r/ace

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About the author

Ricardo "r/ace" Acevedo was born of Yaqui-Mexican & Finlandian decent. Raised in Southern California. Pursued artistic endeavors throughout life, originally in the visual arts which morphed into music and performance by the 1980's and then returned full circle... As visual artist, writer, musician and film-maker, from the beginning until today his work has always been influenced and charged with sensuality and eroticism.

Moved to Austin, TX in July of 1998. Immediately set about incorporating more technology into the artistic vision that had been defined while in Arizona via the scanning and manipulating of photo negatives to create painterly photo-graphic art and the use of digital video in the creation of linear & non filmic art.

Participated in numerous group shows around Austin. ProJex's Nude Work 2000 & 2001 & Gallery Lombardy's Erotica 2001 as well as having individual shows at F8 Gallery, DiverseArts Gallery and Debbie Peacock Gallery. Really broke out with "GET" show at Wet Salon & Studios in which r/ace sold numerous works causing Austin art critic Michael Barns to the Austin American Statesman "r/ace is one of the best of Austin's sensually charged artists"

Not to be limited to one-dimensional art, r/ace spread his wings by creating visuals behind such provocative musical artists as Laura Scarborough, Woodwork & Art-Metal savant Titsworth and his band Pail. The direction and camera work, respectively, of the latter's dark and sexy music videos "Birth", "Mindscar", "Youth" and 2006's released "Space Monkey", were embraced by the Austin Musical Network as some of the best local producer-directors of 00-2007. Gaining r/ace notoriety as a visualist director.

Also in the early '00's r/ace pioneered the process/concept of photographic painting, described here by Stacee Millangue of Austin's "Idea Gallery" as "...r/ace's, work like "Through Her" ...defines the possibilities of modern photography. His image of a female nude also contains several layers, looking similar to a ghostly colored x-ray. After taking several photos of his subject, he printed the film, purposefully over-exposing some parts, lightening and darkening others. He then digitally created a collage and added organic layer of wax and pigment."

Or as England based creative director Ali Hobb's is quoted as saying, "r/ace is a sensory genius"

r/ace curated and contributed to the deconstructing of the nude with "Contour" featuring painting and mixed media works at WET Salon & Studios in March. He had his second collection of prose released by DiverseArts Press entiteled "Sonambulo" in June, and then collaborated with choreographer Ellen Bartel, composer Graham Reynolds and digital media artist Buck Wall on "Sonambulo" (the malti-media dance concert) based on his book which was performed at Austin's Off Center in July of 2004.

In 2005 r/ace began his on going working relationship with Mark Yu of www.thejadegate.com. Yu a master japanese Shibari rope binder has helped to influance r/ace work towards more overt erotica.

Also in '05 r/ace started the "She Rocks" Calendar which was a celebration of the rockin', in both music and attitude, women of the Austin music scene. It continues today with biz partner Deanna Marie of "Velvet Brick" Making the calendar a yearly collectable of the Austin scene.

(see www.myspace.com/sherocksaustin )

r/ace is presently continuing to plumb the depths of his and our psyche with perversions of light and form via lense and print.

"I'm attemping to haunt you with yourself" r/ace '04.

Complied and written by Harold McMillan of DiverseArts Culture Works, with the help and consent of r/ace.