Born in San Francisco de Macoris, Dominican Republic

Since very little feel penchant for drawing and painting. His children grew up in the community of Villa La Mata, among trees, rivers and a close family to the spiritual values of God.

In 1985 he joined the School of Fine Arts in his hometown. In 1986 he moved to the capital of Santo Domingo, where he feels a tremendous attraction to the works of master Plutarco Andujar (1931-1994), which then would be its most outstanding disciple.

His creations have traveled between rupture and continuity of his work marine anchored in a deep and large painting aesthetic and spiritual content.

He has participated in over thirty exhibitions and individual competitions, both at home and abroad. It has six beds. At present the most important exhibition is a joint. Caribbean Dream Tribute to Roberto Carlos, with songs painted series, which will be taken to the Museum of Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, an event unprecedented in the history of regional arts where the artist has captured, the transcendent success carioca singer.

His works are in collections, both public and private, at home and abroad.

Studies.
1985, began his studies at the National School of Fine Arts, San Francisco de Macoris.
1987, Plutarch knows his master Andujar (1931-1994).
1994, travels to Havana, during the Second Contemporary Art in the Third World, the Centro Wifredo Lam.

INDIVIDUAL.
1991, Metamorphosis of a Discovery. Hostal Nicolas de Ovando, Santo Domingo.
1996, Appeal, Club Naco, Santo Domingo.
1996, Transmutation, Museo del Hombre Dominicano, Santo Domingo.
2000, Report of Sleep Caribbean Guayasamín House, Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo.
2001, Painted songs, a tribute to Roberto Carlos, Guayamin House, Santo Domingo.
2004, Innocence Caribbean, home of Spain, Santo Domingo.
2004, Virgin Caribbean, Hotel V Centenario, Sto. Dgo.
2005, Memories, dedicated to the master Plutarco Andujar, Eduardo Galeria de La Romana.
2007, Virgin Tropical, Eduardo Galeria La Romana, Dominican Republic

COLLECTIVE.
1989, Master and Noves, exhibition by various U.S. cities, organized by the Board of Education of New York.
1989, Art Centre Hostal Nicolas de Ovando, Santo Domingo.
1990, Art Biennial E. Leon Jimenez, Cultural Center of Santiago and Casa de Bastidas, Santo Domingo.
Marginal Biennial, sector of Santa Barbara, Santo Domingo.
1992, The Landscape Dominican to be not perish, Casa de Bastidas, Santo Domingo.
1992, Duarte Visual, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Santo Domingo.
1994, Biennale E. Leon Jimenez, Plaza de la Cultura, Santiago and Casa de Bastidas, Santo Domingo.
1994, First Festival of Visual Arts, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo.
1997, II Festival of Visual Arts, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo.
2003, Museo de Bellas Artes Palace, Mexico City

CCOLECCIONES.
His works are in private collections in country and the United States, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, Sweden, Honduras, Spain, Finland and Panama



CRITICAL JUDGEMENT

Her dream is realized virtual seascape and enriched with new techniques such as resource input box, where there are fragmentary readings or specific consequences of a narrative flowing with a great social sensitivity, a deep love for family preservation and a contribution significantly to the island iconography.
By Virginia Goris, librarian, journalist and art critic.

Its rich chromaticism and calligraphy of his compositions declare a particular bill and an amazing atmosphere of unreal beauty, creating an inviting atmosphere of lyrical exaltation tempered with fine harmony of reds, purples, blues, greens and grays. The artist makes available to the viewer his eloquent strokes to the captivating magic of your images so that it can discover the enduring values of painting.
By Candido Geron.



What essentially distinguishes Pedro Pablo Mendez, is its visual memory, having written recreated those images, and to present a coherent and organized manner, reflected reality are seeing this painting combines the joy of song and visual presentation of the interpreted.

All paintings by Pedro Pablo Mendez, placental us: all human and have a social force, that force reflection, as a light beam, to the dark depths of our visual memory.
By José Saldaña, writer, historian, art critic, member of AICA.

In this exhibition Pedro Pablo Mendez, took the painting with responsibility of developing talent. Phenomenon that shows in his work as the sacral and symbolic entitled "Wounds that Heal," in which they express a significant drawing skills, hands imprinted in its symbolism reveals the energy that is capable of unleashing when he takes the line as language and means of expression associated with the structured composition of the painting.
For Abil Peralta, curator, art critic and member of AICA.

EXTENDED REVIEWS:

THE NATURAL AND TROPICAL. By José Saldaña (fragments)

This artist living in the tropics, who knows his colors and light, captures the beautiful and strong and bold realism, in which the job security you can address all sorts of topics with equal originality and skill.

A landscape that incorporates his trademark realism impressionist touch which does not emulate or compete with the exact representation of the elements that make up the subject of the work: trees, rivers or lakes, sea, sky, farm houses, fruit and the ubiquitous blue and green, and favorite colors dominate this artist.

His still lifes, seascapes and rural scenes provide a full picture of each billing exquisite images.
His canvases saturated with vivid colors of light and lush vegetation make his paintings come alive and splendor.
The correct composition, drawing clear and precise, impart quality to this painting also seems to enjoy themselves in the delicate texture of the marine and other work, ie landscapes, still lifes of flowers.
The work of Pedro Pablo Mendez, is steeped in serenity, balance, harmony.
But where else could highlight this artist is above all in the marine gentle tones that envelop the viewer in a sense d serenity, tranquility.
Mendez pictorial space achieved in various levels, but above all practical and colorful natural exercise of projecting the elements in the foreground, the boats is an excellent example of the landscape.
This artist and his deep sense of manners, find their source in the landscape of native vegetation, because it feels and try to interpret that reality. So while being a strong and vigorous painting is an optimistic work, sexy, soothing, easy to understand and interpret. El Nacional, Tuesday August 8, 1989

By Danilo Lasos (Excerpt)

The tones, the nuances, the inner harmony and internal balance that exists in the paintings of Pedro Méndez García, have been developed and designed as the search for a state of consciousness that expresses itself in the details, profiles, color masses and in the free and spontaneous expression of an artistic language as a manifestation of the soul of the painter in love with the spiritual life of man.
The systematic processing of chromatic elements, textures, drawing and composition, make the work of this artist an investigative search of pictorial discourse, as an adventure of the spirit of the painter in each box that makes an artistic contribution shows that He has an inexhaustible creator for their ability to make new items in each picture he paints.

