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Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción

a visual artist and educator based in the Bay Area, California

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Tag: Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción

once the atomic energy commission, 2021

ink, acrylic, vinyl, and steel grommets over Ram Board 38 x 36 inches

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

uranium rock, 2021

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

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 … More

abstract expressionism, Abstraction, atomic age, atomic power, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, 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 … More

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

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 … More

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 … More

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

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