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Born in 1966, the youngest of three children, Miguel Paredes grew up in the Upper West side of Manhattan’s 73rd Street, between Amsterdam and Columbus, where the tar and concrete urban playgrounds of Central Park, Lincoln Center, the Bronx and the lower east side were also home to the vibrant Hip-hop and break dance revolutions of the times. A precocious talent, Miguel began painting at a very early age. Surrounded by the paintings and drawings that his father collected of Dali, Miró, Magritte and Calder, Miguel’s private world was a place he absorbed books of paintings and artist biographies; not to mention the other cultural mediums first born the same year he was: The Green Hornet, Archie Comics, Batman, and Godzilla.

The early 1980’s in New York City were exciting times for a young artist who later enrolled at the prestigious Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music and Art. The so-called underground art movements of the mid 1970’s and mid 1980’s were far from underground in Paredes’ world. The impact of artists like Warhol and Haring, the short-lived but powerful world of graffiti art, and even the early roots of Low Brow were the daily conventions of junior high school style and attitude. In this world art was displayed to reach as many eyes in as many places as possible and the young Paredes embraced the force and exuberance of a new language that was freeing, uninhibited and massive in its appeal.

At seventeen, and on his own, Paredes headed to Miami Beach. He cooked for nearly thirteen years while he continued to paint out of his studio and take every art class he could audit in the Miami-Dade area. His work during this time was an acculturation of pop, cubism, surrealism, abstraction and urban impressionist influences. His apprenticeship with continualist artist Paul Kus, a former FBI art forgery expert and talented painter in his own right, provided Paredes with the daily practice and skill to meticulously replicate master works in the style of the master’s own hand. At the Kus studio and gallery Paredes’ education as a painter exploded and his ongoing belief in the importance of color, his concern for pictorial elements and his innate understanding of composition, perspective and movement all reached new levels of seriousness.

In the mid-1990’s Paredes started his printing and publishing company PK Graphics out of a one room apartment. With the implacable discipline he imposed upon himself as a budding entrepreneur, Paredes also addressed every new idea that came to him as an artist with a comment or invention. Everything to Miguel is linked to a thought and then to a drawing. Like many of the masters before him, his concern for developing himself in all styles of painting had already given him proficiency in so many ways of seeing and execution that he started to break free of traditional methods of art production and set new frontiers for himself to cross. During these same years, the ArtCenter / South Florida provided him with a consistent home to show his art work. Along with marriage and fatherhood, Paredes’ faculties were suddenly on full alert and he endowed his art, his life, and his new found sense of social responsibility with maximum value.

By 2003, Miguel’s ability to formulate his observations and memories in vigorous cross-over of styles gave his work a dazzling personality and the energetic imagery that he displayed years earlier began to build him a star-powered following in the Southern Florida region of the country. Critics, galleries and collectors took notice and Paredes himself began to see the art world in the context of the epoch he was part of revealing and shaping. These were the years that brought him successful exhibitions and shows at prestigious venues like: The Art Lab in Miami Beach; the Williamsburg Museum in Brooklyn; the Indo-American Cultural Center in Los Angeles; the Agora Gallery in New York City; the Paradeisos Center in Miami; Kent Gallery in Key West; the Fountain Miami in the Wynwood Art District; and three successive private showings during the Art Basel Miami extravaganza that came to Miami each December from 2004 through his most recent showing on Lincoln Road in 2009.

Today, Miguel Paredes’ ability to see in art the connection with the material world from which technology tends to separate us has made him a dominant observer of the familiar and intimate forces in our overlapping lives. His desire to address the shifting values of the 21st Century is the reason he continues to search for a cultural language that has something immediately in common with the language of a new digital and communication savvy global generation. The future is a world that comes at us quickly and Paredes works outside of the constraints artists just five to ten years older than he are still burdened by. Even his digital drawings blend the contemporary desire for what is to come with a sensation of anxiety and this new set of tools suits the creative production of an artist who is restless with a million bits of information. Miguel Paredes currently lives in Miami with his wife Joyce and their four children.

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