Lionel Cruet (born 1989 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an audiovisual and geopolitical artist whose work is focused on intimate relationships with the environment.[1][2][3][4]
Early life and education
editLionel Cruet was born in 1989 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received a Bachelor in Fine Arts from La Escuela de Artes Plásticas Puerto Rico and a Master in Fine Arts from The City College of New York, and a Masters in Education from the College of Saint Rose.[5][6][7]
Career and art
editLionel Cruet's artworks expresses ideas of nature and its threats due to global warming, pollution, climate change and colonization.[8][9] His art got scholarly acknowledgment as it addresses hurricanes and the environment globally and in Puerto Rico[10][11] Other scholarly acknowledgment include the aspects of patterns in art.[12][verification needed]
He exhibited his first individual exhibition in Puerto Rico, "Lionel Cruet: Rhetoric of an uncertain future"[13]
Through drawings and animations of sea turtles, sea crabs, the artist depicts a transmedia ecosystem of creatures. A key component of the artist's approach to the natural environment is the use of digital media video projections and sound.[14]
Previous exhibitions include Lionel Cruet: In Between, Real and Digital at the Bronx River Art Center[15] where traditional elements like unfinished canvas are merged with video projections that depict water and other natural occurrences in Cruet's interactive installations. Interactions between the actual world and the virtual world exceed their respective borders. Between and within at the EFA Project Space Program,[16] Eco Urgency: Now or Never, Wave Hill[17] and[18] Seen and Heard, Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York.[19]
Awards and recognition
editFollowing are a few notable awards and recognition to mention.
- Juan Downey Audiovisual Award winner[13]
- Received fellowship for the Socrates Sculpture Park in New York City[13]
- Selected as fellow of The Laundromat Project[13]
- US Latinx Art Forum, grant recipient[20]
- Selected as participant at ICA Institute of Contemporary Art Miami[21]
References
edit- ^ "Lionel Cruet". Eastern Connecticut State University. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
- ^ Bishop, Jacqueline (2022-10-07). Patchwork: Essays & Interviews on Caribbean Visual Culture. Intellect Books. ISBN 978-1-78938-648-6.
- ^ "Lionel Cruet's Uncertain Futures, Certain Beauty". The Latinx Project at NYU. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
- ^ Garofalo, Giovanna (2020-08-26). "Lionel Cruet Explores Ecological Spaces With Latest NYC Exhibit". The Weekly Journal. San Juan: El Vocero. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
- ^ Romero, Ivette (2022-03-17). "Climate change in the work of artist Lionel Cruet". Repeating Islands. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
- ^ "Lionel Cruet (2015)". Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Ithaca, New York. 2015. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
- ^ "Lionel Cruet | San Juan, Puerto Rico and New York, New York | "INTANGIBLE SITES" | Immersive Audiovisual Installation". Paseo Project. Taos, New Mexico: Paseo del Pueblo Sur. 2016. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
- ^ Flores, Ana Lucia Londono (2021-02-26). "Seascape Poetics: a virtual exhibition". The Concordian. Montreal. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
- ^ Potts Aguirre, Rebecca (2022-03-27). "Episode 89: Lionel Cruet: Rhetorics of an Uncertain Future". Teaching Artist Podcast. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
- ^ Pérez Martínez, Bettina (2020-12-23). Climate Change and Hurricanes: An Ecocritical and Decolonial Analysis of the Work of Puerto Rican Visual Artists Frances Gallardo and Lionel Cruet (masters thesis). Concordia University.
- ^ Rivera-Santana, Carlos (2020-05-03). "Aesthetics of disaster as decolonial aesthetics: making sense of the effects of Hurricane María through Puerto Rican contemporary art". Cultural Studies. 34 (3): 341–362. doi:10.1080/09502386.2019.1607519. ISSN 0950-2386. S2CID 156005109.
- ^ "With Pleasure". Yale University Press. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
- ^ a b c d InterNewsService (2021-10-14). "Artista puertorriqueño presenta su primera exposición individual en la Isla" [Puerto Rican artist presents his first individual exhibition on the Island]. El Vocero de Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-21.
- ^ "Lionel Cruet's Uncertain Futures, Certain Beauty". The Latinx Project at NYU. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
- ^ "Bronx River Art Center :: Gallery :: Lionel Cruet: In Between Real and Digital". www.bronxriverart.org. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
- ^ "between and within". EFA Project Space. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
- ^ TELEMUNDO 47 • •, Por. "NYC ofrece diferentes eventos para celebrar el Mes de la Herencia Hispana". Telemundo New York (47) (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Eco-Urgency: Now or Never". Wave Hill. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
- ^ "Seen and Heard: An Active Commemoration of Women's Suffrage". Everson Museum of Art. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
- ^ Solomon, Maximilíano Durón, Claire Selvin, Tessa; Durón, Maximilíano; Selvin, Claire; Solomon, Tessa (2020-12-07). "ARTnews in Brief: Alison Jacques Gallery Now Represents Carol Rhodes—and More from December 11, 2020". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Binlot, Ann (2020-09-02). "Creator Series: Lionel Cruet". Atoms.com. Retrieved 2022-11-21.