José Morillo 16"x20" Vodou Ceremony 2022 Unframed Acrylic on Canvas Painting #30JM

"Ceremonia" is a vibrant 16"x20" unframed painting on canvas inspired by a voodoo scene in the Dominican Republic, as in Haiti, painted by the Dominican naif painter José Morillo. Morillo was born in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, in 1975 and now lives in Constanza. He is currently considered the most prominent naive painter in Dominican art and is represented by Myriam Nader Art Gallery in New York. Morillo had several exhibitions in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, the U.S, and Colombia at several prestigious art galleries, namely Galeria Nader in the D.R., and art museums such as Museo del Barrio in NY, OAS Museum in Washington; Museo de Las Casas Reales, and Museo of Altagracia in the D.R.; the Museum of Modern Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. José Morillo paints the joy transformed into a light laugh. He sees what surrounds him, what he imagines, and dreams of; figures and objects have their place without diminishing the importance of one or the other, converging