Eduardo Cabrer/ Art and Lechón Asado

A few years ago, when I first met artist Eduardo Cabrer in Connecticut, he was restoring a vintage Sunfish sailboat for his girls to use during their annual summer pilgrimage to Lake Waramaug. He is married to a dear friend of mine, Silvia Bonachea, and I love spending summer afternoons with both of them talking art by the dock, waterskiing with our combined gaggle of kids, and hearing about their adventures living and working in San Juan, Puerto Rico during the year. Not only have I come to know Eduardo as a gifted artist, but this guy is also a terrific cook, as he can make an out of this world Lechón Asado that can feed a hungry crowd for days.

I always look forward to seeing and hearing about the latest art ventures that Eduardo is involved in creating. His ideas and different artistic expressions are seemingly endless. During a recent FaceTime Studio Tour, I was thrilled to see how he plays with different mediums yet his artistic expressions are all woven together with the same fierce wit. His creative pursuits have both a distinctive twist of Puerto Rico history and a nod to Pop Culture. Whether it is his Blow Pop series of paintings, tropical fruit on metal sheets, or his plasticity series of working with resin, I am continuously in awe of his industrial art expertise that is blended perfectly in the color and composition of his works. More details below:

Eduardo A Cabrer was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico (1976). From a young age he started experimenting with different mediums to express his emotions and his identity while further defining his relationship with his surroundings. He went on to pursue his education in the arts at the University of Miami, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón and at the George Washington University where he completed a Masters Degree in Fine Arts (2002).

Recently he has continued his search by participating in the School of Visual Arts Summer Residency program (2016) and in the Vermont Studio Center Residency (2017). He is actively exploring new mediums and ways to combine learned tecniques to create new possibilities of expression. Cabrer is in a constant search for new artistic ways to express how he feels about his surroundings and the relationship with his identity. His journey has taken him from simple graphite drawings to combining acrylics, oils, pastels, resin, tapes, enamels over steel, canvas and wood and currently focusing on found plastic objects.