Danilo Lasos, philosopher and Art Critics (AICA) 1996


By Amable Lopez Melendez

Pedro Pablo Méndez García (San Francisco de Macoris, 1965) is among groups of artists, from the second half of the 80's, have been nurturing a considerable sector of the national art market. He also produced a short stay at the School of Fine Arts, both in his hometown and in Santo Domingo, and known to its relationship with the painter Albert Bass and the art critic Humberto Soto Ricart. (Deceased)
However, it is from his encounter with Plutarco Andujar (1931-1995) in 1987, when this young artist is becoming the subject of fame and he estimated demand for his virtuosity in the seascapes.
* In Pedro Mendez have the best example of assimilation has been a Dominican artist in one of the great aspects of the skill with which the artist addressed the issue disappeared from the Navy.
* At a moment when its warm, transparent and idealized seascapes enjoy a host far exceeds the painters highly prized locally, Pedro Pablo Mendez decide to break the stereotype of the genre painting, to face a new search, as formal and thematic intent leads us to notice the turbulence of a free spirit who wants to and raise concern about the signs and original elements of a new personal visual universe.
Article Excerpt Amable López Meléndez (AICA)
Express magazine, Santo Domingo, August, 1999


BY: AB1L Omen (AICA)

I met him, being just a restless young artist, student and teacher passionate admirer Dominican Juan Plutarco Andujar (1931 - 1994), explorer magical mysteries of the sea and the bright and seductive beauty of the Caribbean mulatto woman.

In his capacity as a direct student of Master Andujar, Pedro Pablo Mendez became for some years in a genetic semantic models interpreter of his master, but his driver died, Mendez transited between the continuity of the trace and break, seeking their own alphabet, their own identity painting, trying to explore the gifts of your word in the paint.
The new production of Pedro Pablo Mendez is an eclectic whole semantic formulation is supported by the anxiety and memory of the fishermen in the seas of the Caribbean and the martyrdom of faith, hope cryptic symbols that projected to the viewer that takes art as an intimate act of emotional and spiritual reflection.

As a repertoire of his intimate and reflective vision of hope and faith Pedro Pablo Mendez also played with wit drama slogans referring to the hundreds of Dominicans who drown in the maze trying world of salt other worlds where man's anguish is reflected in the mirror and Fantasy of a new social live in prosperity ... those humble Dominicans who die with the fantasy of New York in his memory.
Its themes of fishermen make a thoughtful mystical world that in its structural display signs and meanings evoked own evocative and enigmatic world of magnetism that registers sharpest modern art. Caribbean Dreams Catalog, Altos de Chavon, July 2000

By VIRGINIA GORIS Librarian, Curator, arts journalist and critic. (AICA)
Plutarco Andujar, the paradigm of the beautiful sea, the perpetrator of the beauty of native mulataje of luminous sunsets and sunrises, Pedro Mendez is in a daring disciple who dwells on his unfathomable and fruitful source, moving his mark, but haunting at the same repeated until the artisanal and trivial, today added to its ultimate source more of their own, going to successfully start and take off his own visual language.
From "transmutation," his previous shows at the Museum of Dominican Man, rupture or evolution, or operator existential dilemma was, of course, open channels to a new figuration, which had a large load of his own mind, as a resident that half of the island, to serve as a point of thinking, doing a painting of deep spiritual content, and where a touch of hope is reflected in the epidermis transcendent narrative of his pieces. Its core thematic concern in his spiritual and mystical approach lies in the loving preference granted by the artist to the family unit, primary focus of the social and the snares that lurk in the present for its disintegration, as are irresponsible parenthood, the disparate goals of parents, the romance lost, illegal travel and a lack of love that leads an army of children shipwrecked home security and real castaways search for utopias that bring more than irreparable loss solutions and even international conflicts such as the migration of Haitians into the country, migration of Dominicans to Puerto Rico, and Cuban boat people to the costas.Ultima Time, September 2001


By Candido Geron
Escitor, poet, healer, diplomat and art critic

Pictorial personality helped cement the renowned master of the national art, Plutarco Andujar, superb artist brushstrokes and contrasting light.
In the career of his pupil, highlighting the technical assessment and chromatic influence of his teacher.

In his art the viewer is facing the growing world of the aesthetic beauty of form and color. It is indisputable the diversified and creative universe concoct this young artist, where life and spirit memorable show.''

... The viewer takes advantage of the dream visions, motives, thoughts turn to.
In his paintings, Pedro Pablo García Méndez recreates nature in an exciting way to offer a mosaic of Impressionism from the sea always poetic and impressionistic ....

.... The artist understands the painting as a sensory reason that way goes into lpo sectors of nature, allowing light to your images with a contrasting definition. His paintings clearly illustrate the beauty of the landscapes of the sea with suns, skies and moons, where the human drama is evident ....

... Its transparent ingenuity in marine issues, is leaving the viewer with a message of humanity, of struggle and drama as seen in his paintings''tribute to Plutarco Andujar ... / The Century Friday October 13, 2000. Contacts: In the Dominican Republic 809-533-1479 In USA 702-277-6227