Lyle O. Reitzel

After Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery’s success representing the Dominican Republic at Context Art Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2014, it now prepares to attend two prestigious contemporary art fairs, ARCO Madrid and VOLTA NY. The gallery was invited to both fairs by curatorial selection, with the acclaimed dominican artist from an emerging generation, Hulda Guzmán. ARCO Madrid will take place from February 25th-March 1st, and VOLTA New York from March 5-8.

Lyle O. Reitzel presents an unpublished group of works by Hulda, composed by portraits and sceneries, elaborated in acrylic over canvas. Two different series have been produced, with the particularity that one has been created with the left hand, that being a new experiment by the artist, accomplishing a more gestural and organic vibe. With the right hand, rigours details and geometrical elements take place.

In Wendy Guerra’s words, renowned Cuban writer who wrote for Hulda’s catalogue, “The architectonic scenery, the human scenery and the scenery seen as entertainment by humans is also a way of contemplating and confronting the decoding of this caribbean artist. To paint these days, is an act of faith, a way of giving yourself in completely without any prejudice. To approach a scenery, represents a much larger boldness, almost a religious gesture of whom is witness of the prominence of its insular surrounding”.

Hulda Guzmán, born in 1984, Santo Domingo, is one of the young artists embracing the avant-garde. Her work is transgressive, owner of her own irreverence that is only overcome by her own originality.

• Studied Visual arts and illustration at Altos de Chavon School of Design (Dom. Rep) affiliated to Parsons School of Design, New York (2002-2004).

• Scholarship for her degree at Parsons School of Design, New York, 2004-2006.

• Degree in Visual Arts at the National School of Visual Arts, speciality in Photography and Mural Painting, Mexico, DF.

• Awarded with the “Painting Prize” at the 25 Biennial of Visual Arts, 2009. Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

• Painting Prize, Leon Jimenez Contest, among others.

• Participated in different individual and collective exhibitions in Santo Domingo, Miami, New York, Seúl, Guatemala and Los Angeles.

• Art Works can be found in permanent collections of: Centro León Jimenes, Santiago; Fundación Casa Cortés, Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico; Antonio Murzi Collection, Panama; Private collections in: Dominican Republic, China, Spain, France, Italy and United States.

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In 1988, Lyle O. Reitzel began his career as art merchant, promoting a select group of underground Contemporary artists, not represented in the market, presenting an avant-garde and daring asthetic proposal, where the new, the strange, and the extravagant could be appreciated.

The Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery opened its doors in Santo Domingo in 1995 and has, since then, focused its efforts on supporting the new art trends of the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the Caribbean, including Latin America and the rest of the world.

The gallery set out on a great adventure, to open new doors, and between 2006 and 2010 become an important zone of artistic development devoted to Contemporary Art, the Wynwood art district in Miami This step is the result of the dynamic action practiced by the gallery for more than a decade in Santo Domingo, supported by the systematic organization of exhibitions in galleries and museums of great capital cities around the world, as well as by the participation in important international fairs, delivering enough to get inserted into today’s active and ever-growing international market.

