Born in Bogotá, Colombia, December 1953.
After a brief incursion in architecture and a year of painting in New York University, New York, NY., Jorge Cavelier traveled to study in Florence, Italy, in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze where he finished his BFA in 1982. Returning to Colombia the same year he founded “Trazo” an open studio in Bogotá; he worked and taught painting techniques there until 1987. After 1988 he painted in his private studio in Colombia, until June 1999, the year he was kidnapped by the guerrilla group “FARC” in Colombia. Released in 2000, he traveled to the U.S. where he decided to migrate. After being granted with an “extraordinary ability” permanent residence visa, he relocated in the city of Key Biscayne, Florida, where he has been living and working for the last 9 years.
He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions since 1977, in Bogotá and Santa Marta, Colombia; New York and South Hampton, NY, U.S.; Miami and Talahassee, FL, U.S.; Atlanta, GA. U.S.; Quito, Ecuador; Lima, Perú, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Montevideo, Uruguay; Caracas, Venezuela. Seravezza, Florence, and Rome, Italy; Tokyo, Japan; Pretoria, South Africa.
His first sculpture series came to light in 2007. Exhibitions of his works where showed in Miami, FL in 2007 and Bogotá, Colombia, in 2008. Nowadays he works in his series of paintings and sculptures “Labyrinths”, to be showed in private and public spaces in Colombia and the U.S.
Jorge Cavelier was initiated in Kriya Yoga on August 1st 2009.
Artist: Jorge Cavelier
Tittle: Encuentros
Size: 36 x 36 Inches
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Base Price: $ 5,000.00
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