Ricardo Mazal

Born in Mexico City in 1950 Mazal moved to Barcelona Spain in 1986,
and since 1990 has lived and worked in New York City, as well as Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Mazal’s work explores the process of visual perception as it takes form in the human consciousness. His paintings depict the passage of time, not by illustrating events but by leaving their residue to dissipate in space like a still photograph of a speeding object blurred to abstraction.

Ricardo Mazal creates his paintings by applying several layers of color with horizontal and vertical pulls of long foam rubber blades loaded with paint. He then wipes away with a similar dry blade leaving a trail of infused pigment, a diary of a sort that chronicles this trans-formative process. Revealed are veiled layers of information, each exposing its own structure and texture depending on the pressure, velocity and paint load of each gesture. The viewer’s eye slips through the parted seams that form from where one stroke ends and another begins exploring each successive layer underneath.

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Exhibitions & Collections
 

Individual Exhibitions
 

2015

Butan Abstracto, Museo Estación Indianilla, Mexico City, Mexico. (Catalog)

New Paintings, Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, Canada. (Catalog)

New Paintings, Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA. (Catalog)

2014

Bhutan Abstractions, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY.

Kailash Black Mountain, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore.

Kailash Black Mountain, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong, China.

2013

New Paintings, Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, Canada. (Catalog)

The Kora Dialogues, Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA. (Catalog)

2012

Kailash, Museo Estación Indianilla, Mexico City, Mexico. (Catalog)

Kailash, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY.

Ricardo Mazal Select Works, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

2011

Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ.

KORA, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong, China.

2010

KORA, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY. (Catalog)

KORA, Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Catalog)

Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

Ricardo Mazal, Pintura y Fotografía 1994-2009, Museo Abstracto Manuel Felguerez, Zacatecas, ZC, Mexico. (Catalog)

New Works, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

2009

Ricardo Mazal Pintura y Fotografía 1994-2009, Museum of Art, Queretaro, Queretaro, QRO, Mexico. (Catalog)

Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

2008

Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY
Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington DC
Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM
Elins Eagle-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007
MasArt, Barcelona, Spain
Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2006
Ricardo Mazal, La Tumba de la Reina Roja: From Reality to Abstraction, Centro de las Artes, Pinacoteca, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Ricardo Mazal, La Tumba de la Reina Roja: From Reality to Abstraction, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Ricardo Mazal, Works 1993 – 2006, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico (catalog)
Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
New Works, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID

2005
Elins Eagles Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Museo National de Anthropologia, Mexico City
Robert Kid Gallery, Boomfield Hills, MI
Chiaroscuro Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

2004
Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2003   
Ricardo Mazal, New Paintings. Elins and Eagles-Smith Gallery. San Francisco, CA. USA.
Ricardo Mazal, New Monotypes. Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA. USA.
Ricardo Mazal, New Paintings.  Buschlen-Mowatt Gallery, Palm Dessert, CA.
USA

2002   
Ricardo Mazal, Paintings from The Center for Contemporary Arts.
Galeria Ramis Barquet.
Monterrey, Mexico.
Ricardo Mazal, New Paintings and Monotypes.
Ricardo Mazal, Gary Mankus Collaborative  
Photography. Chiaroscuro Gallery. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
New Paintings by Ricardo Mazal, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. (Catalog)
Ricardo Mazal, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, N.Y., USA. (Catalog)

2001   
Ricardo Mazal. Galerie 89, Aarwangen, Switzerland.
Ricardo Mazal, New Paintings,Photographs and Drawings. Rule Gallery, Denver, CO, USA.
Ricardo Mazal, Painting, Photography, Drawing. Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, Mexico. (Catalog).
New Monotypes, Aurobora Press. San FRancisco, CA. USA.

2000   
Ricardo Mazal, Paintings 1990-2000. Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey (MARCO),Monterrey, Mexico. (Catalog).
Recent Paintings, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, N.L. Mexico.
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, USA.
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI, USA.

1999   
Rule Modern and Contemporary Gallery, Denver, CO, USA.
Erickson & Elins / Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, USA.
New Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA, USA.
The E - Series, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, NY, USA. (Catalog).
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, USA.

1998   
The Yellow Circle & Eve, Galeria Maeght, Barcelona,Spain.

1997   
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, USA.
Yellow Circle Series, Rule Modern and Contemporary Gallery, Denver, CO, USA.
Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Vail-Giesler Contemporary Art, Des Moines, IO, USA.

1996   
Galería Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico. (Catalog).

1994
Galería Maeght, Barcelona, Spain. (Catalog).

1992   
Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, Mexico. (Catalog).

1990   
Scott Alan Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
Galería de Arte Mexicano, México City, Mexico. (Catalog).
Galería Arte Actual Mexicano, Monterrey, Mexico. (Catalog).

1989   
Scott Alan Gallery, New York, NY, USA. (Catalog).

1988   
Galería de Arte Mexicano, México City, Mexico. (Catalog).
Galería Arte Actual Mexicano, Monterrey, Mexico. (Catalog).
Galería Nomen, Barcelona, Spain.
Galería Carl Van Der Voort, Ibiza, Spain.
 

Group Exhibitions
 

2003   
San Francisco Art Fair, Elins and Eagles-Smith Gallery.
San Francisco, CA. USA.
ARCO, Galeria Ramis Barquet. Madrid, Spain.

2002   
Arte de America Latina. Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru.
Wrapped, Evo Gallery. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Group Show. Michel Dunev Gallery. Ampurdan, Spain
Group Show. Robert Kidd Gallery. Birmingham, MI, USA.
Monterrey Art Fair. Galeria Ramis Barquet. Monterrey, Mexico.
New York Armory Show, Galeria Ramis Barquet. New York, NY. USA.
ARCO, Galeria Ramis Barquet. Madrid, Spain.

2001   
Tendencias, Museo de Arte Moderno. Mexico City, Mexico.
Art Santa Fe, Rule Gallery, Santa Fe,NM, USA.
Between Worlds: Jewish Artists of Latin America, Mizel Arts Center, Denver, CO. USA
FOUR: Selected works by Lynda Karshan/ Ricardo Mazal/ Rex Ray/ Sophie Smallhorn.
Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, CA. USA.
Abstracciones, Traveling Exhibition through Mexico. Organized by the Mexican Ministry of Culture
Miami Art Fair, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Miami, Fl. USA.
Art Chicago, Galería Ramis Barquet, Chicago, USA.

2000   
Mexico/ New York: A Vital Dialogue, The Mexican Cultural Institute, New York., N.Y. (Catalog)
Paisaje Urbano, Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, Mexico.

1999   
Inapropiadamente Dibujo, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico.
Today and Everyday,  Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, NY, USA
Pleasures of the Palettes, Scottsdale, AZ. USA
Art Santa Fe, Rule Modern and Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
The Conscious Line, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID, USA.
Introductions & Dialogue, Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Art Chicago, Galería Ramis Barquet, Chicago, IL, USA.
ARCO ‘99, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Madrid, Spain.
  
1998   
4th. Salon de Arte Bancomer, Mexico City, Mexico. (Catalog). 
Limn Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
Art Chicago, Galería Ramis Barquet, Chicago, IL, USA.
ARCO ‘98, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Madrid, Spain. 
    
1997   
Laura Anderson Barbata, Linda Matalon, Ricardo Mazal: Embodied Abstraction, Americas Society, New York, NY, USA.
Miami Art Fair, Galería Ramis Barquet, Miami, FL, USA.
ARCO '97, Galería Ramis Barquet, Madrid, Spain.
ARCO '97, Galería Maeght, Madrid, Spain.
Art Chicago, Galería Ramis Barquet, Chicago, IL, USA.
Art Santa Fe, Bentley Gallery, Sante Fe, NM, USA.
Art Santa Fe, Megan Fox Gallery, Sante Fe, NM, USA.
Painting Group Exhibition, Megan Fox Gallery, Sante Fe, NM, USA.
Drawings and Photographs, Megan Fox Gallery, Sante Fe, NM, USA.
3er Premio MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Garza Garcia, NL, Mexico     
Red, Robin Rule Gallery, Denver, CO, USA.
FIAC '97, Galería Ramis Barquet, Paris, France. 

1996   
Modern Miniatures: The Redefining of the Small, Brewster Gallery,