Jairo Barragán (NAIDE)
Naide is the pseudonym for Jairo Barragán, a Colombian artist living and working in New York City. Editorial cartoonist and illustrator for more than two decades, Naide’s work has been published in major newspapers and magazines in the USA as well as his native Colombia. In New York he has been a contributor to the Book Review and the Op Page of the New York Times as well as cover illustrator for IDEAS, a publication of Open Society of New York and for UNITE the labor Union Magazine.
A collection of his drawings has been published under the title "Lo que Naide se imagina", a play on words, roughly rendered into English as both, "Naide's Imaginations" and "What no one but Naide could Imagine". In 1980 he was awarded the Simon Bolivar National Journalism Award for his editorial cartoons. In 1997, his editorial cartoon won the International Labor Communication Association Award.
EXHIBITIONS
101 Wooster Street Gallery, Soho
Maximilian Gallery, Soho
Ollantay Gallery, Soho
Galeria El SUR New York City.
Maison de la Culture "Pablo Neruda" Paris France
Museum de Chartres Chartres, France
Galerîa Diners Bogotá, Colombia
Banco de la Republicá Girardot, Colombia
Medellin at the Centro de las Artes Quirima
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
My artistic expressions have always presented a dilemma…. would the public see me as a painter or as a cartoonist? As for me, I have always been both. However, the cartoonist is the public citizen, the thinker who reflects and comments on social and political realities. My paintings speak the inner, private me, the entity, the person I am. My "landscapes" are reflections of my inner spaces, emotional and at times physical, but always subjectively mine. My paintings now are "neither, nor"-- "either, or" landscapes or pure abstraction, they portray and convey remembered places and everlasting and ever-changing states of being. I always wanted to do "moonshine" paintings, to navigate my interior spaces, as sailors do, guided by the stars whenever they travel on earth. My last paintings, my first black paintings, hearken to the quietude of the night, stories heard from a an old man fired by his rum, memories of battles and of stars, of the imagination of the child, the knowledge of the man. Again of night, menacing at times, but always all enveloping.
Naide is available to create editorial illustrations, invitations for corporate and private affairs, wall murals and commissioned paintings.
Cartoons by Naide
  
CONTACT INFORMATION
elnaide@hotmail.com
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