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Pedro Velez
  • Home
  • Portfolio
    • Settlers and Mangroves
    • Los Pre Rafaelitas 2020-ongoing
    • Surrender Flags and Crying Handkerchiefs (2014-2018)
    • Voice Work
    • Sun Drenched Disasters 2021
    • Emotional Hurricanes
    • Crying Handkerchief for #JonesActKKK
    • Affirmations
    • Election Cycle Allegory
    • A Protest Bouquet for Rahm Emanuel
    • Private and Social Portraits
    • No Regrets 2014: Michael Wynne / Pedro Vélez
    • What’s the Forecast? What future?
    • The Aging Quail (2003) Gean Moreno and Pedro Vélez at Galería Comercial
    • Fake Exhibitions (1999-2008)
    • Roadkill Born Again
    • Expanded Art Criticism/ Agitprops
  • Contact
  • Links
  • Full CV
© Pedro Velez
Website by OtherPeoplesPixels
  • Archive of Early Work via Blogger (1997-2014)

    Archive of Early Work via Blogger (1997-2014)
  • The Art World pays tribute to Walter

    The Art World pays tribute to Walter
  • Walter Robinson reflects on his portrait at the Whitney Biennial

    Walter Robinson reflects on his portrait at the Whitney Biennial
  • Christine M. Schröder interviews Pedro Vélez for FreeRadioSAIC

    Christine M. Schröder interviews Pedro Vélez for FreeRadioSAIC

    Christine M. Schröder interviews Pedro Vélez for FreeRadioSAIC on the ocassion of Persistence:The Lions' Roar at the Puerto Rican Arts Alliance in Chicago. Curated by Jorge Félix.

    In this interview Vélez talks freely about his role and experiences as a Latino Puerto Rican critic and artist in Chicago from 1997-2013.

  • Catalog : Sun Drenched Disasters

    Catalog : Sun Drenched Disasters
  • Soundtrack for Sun Drenched Disasters

    Soundtrack for Sun Drenched Disasters

    Collaboration piece.

    Concept by Pedro Vélez

    Written and performed by Opera Coquí:

    Yaritza Zayas, Ernesto Busigó, Patricia Vasquez, Christian García, Rafael Lebrón.

  • Dr. Bravo discusses Consequences of the Brain Drain painting (25min mark)

    Dr. Bravo discusses Consequences of the Brain Drain painting (25min mark)
  • 2015- Kate Kilpatrick profiles the Puerto Rican resistance

    2015- Kate Kilpatrick profiles the Puerto Rican resistance
  • Interview with Curator Dianne Brás Feliciano for Visión Doble (2015)

    Interview with Curator Dianne Brás Feliciano for Visión Doble (2015)
  • Abraham Ritchie on the multi practices employed by Vélez

    Abraham Ritchie on the multi practices employed by Vélez
  • Artforum review of Protest Signs (2014)

    Artforum review of Protest Signs (2014)
  • When We Talk About Fictional Characters (and Copyright) Steven Wilf

    When We Talk About Fictional Characters (and Copyright) Steven Wilf

    Abstract

    What do pictures want? Echoing the famous question posed by art historian W.J.T. Mitch- ell, this article interrogates that query within the skein of copyright law. The creation of a fictional character means seeing a possibly singular, inert image as having a past and a fu- ture, a panoply of emotional responses and, significantly, desires. Fictional characters are not copyrightable per se. Rather, protection stems from expression of those characters in copyrightable works. To determine whether fictional characters have reached the threshold of complexity worthy of copyright, courts inquire how well a character has been delineated.
    For nearly a century, copyright has relied upon traditional round character literary analysis which looks at a character’s distinguishable features from the audience’s point of view. Recently, flat protagonist criticism examines whether the character serves as a proper ve- hicle for the author’s story. This article takes another approach—asking what the image is trying to tell us about its own absences, needs, and emotional lacunae. Beyond establishing protection, we need to query what protagonists are unworthy of copyright. I argue that stereotypes should be held to stricter scrutiny as creating insufficiently desiring characters.

  • Heather Warren Crow discusses critically “Ann Lee Lives!”

    Heather Warren Crow discusses critically “Ann Lee Lives!”

    Girlhood and the Plastic Image explores how and why our images promise us the adaptability of youth. This original and engaging study will appeal to a broad interdisciplinary audience including scholars of media studies, film studies, art history, and women’s studies.

  • Archive of my columns for Artnet 2006-2012. The archive is incomplete due to broken links.

    Archive of my columns for Artnet 2006-2012. The archive is incomplete due to broken links.



  • Archive of my writing for Newcity Chicago

    Archive of my writing for Newcity Chicago
  • www.artnews.com

    www.artnews.com
  • hyperallergic.com

    hyperallergic.com
  • thenewinquiry.com

    thenewinquiry.com
  • shepherdexpress.com

    shepherdexpress.com
  • www.vulture.com

    www.vulture.com

    To be able to be a critic/ artist in the US in the early 2000s sin tener que recurrir a hacer banana art, mi abuelita, and other obliged folkloric cliches, I had to fight to avoid being pigeonholed. I value artistic freedom so I find labels to be carimbos.

    My postcard piece for the Biennial 2014 were inspired by Daniel’s piece.

  • The Dams at Sagrado Corazón 2007

    The Dams at Sagrado Corazón 2007

    “call it the DAM, DEMS, DAMNED or the DED...the DAMS was a motley group of young artist from the island of Puerto Rico, along with a magnificent crew of international artist, with the task to develop work that would investigate the role of photography, propaganda and advertisement banners in contemporary Caribbean society...it was a collective effort, a monumental labyrinth, a massive collage "

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