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Ralph Vázquez-Concepción

artist, curator, and educator based in San Francisco, California

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uranium rock, 2021

A work inspired by the cosmic origins of uranium. mini level, ink, acrylic, spray paint, and painted rocks over framed…

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, Art, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, Painting, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

hanford, 2021

A visual exploration into the contaminated geology surrounding the Hanford Site, a decommissioned nuclear production complex operated by the United…

abstract expressionism, Abstraction, atomic age, atomic power, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, Painting, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

discovery of an ancient nuclear reactor, 2021

A work inspired by the discovery of an ancient nuclear reactor in Oklo, Gabon. Ink, spray paint, acrylic, and copper…

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, Art, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, nuclear power, Painting, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

trinity, 2020

A visual exploration into the contaminated geology surrounding the Trinity Site. Trinity was the code name of the first detonation…

Art, atomic power, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, nuclear energy, Painting, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

homage to brakhage, 2005, video exhibited in the entreFORMAS exhibition at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico in 2021

In 2005, I produced a video piece titled Homage a Brakhage, dedicated to the American experimental filmmaker. I also produced…

Abdiel Segarra, Abstraction, Art, Exhibition, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, Video

“Revisiting Kiss and Tell,” a collaboration with Lapis Xicaldo, 2018, presented at the GLBT History Museum

In the fall of 1990, Vancouver-based artist collective Kiss and Tell presented an exhibition titled Drawing the Line at Cameraworks in San Francisco. The…

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, San Francisco

silentium est aureum, 2017

A series of photographs inspired by scientist Ernest Rutherford’s experiment pointing alpha beams at gold foil to detect alpha waves…

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, Art, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, nuclear power, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

Noche de Ambiente: A window into queer Latinidad in San Francisco from the late 70s to the late 90s, curated by writer Julián Delgado Lopera and designed by artist Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, presented at the GLBT History Museum in 2017

Ambiente is both space and culture, geography, and aesthetics. It is a drag queen outside of Esta Noche in 1993 lighting a cigarette, it…

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, San Francisco

From Thanatophilia to Necropolitics: On the work of SEMEFO and Teresa Margolles, 1990–Now, Presented at the 2015 California College of the Arts Curatorial Practice Graduate Symposium

This piece is my M.A. thesis, written between the fall of 2013 and the spring of 2015 as part of…

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, Art, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

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