Jean-Pierre Villafañe

Sending wishes to all my fellow Sagittarius celebrating this month

Showing at with today 🎢

Currently on view at curated by 🤹🏽‍♂️ Make sure to check out at 5 bis Rue des Haudriettes

Les Marionnettes, 2022
Oil on Linen
60 x 72 inches

Thanks for the incredible feature on my latest work for

Thrilled to be showing this painting at group exhibition marking the launch of their new location in the San Juan neighborhood of Hato Rey. The exhibition, on view November 5–January 15, 2023, includes over 40 artists working across a range of mediums including site-specific works responding to the architecture of the new gallery.

Midnight Menagerie, 2022
Oil on Linen
40 x 30 inches

Dame chavos no maní

Today is the last day to check out my solo show at .nyc open from 12-6pm. Many thanks to .sigl for preparing an amazing show and to everyone who came by ❤️ besos

Don’t miss your last chance to check out my solo show at .nyc, closing this Sunday, 10/9

Last week to catch the show at .nyc 🤹🏽‍♂️Open from 12-6pm until Sunday Oct 9th!

Closely identifying with the city he observes, Villafañe offers a depiction of New York not as it is traditionally regarded but rather as it is intimately experienced. The use of the voyeur’s gaze permits him to transform the bewildering city into a stage set, allowing him not only to tame the city within the confines of a canvas or sculpture but to domesticate it too. In doing so, the spectator is offered a theater of the daily performances of living. Images within images explicitly reinforce this theater-like rendition of New York. In the left panel of Rear Window (2022), a skirt appears instead as a curtain, with two slipping heels facing each other as if acting in dialogue; in Showdown (2022), a leg slips through the cracks of a fire escape only to find rescue in a shadow; in After Hours (2022), a figure lurks in through a window as if peering at an unfolding scene from backstage.

After Hours, 2022
Oil on Linen
48 x 72 inches

Until They Ring The Bell, 2022. Oil on Canvas; 86cm x 225cm

Honored to present my first solo exhibition in Europe at 🥂Thank you for putting together the most beautiful day and show.

On view until May 14th in Nice, France.

Thrilled to be featured in Issue 1: Alterity 🤹🏽‍♂️ Go grab your copy at Avery Hall while they last!

Cuties at the moma ☕️

Precedent imagery for a potential series: still lifes, portraits and more

Last day to catch my work at the 🍸 On view from 11am-7pm with
“Behind the Curtain”, 2021. 58”x68”, Oil on canvas.

If you’re in Miami this week, make sure to check out my latest work at the with 🍸

“Behind the Curtain”, 2021. 58”x68”, Oil on canvas.

Detail from a larger composition underway 👯‍♀️

“The Parlor”, 2021. 48”x48”, Oil on canvas.

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Part of my ongoing exhibition with via .art - Still on view through link in my bio!
“Sombras”, 2021. 30”x40”, Oil on canvas.

“The Vestry”, 2021. 40”x40”, Oil on canvas.

E pluribus unum

Excited to share the pieces being presented at my exhibition with Baile Latinoamericano, now on view via .art ✨ Link in bio.

“For its second collaboration with Vortic, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design is pleased to present Puerto Rican painter Jean-Pierre Villafañe. With a suite of paintings, Villafañe explores a conceptual and figurative link between two vocabularies dominating his artistic practice: tension within an abstract method versus a figurative celebration. Baile Latinoamericano [Latin American Dance] originates from a matrix of four abstract paintings: an architectural plan, which creates spaces of color and disarticulated interaction between geometric figures. The suite of paintings shares a pastel and warm color palette, creating a sensorial harmony. In Baile Latinoamericano, geometric forms assume a festive movement, by sectioning each composition into a figurative intervention—as if they were tacitly orchestrated within their own exchanges.”

Baile Latinoamericano, my newest exhibition with now on view via .art ☕️

Link in bio.

“For its second collaboration with Vortic, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design is pleased to present Puerto Rican painter Jean-Pierre Villafañe. With a suite of paintings, Villafañe explores a conceptual and figurative link between two vocabularies dominating his artistic practice: tension within an abstract method versus a figurative celebration. Baile Latinoamericano [Latin American Dance] originates from a matrix of four abstract paintings: an architectural plan, which creates spaces of color and disarticulated interaction between geometric figures. The suite of paintings shares a pastel and warm color palette, creating a sensorial harmony. In Baile Latinoamericano, geometric forms assume a festive movement, by sectioning each composition into a figurative intervention—as if they were tacitly orchestrated within their own exchanges.”

Little preview of a painting from my upcoming exhibition Baile Latinoamericano with the opening this Thursday on .art

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“La Historia de Nuestras Traiciones”
Oil on Linen
152cm x 101cm
2021.

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Muy contento de anunciar mi exhibición junto al que será presentada en la plataforma de Vortic] el próximo Jueves, Julio 22.

Excited to announce my upcoming exhibition with presented via Vortic] beginning next Thursday, July 22nd.

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“Cadencias”
Óleo sobre Lino
172cm x 140cm
2021.

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“The Devil’s Dancers”, 2021. 36”x36”, Oil on canvas.