Jose Margulis

Jose Margulis, born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1970, works predominantly in the medium of geometric 3D sculpture, mixed media, and photography. Margulis completed advanced courses in photography and master B&W lab work under Ricardo Ferreira at Instituto Neumann in Caracas from 1986 to 1990. He then progressively became interested in sculpture. Today his artwork is the result of an intrinsic connection between two and three-dimensional planes working with sculpture in parallel with photography.

Jose Margulis slices plexiglass sheets into abstract, usually repeating forms, then hanging them in space using an aluminum composite material as a sort of rigid canvas. Most of his work is done using these plexiglass sheets with different levels of translucency in a range of colors, patterns, textures and even sometimes photographic images directly printed on the sheet’s surfaces. The bright and fully saturated color palettes to which he instinctively gravitates to are heavily influenced by the traditional Mexican arts and crafts which made a great impact on Jose during the time that he lived there.

Jose treats his pieces as “light traps” in which by controlling the placement of its components, he is able to create intriguing 3D containers. Their designs are then fully revealed by applying or “pouring” light into them. In a sense, light becomes the ink that reveals the design by following a three dimensional template. The light source may vary from natural to one or more fixtures, placed on precise locations in relationship to the subject, with specific power, color temperature, angle and proximity. These exposed patterns and designs are not absolutes or unique, because as the viewer changes their point of view, the work expresses a different narrative that is completely new within its own essence. It intrigues and fascinates Jose how the object mutates in front of him, with no other resource but a simple change of perspective. Going back and forth naturally, Jose tries to synthesize and integrate different perceptions that coexist as different facets of an object. Every time, he finds himself trying to lock that seemingly unreal angle in which we are able to contemplate the amazing connections among complex layers of facts, prejudices and beliefs; that “sometimes surreal” frame in which we discover how easily we could be absolutely wrong and misjudge everything that surrounds us, while tragicomically posing ourselves as proud holders of truth and owners of higher grounds.

Education

1987 Advance Photography, Instituto Neumann Caracas, Venezuela
2003 B.A Management, Universidad Metropolitana , Caracas, Venezuela

Exhibitions

2019 Underneath duality, Solo show, Oliver Cole Gallery, Miami, Fl. USA
2019 Play me, Group show, Mitte Projects, Miami, Fl. USA
2019 Dual realities, Solo show, Contemporaneo Gallery, Asheville, NC. USA
2019 Triangular group show, Galerie Abstract Project, Paris, France
2019 Late works, Solo Show, 1D3 Gallery, Palm Desert, CA, USA
2019 Geometric abstraction in Latin America, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
2019 Volumes without mass, Solo Show Chromatic Art Gallery, Miami Fl , USA
2018 Dual realities, Solo show at The art ovation hotel, Sarasota, Fl, USA
2018 Carre latin, Latin american art festival, LCP+art, Palais Royal, Paris, France
2018 Repetitions, Chromatic Art Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
2018 Pixels, Group show, GBG at Imago art in action, Coral Gables, FL., USA
2017 Art Basel week Show, Group Exhibition, Art living room Gallery Miami, Fl ,USA
2017 Kinetic Drive, Chromatic Art Gallery, Miami, Fl, USA
2017 Geometric Abstraction, Group show, REN Gallery LA, California. USA
2017 3D Vibrations J.Margulis retrospective Solo Show, Miami Dade College, Miami Fl. USA
2017 The four elements, Group Show Sol Taplin Gallery. Miami, Fl. USA
2016 Lightraps, J.Margulis , Galleria GUM, Miami Fl..USA
2016 Abstracción-Creación , Group Exhibition, Galeria Viloria Blanco Maracaibo, Vzla.
2016 Art Basel week Show, Group Exhibition, Art living room Gallery Miami, Fl. USA
2016 Confluences in Brazilian Art Group Exhibition, Art & Design Gallery Miami, Fl. USA
2016 Arte en Mayo, Fundacion Rozas Botran, Guatemala, Guatemala
2016 Metamorphic abstraction (Group exhibition by Naera Kim) Art Space One, NY, USA
2015 Summer group Exhibition, Art Nouveau Gallery, Miami, Fl, USA
2014 Samskaras, Solo Show, AG Gallery, Miami, FL USA
2013 Summer Collective Show, Alex Slato Kabinet, Miami, FL. USA
2019 L.A Art Show, Rofa Projects, Potomac, MD, USA
2018 ARTto Art Toronto, ROFA Project, Toronto, Canada
2018 Context Art Fair Miami, Contempop Gallery, New York /Tel Aviv
2017 Context Art Fair Miami, Contempop Gallery, New York /Tel Aviv
2017 ARTto Art Toronto, ROFA Project, Toronto, Canada
2017 Barcu Bogota Arte y Cultura, Contempop Gallery, Bogota, Colombia
2017 Boston Fine Art Show, Boston, Aibo Gallery, Boston MA, New York, USA
2017 Art + Design Market, Hamptons, Contempop Gallery, NY, New York, USA
2017 Context NY, Contempop Gallery, NY, New York, USA
2017 SP Arte, Jacqueline Shor Art, Sao Paolo Brasil
2017 PARC 17, ROFA Project, Lima Peru.
2017 Art LIMA, Jaqueline Shor Art, Lima, Peru
2017 Art Boca Contemporary Art Projects USA, Miami FL USA
2017 L.A Art Fair, Alex Slato Kabinet, Miami FL USA
2017 Art Palm Beach, Contemporary Art Projects USA, Miami FL. USA
2016 Context Art Fair, Contempop Gallery, Miami FL. USA
2019 Salon des realites Nouvelles, Paris, France.
2018 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, North America South east Winner, 2018
2017 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, North America South east finalist, 2017
2017 Museo Ixchel, Guatemala Permanent Collection Guatemala City, Guatemala
2017 Collective exhibition at BOCA Museum of Modern Art, Boca Raton, FL USA 2016 International Emerging artist Award, Dubai UAE
2015 Educational exhibit and student talks Pine Crest Academy , Ft Lauderdale, Fl. USA