Artist Eduardo Anievas amid his work, at his new studio/gallery in Long Island City. There’s a new gallery/studio in Long Island City, featuring the work of painter Eduardo Anievas, who recently relocated his studio to an accessible space at 10-15 48th Avenue, between Vernon Boulevard and 11th Street. The Anievas Studio/Gallery is open to the public every Saturday, from 1 p.m. until 6 p.m., and the rest of the time he has an open-door policy—he welcomes passersby to also stop in whenever he is there. He has 60 paintings on display and the rest of the available pieces are in a digital portfolio. Anievas first moved his studio to a loft in Long Island City in 2010 after living and painting in Williamsburg for 11 years. After participating in the LIC Arts Open Festival in May 2011, he began a series of open studio events which he and his wife, Elizabeth, hosted every six weeks until July 2012. The Open Studio Series events were lively and familiar; guests indulged in free sangria and tapas, live music and 100 of Anievas’ paintings on display. His works have a strong range of styles and approach many varied subjects including nudes, cityscapes, people walking on the streets of NYC, portraits, and still lifes. Anievas’ primary focus as a painter is on using negative space and geometry to explore the interplay between figure and background. Anievas is originally from Santander, a city in northern Spain. He left his country at age 23 and began to work as a full time artist, primarily with portraits and still lifes, in Germany and Portugal before moving to New York, where he has spent the last 14 years. He has displayed his works at many different venues, including commercial and nonprofit galleries in Europe (Spain, Germany, Portugal, Bulgaria) and the U.S.; and in restaurants, cafes, the streets of Manhattan, and once on a school bus as part of the 2012 Bushwick Open Studios. In the past year, he has had solo exhibitions of his paintings at Ten10 Studios, the SMP Building, and several shops on Vernon Boulevard in addition to solo and group shows at gallery and alternative venues in Riverdale, Rye, Bushwick, and Williamsburg. For more information, visit his Web site, www.eduaran.com.
