Sea la K para Klemente, 2011, Silkscreen, 22" x 30"

By Miguel Trelles

Artist Bio: Miguel Trelles is a Puerto Rican visual artist who works in the Lower East Side of Manhattan at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center, where he currently serves as co-executive director of Teatro LATEA and is the co-founder, co-producer and head visual arts curator of the Borimix Puerto Rico Fest. Trelles’ chino-latino painting series derives inspiration from classic Chinese painting along with Pre-Columbian and Latin American imagery. On a parallel track to his paintings, the artist’s silk screens honor the Puerto Rican silkscreen tradition of the 2nd half of the 20th Century, their popular content is broadly Latino.