Eric Rivera Barbeito

"78 (Yauco)"

10"x10" (14"x14"x1" Framed)

78 (Yauco) is part of a series of paintings (Campamento, 2018) that convey the increasing liquidation of Puerto Rican land to private economic interests in light of the archipelago's economic struggles exacerbated by the passing of Hurricanes María (2017) and Fiona (2023). Each painting of this 78-part series, becomes a stand-in for one of Puerto Rico's municipalities, and makes up a larger whole image, which is sectioned and fragmented with the sale of each tile until nothing is left.

Artist Bio:

Eric Rivera Barbeito (b. 1994) is a visual artist and woodworker that utilizes a multidisciplinary practice to dissect Puerto Rico's social-political relationship with the United States. A native of Bayamón, Puerto Rico, he received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2017. Rivera Barbeito has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. He has been included in group exhibitions at Towson University, School 33, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia, Torpedo Factory Art Center, and the Visual Arts Center of Richmond and has exhibited individually at Monaco in St. Louis, MO."

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