2006 · Juan Carlos Palenzuela
Starsky Brines: Painting
Juan Carlos Palenzuela’s reading for the first solo exhibition, in 2006.
Works across painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. His practice explores the ambiguity of images and objects, and the possibility of a single form holding several meanings. Humor, tenderness and unease coexist in his work.
Acrylic on canvas
150 × 120 cm
2026
01 / Visual selection
Works
Cardboard assemblage, commercial plastic sign, staples and other elements
47 × 32 × 20 cm
2026
Acrylic on canvas
180 × 220 cm
2024
Cardboard assemblage and mixed media
35 × 44 × 46 cm
2026
Cardboard assemblage and mixed media
79 × 49 × 49 cm
2026
Acrylic and crayon on canvas
91 × 91 cm
2023
Industrial paint, spray paint and oil pastel on canvas
180 × 180 cm
2023
Acrylic, ballpoint pen and crayon on canvas
91 × 91 cm
2025–2026
Acrylic and crayon on canvas
150 × 150 cm
2026
Acrylic and crayon on canvas
122 × 97 cm
2026
Industrial paint, spray paint and oil pastel on canvas
150 × 120 cm
2023
Painting on canvas
115 × 115 cm
2026
Acrylic on canvas
98 × 90 cm
2026
Ceramic
33 × 15 × 15 cm
2024
Ceramic
30 × 24 × 19 cm
2024
Ceramic
14 × 10 × 10 cm
2024
Ceramic
26 × 14 × 14 cm
2026
Ceramic
29 × 15 × 15 cm
2026
02 / Artist
Biography
Starsky Brines (Caracas, Venezuela, 1977) works between Miami, Orlando and Caracas. His practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture and installation, exploring ambiguity between the human and the animal, and the coexistence of different meanings within a single form. He earned his degree in Fine Arts, specializing in Painting, from the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Superiores de Artes Plásticas Armando Reverón in 2005. He has presented solo exhibitions in Caracas, Bogotá, Madrid, Seoul, New Orleans and Frankfurt. Recent projects include Paisajes imposibles / Impossible Landscapes (Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, 2024), Luna Park – Shadow of Amusement (Galerie Heike Strelow, 2024), I Just Wanna Play (GBG ARTS, 2025) and Trecho (OBRAR, Centro de Arte Los Galpones, Caracas, 2026), curated by José Luis García.
His work is included in Panorámica. Arte emergente en Venezuela. 2000–2012 (Fundación Telefónica, 2014), by Félix Suazo, and Nuevo País de las Artes (Banesco, 2017). In 2016 he published the artist’s book You speak about painting, but drawings are the base of your work, with GBG ARTS and Ricardo Báez.
Career summary
Starsky Brines (Caracas, Venezuela, 1977) works between Miami, Orlando and Caracas. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Superiores de Artes Plásticas Armando Reverón (2005) and an Advanced Diploma in History of Western Art from Universidad Metropolitana and the Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos Arturo Uslar Pietri (2008–2009). His exhibition history includes solo shows at Galería Spazio Zero and Oficina #1, Caracas; Galería El Museo, Bogotá; Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid; G.Gallery, Seoul; Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans; and Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt. These include Bestiario urbano (2010), No Happy Ends and Parcelita de Poder (2012), Paisajes imposibles / Impossible Landscapes (Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, 2024), Luna Park – Shadow of Amusement (2024), I Just Wanna Play (2025), and Trecho (2026), presented at OBRAR, Caracas, and curated by José Luis García. He also collaborates with Mooni, a gallery with a presence in Mexico City and New York. He has participated in exhibitions at the National Art Museum of China, Coral Gables Museum, and Koo House Museum. Recent group exhibitions include Serendipia > Post_Ready_Made (2022–2023), Express (2024), and Preview: Mutaciones de una transición (2026), alongside We’ve Met Before…. His art fair participation includes KIAF, SP-Arte, Art Miami, Zona Maco, and House of Galleries. His awards include the Special Mention at the XXIII Salón de Pintura, Ateneo de Carúpano (2003), the Juan Lovera Grand Prize (2004), the AVAP Young Artist Award (2010), and the Omar Carreño Young Artist Award (2013). His work is held in the collections of Koo House Museum (South Korea), the National Art Museum of China (Beijing), and the Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure (MAAA, Venezuela), as well as Beth Rudin DeWoody, BURGER Collection, Sander Sammlung, and Colección Mercantil. His work appears in publications including 20 Nuevas Miradas (2003), Arte en Venezuela 1980–2005 (2014), Panorámica. Arte emergente en Venezuela. 2000–2012, by Félix Suazo (Fundación Telefónica, 2014), and Nuevo País de las Artes (2017). In 2016 he published the artist’s book You speak about painting, but drawings are the base of your work, with GBG ARTS and Ricardo Báez.
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Publications
Selected press
FeuilletonFrankfurt · 25 September 2024. Erhard Metz. Starsky Brines: „Luna Park – Shadow of Amusement“ in der Galerie Heike StrelowArticle in German. Exhibition review.
Monopol · 3 September 2024. Silke Hohmann. Ansteckend — Rundgang zur Frankfurt Art ExperienceArticle in German. Mention in an exhibition roundup.
Arte al Día · 6 August 2024. Identidad híbrida y sociedad en Starsky BrinesArticle in Spanish. Review of Paisajes imposibles, Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid.
03 / Artist texts
My work is an inquiry into images and into myself. I am interested in how a single form can hold several meanings. A figure can be human and animal at the same time; an everyday object can retain its identity while becoming strange. Humor, tenderness and unease coexist in these relationships. I work between control and chance. I draw, paint, erase, cross out and assemble, allowing materials to alter my decisions. Cardboard, ceramics and painting offer different kinds of resistance and lead me to discover possibilities I had not anticipated. Lines and eyes reappear in paintings, ceramics and objects, connecting works made at different times. Materials become extensions of myself. Through them, I explore memory, my inner world and the places I have lived. For me, art is discovery and recognition: a way of approaching what I feel and cannot always express in words.
04 / Readings
Texts and Interviews
2016 · Sagrario Berti
Starsky Brines, the Stuff of Drawing
Drawing as thought, action and language. Essay from the 2016 artist’s book.
2015 · Javier Díaz-Guardiola
I want to show honest images that make people experience pain and joy at the same time
An interview on process, materials and the tensions within the work. Included in the 2016 book.
05 / Contact
Contact
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