Inside the studio
This is a multi- and interdisciplinary studio. Specialties include painting, sculpture, engraving, illustration, graphic design, mosaic, and more. The studio is committed to the creation of fine art work, illustrations for publication, art courses, and the restoration of antiques.
Research work and study, as well as enhancing and maintaining the studio and its assets, are also part of our daily activity.
Located in the vicinity of the historic city of Plasencia (in Extremadura, Spain) the studio also includes the sculpture, restoration and mosaic ateliers.
The studio houses an extensive library for research and documentation that cannot always be found online and is demanded in specialized projects. After some three decades of working with and for books, the studio has purchased, inherited, and accumulated several thousand volumes, publications and documents, some of which date back to the 1500s.
The studio contains also an always growing collection of antique textiles and artifacts, Natural History specimens, and the photo archives. It represents a prime reference source for many projects as well as for instructional purposes. The collection of originals includes extraordinary drawings and illustrations from various artists.
Along with the organic garden, the care and constant improvement of the studio and its contents provides us with plenty of busy time, seven days a week, in a nearly monastic environment.
Restoration of antiques is now a non-profit endeavor that we undertake to help preserve the fantastic art heritage of our local community. A painstaking process, involving much verification, learning of art techniques from the old masters and artisans, as well as modern cleansing, preservation and reintegration methods, is required for this mission. The sculptor's know-how is indispensable when it comes to reconstructing lost parts from these works of art.
Mosaics, a millenary art form, are created in the studio using the same methods as 2,000 years ago. Roman mosaics made again in Hispania with pride.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2013 Painting and Illustration (solo exhibit) Las Claras Municipal Civic Center, Plasencia,
Spain
2011 XXXI Fèdèration Internationale de la Medaille FIDEM Congress, Tampere, Finland
2008 5th International Biennial of Contemporary Medals - Seixal, Portugal
Gallery Artists Show, Medialia-Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York
2004 XXIX FIDEM Congress Exhibition, Seixal
2002 XXVIII FIDEM Congress Exhibition, Monnaie de Paris, France National Mint
"Hands across the Sea", American Medallic Sculpture Association (AMSA)
Museum of Art Medals of Wroclaw, Poland Union Gallery, Warsaw
Salmagundi Club, New York City. Allied Artists of America Award
600 Anniversary of Massacio, "Basis" School of Sculpture, Ein Vered, Israel. Second
Prize
AMSA, "Lyme" School of Sculpture, Old Lyme, Connecticut
AMSA, New York Public Library, New York
XXIV Salón de Otoño, Plasencia, Spain
2001 AMSA, American Numismatic Association Money Museum, Colorado Springs, CO
HUB-Robeson Galleries, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania
2000 AMSA, Queensborough Community College, the City University of New York
XXVII FIDEM Congress Exhibition at the Goethe-Nationalmuseum, Weimar
"Art in Your Hand", Milwaukee County War Memorial, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1999 AMSA, National Sculpture Society, New York
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
American Educator Magazine, American Federation of Teachers AFT, Washington 2010 ~
2017
American Teacher Magazine, AFT, Washington 2012, 2013
Clavileño, Music CD, various artists, CozyTime, Madrid, 2012
Pesca en el río, V. Segret, and other readings (picture books), McGraw-Hill, Columbus OH
2012
Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, Season program & posters, Madison NJ, 2012
David González Plays B. Britten's Nocturnal Op. 70, CD album, DYFSA, Madrid, 2012
Bach Chaconne, CD album, David González, DYFSA, Madrid, 2010
El punto de equilibrio (picture book), Silvia Dubovoy, Everest, Leon, 2009
Federico (picture book), Georgina Lázaro, Lectorum Publications, NJ, 2009
Sergio quiere crecer (picture book), Enrique Pérez Díaz, Sirpus, Barcelona, 2009
50 Años por el libro (illustrated), various authors, Everest, Leon, 2007
El Rey de las octavas (picture book), Emma Romeu, Lectorum Publications, NY, 2007
generación del 27.poemas (illustrated), J. A. García, Everest, Leon, 2007
The Color of Friendship (picture book), Silvia Dubovoy, Everest, Leon, 2006
Platero y yo (illustrated), Juan Ramón Jiménez, Everest, Leon, 2006
Pedrín y la garza (picture book), Hilda Perera, Everest, Leon, 2005
Why Explore? (picture book), Susan Lendroth, Trycicle Press, Berkeley CA, 2005
Cuentos de Apolo (illustrated), Hilda Perera, Lectorum Publications, NY, 2000
SELECTED LITERATURE
5th International Biennial of Contemporary Medals, Câmara Municipal do Seixal, Portugal,
2008
American Medallic Sculpture Association (AMSA) Members Directory, 2007
XXIX FIDEM Camara Municipal do Seixal, 2005
Masaccio 600. "Basis" Sculpture School, Ein Vered / Italian Institute in Israel, 2002
XXIV Salón de Otoño de Pintura, Caja Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain, 2002
Directory of Illustration #17, Serbin Communications, Berkeley CA 2000
AMSA 2000 Exhibition catalog, American Medallic Sculpture Association-Queensborough
Community College/City University of NY, NY, 2000
Svensk Filatelistisk Tidskrift (Organ of the Swedish Philatelic Association) #8 October, Skillingaryd,
Sweden, 1999
PUBLIC PLACES
"Basis" Sculpture School, Ein Vered, Israel
Saint Calixtus School, Plasencia, Spain
Spanish Army Headquarters, High Command PR Office, Madrid
"Yours is undoubtedly a method. But to penetrate in the infinite, it is indispensable an infinity of methods", Blaise Pascal said to Descartes.
