Jose Valdes Bartroli
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Mixed Media

Square Basketball


In this intervention a square basketball is left on the street for the kids to play with. The square ball fits the dimensions of the milk crate used as a basket by the kids in Fishtown Philadelphia , 2013

First Photograph


This image depicts the first photograph I ever took. These 2 photos were taken on June 24th 1995 in Havana, Cuba.
This piece displays the photograph's ability to stop time and depict change.

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Site Specific Paintings


This installation consitst of paintings and drawings which are copies of the floorplan provided by the gallery in which the show will take place. These are finished by adding a red thumbtack on the work, on the day of the exhibition, marking its position in the gallery. 2012

Tape Piece


This installation was made using rolls of clear packing tape which were taped to the wall and left to unrravel during a gallery opening. The piece lasts about 10-12 hours which is the time it takes the rolls of tape to reach the floor. 2010

Live Portrait


This installation consists of a hollow pedestal that has been adapted to hold a sitting subject, covered by a plexiglas box. The performance was executed during the First Friday Gallery hop in Tallahassee, at the Phylis Strauss Gallery. Nick Parparian was kind enough to participate on the performance and stayed inside the installation for over 1 hour, his instructions were to interact (or not) as much or as little as he wanted with the viewers. 2009

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Stacked


Stacked Phonebooks From the " Stacked " Series

This installation consists of a series of 63 found phonebooks which were stacked on top of each other until they reached a beam at the end of the wall of the gallery. 2008

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Sold Paintings


The works in this series are paintings stetched on canvas that have been covered with wrapping paper and hung in the gallery. A red dot indicating a sale was placed on the information label. They were displayed during the First Friday Gallery hop at the Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery in Tallahassee Florida. 2008

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Moleskine Piece (For Barnett Newman)


Ink on Moleskine notebook. 2012

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