni