Roberto Moya
Image: El Yunque, diptych
Biography
Roberto Moya ( 1931 - 2008 ) Puerto Rican painter, printmaker and digital artist. Born in New York and raised in the Island, he studied at Eastern New Mexico University, the Pratt Graphic Arts Center in Brooklyn, New York, the New School for Social Research in New York, the Phoenix School of Design in Arizona, and the University of Southern California. His works have been displayed in numerous exhibitions in Puerto Rico and abroad, including a 1988 retrospective in Hawaii. At the end of the eighties, he ventured into digital graphics and in 1989 he created the first digital portfolio in Puerto Rico, which lead to an invitation from the Pratt Graphic Arts Center to lead a seminar. In the early nineties, he was named resident artist of the University of Puerto Rico, where he also was a professor. He often approached the digital medium as a research tool for his painting, what he called “an electronic notebook”, that allowed him to explore with colors before working on the canvas. The style of his pictorial work is semi abstract, characterized by quick brush strokes and loaded with pigment, which imparts a great expressive force to his images. He was paid posthumous homage in 2008 at the National Gallery of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture.
- Art Review, MOYA, Maui Island Currents, Hawaii MAR 1998
