Eduardo Carrasquillo
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Curatorial statement
Eduardo Carrasquillo moved to New York from Puerto Rico in 1970 and by 1975 he was one of the founding members of Teatro 4 teaching theater tech to at-risk youth. He traveled with the organization as they performed to audiences in the US, Cuba, Spain, Luxembourg and France. Teatro 4's Theater in the Park in Central Park continues to this day. In 1977 he began working at the Museo del Barrio on 104th Street in Spanish Harlem. At that time, the museum was the only Puerto Rican museum in USA. There, Eduardo was in charge of fabricating the original concept of the museum, turning a former children's home into a creative space for exhibitions, installations, and artistic gatherings. During his tenure at Museo del Barrio he took a workshop on exhibition preparation and design at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was subsequently responsible for fabricating large reproductions of original works of art for the Museo's children's wing. He also exhibited his ceramics and woodwork in the museum.
He came to the California African American Museum. This is where I met Eduardo when I assumed a position of Curator of Visual Art there in 1984--we shared similar sensibilities on the exhibition design process. I left the museum in 1991 but I continued to call on Eduardo, most notably as the exhibition designer in charge of my projects for the Sao Paulo and Johannesburg Biennials, 1994-95.
Recently, Eduardo returned to creating original works of art and he had his first solo show at the Rumor Mill Cafe in Culver City, CA in May 2008.
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Eduardo Carrasquillo moved to New York from Puerto Rico in 1970 and by 1975 he was one of the founding members of Teatro 4 teaching theater tech to at-risk youth. He traveled with the organization as they performed to audiences in the US, Cuba, Spain, Luxembourg and France. Teatro 4's Theater in the Park in Central Park continues to this day. In 1977 he began working at the Museo del Barrio on 104th Street in Spanish Harlem. At that time, the museum was the only Puerto Rican museum in USA. There, Eduardo was in charge of fabricating the original concept of the museum, turning a former children's home into a creative space for exhibitions, installations, and artistic gatherings. During his tenure at Museo del Barrio he took a workshop on exhibition preparation and design at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was subsequently responsible for fabricating large reproductions of original works of art for the Museo's children's wing. He also exhibited his ceramics and woodwork in the museum.
He came to the California African American Museum. This is where I met Eduardo when I assumed a position of Curator of Visual Art there in 1984--we shared similar sensibilities on the exhibition design process. I left the museum in 1991 but I continued to call on Eduardo, most notably as the exhibition designer in charge of my projects for the Sao Paulo and Johannesburg Biennials, 1994-95.
Recently, Eduardo returned to creating original works of art and he had his first solo show at the Rumor Mill Cafe in Culver City, CA in May 2008.
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