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Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción

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🇵🇷 visual artist based in California
📍 board member @richmondartcenter
📚 educator @sfunified
🏛 @cacollegeofarts alumni, class of 2015
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ubik, 2026, 24 inches x 36 inches | Acrylic, ink, and copper on canvas With ‌this ‌painting, ‌I’m answering Philip K. Dick’s Ubik, treating it as a place to sit with unstable reality, entropy, and the shaky frameworks we count on to keep everything from coming undone. Across the surface, a bright swarm of suns, seeds, and plantlike shapes pushes up hard against a heavy, pixel-blocked mass, a structure that looks like it’s assembling itself in the same breath that it starts to fracture. What holds my attention is that tense edge, the point where technology, memory, and physical life blur into one another, and where something beautiful still hangs on even if the world it belongs to is already pulling away. taken in El Granada, California by @arvc.blog
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3 months ago
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orchard of unfinished calculations, 2026 36 inches x 48 inches | Acrylic, ink, and copper on canvas by @arvc.blog
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4 months ago
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night bloom infrastructure, 2026 36 inches x 48 inches | Acrylic, ink, and copper on canvas taken in El Granada, California by @arvc.blog
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4 months ago
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Celebrating 90 years of art, community, and creative possibility at the @richmondartcenter . ✨ So happy to share the evening with Alex and Michaela, and to celebrate an institution that has spent nearly a century making space for artists, ideas, experimentation, and connection. Here’s to the next 90. 🥂🎨 #RichmondArtCenter #RAC90 #BayAreaArt #ArtCommunity #RichmondCA taken in Richmond Art Center by @arvc.blog
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19 days ago
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Orgulloso de participar en esta muestra de arte en la isla, curada por @abdielsegarra para el @museomacpr 🇵🇷 “Diasporican Abstraction: Identities Beyond Representation, un proyecto curatorial de Abdiel D. Segarra Ríos que reúne el trabajo de más de cincuenta artistas de distintas generaciones para explorar la abstracción desde las experiencias de la diáspora, la migración y los intercambios culturales que emergen del tránsito circular entre Puerto Rico y otros territorios. La muestra propone la diáspora no solo como consecuencia del desplazamiento, sino como un espacio de producción cultural y un lugar de enunciación desde el cual replantear las narrativas de la abstracción y la identidad puertorriqueña.” taken in El Granada, California by @arvc.blog
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Have a happy Wednesday, and many blessings from California 🫶 taken in El Granada, California by @arvc.blog
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23 days ago
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A few beautiful moments from Auctorium filming in California with Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, filled with various conceptual, abstract, and hands-on artworks!! Follow us to see more creative works 🎨 #artist #art #california #auctorium by @arvc.blog
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Proud to be included in this exhibition at the @museomacpr My work shown in the Motherland. Glad to represent the West Coast boricua diaspora in this fantastic showcase of talent 🫶 taken in El Granada, California by @arvc.blog
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cultivation of contradictions (in the garden with Sottsass), 2026, 24 inches x 24 inches | Acrylic, vinyl, and ink on canvas. In ‌Cultivation ‌of ‌Contradictions (in the Garden with Sottsass), I propose the garden as a system and an act of rebellion, a space where grids, patterning, and cultivation are always upstaged by contrary growth. Using the exuberant visual style of Ettore Sottsass and the Memphis Group, I combine decorative geometry into botanical forms, with acidic colors and elements that exist somewhere between leaves, furniture, architecture, and punctuation. The painting celebrates contradiction as something to cultivate rather than reconcile. Useful and ornament, nature and design, order and excess all grow together improbably. by @arvc.blog
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2 months ago
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the many machines of maybe, 2026, 24 inches x 24 inches | Acrylic and ink on canvas Within ‌these ‌many ‌machines of maybe, I fold in the historical tongues of modernism that have been moving through my work for years: Bauhaus discipline and its clean geometry, Art Deco’s bright decorative faith, the crisp modular logic of midcentury design, Googie’s upbeat, jet-age futurism, and Memphis with its cheerful refusal to behave. I’m not interested in pinning any of this down as a set of sealed-off chapters. Instead, I let the movements blur and bunch together until they start speaking as a single, speculative visual language that feels like mine. Forms repeat, but not as ornament for its own sake. They start acting like cells, circuits, architectural blocks, particles, components of an unfamiliar device, little systems that keep breaking apart and snapping back into different configurations. The painting treats modernism less as a completed promise of progress and more as a pile of futures that never fully arrived, still there to be shifted, re-sorted, and tried again. Repetition, here, doesn’t land on certainty. It opens room. Each module works like a small engine for imagining what might have been, what could still come into view, and the odd worlds tucked inside the word maybe. taken in El Granada, California by @arvc.blog
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2 months ago
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the modern meadow makes memory, 2026, 24 inches x 36 inches | Acrylic, ink, and copper on canvas With ‌The ‌Modern ‌Meadow Makes Memory, I set botanical shapes beside the modular geometry, bright color, and upbeat visual tone associated with mid-century modernism. Ornament, here, works like an archive. Repeated petals, cellular motifs, and built, architectural patterns hold onto the faint residue of futures once pictured through technology and design. Again and again in my work, I circle back to those inherited promises, not to pine for them, but to treat them as material that still breathes, letting the modern meadow recall, shift form, and flower once more. taken in El Granada, California by @arvc.blog
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