"Autobiography"

When I was 16 and 17 years attended three nights a week at the Casa del Artista ", put on a walk at night for San Jose and fear not (much) to be assaulted,   then he was still its founder Olga Espinach, received lessons in drawing and after cake with Mario Salazar, eventually I became allergic to dust leaving the following year was a season with Chinese Morales, who gave me the first principles of Oil ... I was in Fine Arts from the University of Costa Rica, really appreciate the time and dedication of many teachers. Much learned in the shuffle with my friends and colleagues of Fine Arts with its sincere appreciation of art, encouragement and criticism. I combined my background in painting with several   other activities, which gave me a few pence, (as assistant to an advertising designers or related   and as editor of texts, which then were prepared manually. Others as an artisan, producing ceramics (mostly masks) plus   I made the setting for some curtains, esenografías and finished the weaves and manage several times as an actor. For nearly three years I worked in advertising design departments in two newspapers of Costa Rica. Only work in partnership with scholars from the taxonomy, insect, I remained for twelve years in a formal work as an illustrator "scientific."

That did not stop to continue painting and performing solo at the beginning of drawing, China ink pen or brush, then indict me acrylic ...

And there are those who I claim that I turned to painting to full from the start, but everyone has their own story mine is not bad or sinful for wanting to experience or survive in areas not strictly artistic. I firmly believe that art is not just technical or effects, is experience and each experience is irreversible and well valid.

  Some people also miss my first stages of a more expressionistic and sophisticated, but no longer harbor a cult of suffering or drama. In my youth I often vented my chapters emotional, poured in the paper, I now prefer the canvas ...   a more level of life, where you must turn the page to see the painful chapters and find grace to the issues around us, our neighborhoods, people that surround us daily, our animals and relatives ...   to their threatened environment, but without leadership garments. Today I   Like human recreate everyday scenes, with animals as protagonists, for years my daughter tells me to go more "loose" animals that people, perhaps because it shows the affection that I have them ...

ES-CR "> studied at" La Casa del Artista "and in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Costa Rica.

In 1985, first prize for drawing in the First Competition for Young Painters and amateur artist, organized by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports in 1987, won first prize in the annual contest "Young Fausto Pacheco values", organized by the Cultural Center Rican American. UCR graduate in Fine Arts. Jose Alejandro worked as a scientific illustrator at INBio (National Biodiversity Institute) for 12 years and during that period were published more than ten books with his illustrations, the publisher of INBio and   editorial level taxonomic international.

  José Alejandro is mainly a painter, draftsman and printmaker. The technique most used today is the acrylic, followed by oil. Has in his book his own etching press for etching. But he has also dabbled in modeling and woodcarving.

Solo Exhibitions:

1988 June.   Pen drawings.   Gallery José Figueres, Banco Popular de Costa Rica, San José.

1988 August.   Inks.   Hall Institute of Hispanic Culture, San José, Costa Rica.   The same rotated Recreation Center at the University of Costa Rica and its Regional Headquarters in San Ramon.

1989 April.   "We Mesmos."   Arts & Culture Center Jatun Pacha, Otavalo, Ecuador.

1990 August.   Metal engravings and line drawings.   Registration lobby of the University of Costa Rica.   It rotated to the Shakespeare Gallery, located in San Jose.

1991, November.   "After the laughter is music first ', uncritical, Alliance Française de San José.

1992, June.   Acrylics, Café "Carpi Diem."   Faculty of Arts at the University of Costa Rica.

1994, April.   Anglo Bank, San Pedro. Acrylics, oils.

1994, July.   Hotel Costa Rica. Acrylics, oils.

1995, April.   "Children's Museum." Acrylic

1997, April.   Sunset Café. San Pedro Montes de Oca.

1999 September.   The Blue House.

2000, November. National Theatre, etching and some acrylics

2002, February, leatherbacks INBio-room Park. Sto. Domingo de Heredia

2003, February, exhibition hall-Parque Terra del INBio. Sto Domingo de Heredia.

2006, September. National Gallery (Center of culture, science and the arts, "Children's Museum). Acrylics and oils

2008, June, Hotel Marriot Los Sueños "" Tropical Sense of humor ", acrylic

2009, Rest - Art "The stray cat," in Perez Zeledon, "Alejo visiting cats stray cat.

Group Exhibitions 1983 to 2007

Some I remember:

- Faculty of Fine Arts (UCR) (year-end samples, 80's)

-          Deportivo Municipal Headquarters San Jose.

-          Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock.

-          Tent Theatre.

-          School of Architecture (UCR)

-          American Costa Rican Cultural Center. (Several events of Fausto Pacheco)

-          National Museum of Costa Rica.

-          National Library.

-          College of Dentists.

-          Gallery 825.

-          Gallery José Figueres, 2 nd Av. (Drawing and sculpture contest People's Bank)

Ignore "> -          Museo Calderón Guardia (Drawing Contest CCSS)

-          Gallery Jose Figueres Ave 1 st. (Painting Competition, the anniversary of Banco Popular, 94)

-          ES-CR "> Hotel Las Gaviotas, Golfito.

-          Folklore Festival, San Ramon.

-          National Biodiversity Institute.

Ignore "> -          Workshop 1112 in Barrio Aranujez then.

-          American Costa Rican Cultural Center in the "New Etching, Engraving Young."

-          Museums Bank Central, drawings for the competition of the 50 Anniversary of the CCSS

  -    (Exhibition Association of Fine Artists for Charity, 94)

-          "Art for Life" Contry Day School.

- ">" Annual Art Fair "Barrio La Granja, San Pedro, several times.

-          "Art for Children"   (CCCN)

-          Restaurant Coconut, Tamarindo Beach, Guanacaste.

-          National Center for the Arts, Science and Culture (VI Bienal L & S) "Children's Museum."

-          Gallery APEC, Alajuela.

-          Cultural Center of Spain (Lonely and Boruca Frame)

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-          Gallery Julian Marchena "Grafica End of the Century"

-          Hotel San José Palacio.

-          Valoarte 2007, two works selected.

-          ES-CR "> Biennial Convergence in the Costa Rican Art Museum (2008)

-          Second Salon of Erotic Art, Medrano Gallery, San Jose

- Competition for grocery stores, organized by Valanti and Sui Generis, in the Children's Museum, (Nov. 2009)

He has participated since the nineties in art fairs in the gardens surrounding the house of Jim Theologos in Barrio La Granja and art fairs organized by Ulysses when they were in the alley south of the Banco Popular de San Pedro de Montes de Oca and March 08 San Rafael   Escazú .... In "Transitarte" National Park San Jose.