Victor Payares – Signs of Time at Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery

Víctor Payares. Stage theory. 77” x 60”. Courtesy of the artist and Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery

March 14 - April 9, 2009

Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery presents “Signs of Time” from emerging artist Victor Payares.

The young artist of Cuban origin, Victor Payares, just 22 years-old, will present his second solo show “Signs of Time” at Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery with 10 recent paintings produced in mixed media on canvas.  After resounding success in his first exhibition “New Paintings,” where half of the works on exhibit were snapped up by collectors, Victor Payares won the favorable criticism of the Miami Herald and Miami New Times, and a host of international curators and collectors, with significant participation in the Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery at contemporary art fairs, such as Circa 08 in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Arteamericas 08 in Miami. Carlos Suarez from the Miami New Times says, “In Victor Payares’ paintings, abstract and figurative elements collide in whimsical, almost hallucinatory ways. Mangled cartoon trees, flaming boxcars, scooters, and pickup trucks pinwheel across a blazing sunflower-yellow field. A spaceship and a skier bubble up in acid green and hot Pepto Bismol-pink swirls. Helicopter gunships battle in a fog inside a room of an old house. A piano made of bricks explodes while a family bleeds on the floor. The people, creatures, and machines in his large-scale canvases seem to defy gravity, or appear on the verge of hurtling off the world’s edge. Black Cloud, the largest work in the show and nearly the size of a garage door, is awash in tarry-black paint, suggesting deep space in which cotton candy nebulas shoot lightning bolts and a toy robot hitches a ride atop a car crumpled like a beer can. The artist’s paintings oscillate with energy and narrative possibility, reflecting a remarkably inventive mind and a world where the laws of physics are twisted beyond belief.” 

The exhibition of Victor Payares will be open to the public on Saturday, March 14, 2009 during “Gallery Walk” until April 9 2009.

Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery

2441 NW 2^nd Ave. Wynwood Art District

Miami Florida 33127

Phone 305 573 1333