The gallery has participated in:
• ARCO 1997, Feria Interncional de Arte Contemporaneo, (Garcia Cordero, Marcelo Aguirre, Tony Capellan) Madrid, Spain
• ARCO 1998, (Garcia Cordero, Tony Capellan) Madrid, Spain
• FIA 1999, Feria Internacional De Arte Iberoamericano, (Gustavo Acosta, Edouard Duval Carrie, Garcia Cordero, Eleomar Puente) Caracas, Venezuela
• Art Miami 2000, (Raquel Paiewonsky, Duval Carrie, Garcia Cordero, Eleomar Puente, Gustavo Acosta, Heriberto Mora) Miami, FL
• Art Miami 2001, (Sasha Tebo, Garcia Cordero, Gustavo Acosta, Eleomar Puente, Edouard Duval Carrie) Miami, FL
• ARCO 2002, Cutting Edge Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo, (Raquel Paiewonsky, Jorge Pineda) Madrid, Spain
• Art Miami 2003, New Perspective, (Walter Iraheta, Raquel Paiewonsky, Eleomar Puente) Miami, FL
• Zona Maco 2003 (Muestra 2), (Raquel Paiewonsky, Jorge Pineda, Garcia Cordero, Walter Iraheta, Eleomar Puente) Mexico
• Arteamericas 2004, Latin American Art Fair, (Gerard Ellis, Gustavo Acosta, Garcia Cordero, Eleomar Puente) Miami, FL
• Arteamericas 2005, (Duval Carrie,Garcia Cordero,Gustavo Acosta, Eleomar Puente, Fausto Ortiz) Miami, FL
• AAF 2005 Contemporary Art Fair Pier 92, (Duval Carrie, Jose Bedia, Roberto Fabelo, Vicenta Casan, Fausto Ortiz, Cruz Azaceta, Garcia Cordero, Eleomar Puente) New York, NY
• Art Miami 2006, (Jose Bedia, Cruz Azaceta, Vicenta Casan, Garcia Cordero, Duval Carrie) Miami, FL
• ARTEAMERICAS 2006, (Gustavo Acosta, Jose Bedia, Cruz Azaceta, Duval Carrie, Garcia Cordero, Eleomar Puente) Miami, FL
• CIRCA 2006 International Art Fair, (Gustavo Acosta, Cruz Azaceta, Duval Carrie, Jose Bedia, Garcia Cordero, Roberto Fabelo, Eleomar Puente) San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Arteamericas 2007, (Raquel Paiewonsky, Federico Uribe, Leonel Matheu, Eleomar Puente, Jose Bedia, Garcia Cordero, Cruz Azaceta, Duval Carrie) Miami, FL
• CIRCA 2007, featuring Jose Bedia, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Buenos Aires Photo 2007, (Vicenta Casan, Maritza Molina, Juan Erlich, Raquel Paiewonsky) Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• PINTA 2007 (Duval Carrie, Gerard Ellis, Garcia Cordero, Cruz Azaceta, Jose Bedia) Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY
• Arteamericas 2008 (Juan Erlich,Cruz Azaceta, Garcia Cordero, Victor Payares, Gerard Ellis, Jose Bedia, Eleomar Puente , Duval Carrie) Miami, FL
• MIART 2008 Modern and Contemporary International Art Fair (Jose Bedia, Garcia Cordero) Milano, Italy
• CIRCA 2008 (Eleomar Puente, Jose Bedia, Juan Erlich, Melissa Mejia, Garcia Cordero) San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Arte BA 2008 Feria Internacional de Arte Latinoamericano (Jose Bedia, Juan Erlich, Melissa Mejia, Garcia Cordero, Gerard Ellis) Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Buenos Aires Photo 2008, featuring Juan Erlich, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• PINTA 2008, (Garcia Cordero, Jose Bedia, Gerard Ellis, Eleomar Puente) Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY
• Photo Miami 2008 during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009, featuring Juan Erlich, Miami, FL
• Arteamericas 2009, (Jose Bedia, Melissa Mejia, Victor Payares, Duval Carrie, Garcia Cordero, Cruz Azaceta, Juan Erlich, Eleomar Puente, Gerard Ellis) Miami, FL
• Buenos Aires Photo 2009, featuring Juan Erlich, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• PINTA 2009, (Marcos Lopez, Garcia Cordero, Gerard Ellis, Eleomar Puente, Luiciano Goizueta) Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY
• Pulse Miami 2009 (Impulse) during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009 featuring Victor Payares at the Ice Palace, Wynwood Art District, Miami, FL
• MIA 2010 Miami International Art Fair Retrospective Exhibition by Jose Bedia, curated by Lyle O. Reitzel, booth at Wynwood Special Zone (Marcos Lopez, Edouard Duval Carrie, Segundo Planes, Jorge Pineda, Victor Payares, Garcia Cordero)
• SCOPE New York 2010, (Gerard Ellis, Jose Bedia, Garcia Cordero y Victor Payares) Lincoln Center Damrosch Park, New York, NY
• PINTA 2010, (Jose Bedia, Jose Garcia, Cordero, Gerard Ellis, Victor Payares) Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY
• SCOPE Miami 2010 during Art Basel Miami Beach 2010 (Gerard Ellis, Garcia Cordero, Antuan Rodriguez, Jose Bedia, Victor Payares)
• Arteamericas 2010, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami FL (Gustavo Acosta, Gerard Ellis, Duval Carrie, jose Bedia, Eleomar Puente, Victor Payares, Garcia Cordero)
• Scope Art Fair New York 2011, during the Armory Show, Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, New York
• KIAF 2012 KOREA INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR, Latin American Pavilion, Seoul, South Korea
• CONTEXT ART MIAMI 2012, Florida, USA
• VOLTA NY 2013, featuring Gerard Ellis
•SCOPE NEW YORK 2012, New York, featuring Garcia Cordero, Gerard Ellis, Jorge Pineda & Victor Payares
•PINTA 2013, Earls Court Exhibition Center, London, United Kingdom
•CONTEXT Art Miami 2013 during Art Basel Miami Beach
•VOLTA NY 2014 during The Armory Show featuring solo show by Gerard Ellis