Alphabet of Gestures Video, 2018
A 4 minute video about artistic approach and recent paintings. Produced by MCS Photo Space May 2018 at studio in The Fountainhead, Miami FL.
Entries by Lydia Rubio
The Ellies Award
The Ellies Award, October 2018 My upcoming new project is funded by The Ellies, Miami’s visual arts awards, presented by ArtCenter/South Florida. This grant is to be used “To support the creation of a series of large-scale interactive erasable works about the impermanence of our ecological systems affected by pollution and global warming ”
Dislexia Geografica Exhibition
Puerto Rico-Colombia Exhibition at The Clemente Center, 117 Suffolk Street, NY, NY November 2018 Map of Pathways, acrylic on canvas 94 x 64 inches.
Seeking Silence
ArtonCuba Fall 2018, “Seeking Silence” profile of recent work by Hortensia Montero Lydia Rubio (Havana, 1946) is a multidisciplinary artist who has received international recognition and has established herself in the United States since 1960. She has traveled extensively through Europe and Latin America (…). She currently lives in Miami. She has a Master’s in Architecture […]
Harvard Graduate School of Design Magazine, Interview 1994
Non-Traditional Careers
Constellations and Alphabets, Interview by F. Birbragher, 2017
LETRA URBANA Incluido en: Sociedad Edicion: 38 Lydia Rubio: Constellations and Alphabets By Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig Translation by John Schranck [Read online Spanish version here] An alternative proposal to the aesthetics of excess and the visual and verbal turbulence dominating the world: Lydia Rubio’s work stands out for the way it uses words, images and symbols inspired […]
Written on Water Catalog by John Yau, 1995
THE JOURNEY ITSELF IS THE HOME: THE ART OF LYDIA RUBIO I. Lydia Rubio was born in Havana, Cuba, and grew up there during the 1950’s. She has strong memories of her grandmother, who was an artist, and has honored their relationship in the painting, She Painted Landscapes, a dazzling trompe l’oeil work which undercuts its myriad of […]
Identity Papers, 2010
You can read or download the full article at this link about the retrospective of drawing from 1993 – 2010.
Lydia Rubio: Alphabet of Gestures
Article on recent works published in REVIEW: Literature and Art of the Americas. Author: Enrico M Santi
Subjective Atlas of Colombia Exhibition, 2015
La Linea del Ecuador 2015 Map and box Mixed media 30″x 30″x 12″ Exhibited in 2015 in ” Atlas Subjetivo de Colombia ” at the Camara de Comercio, Salitre, Bogota.