Federico Uribe: Beyond Unreal, Part I David= D  Federico= F D     What’s your favorite object to use? The colored Pencil? F     I always  wanted to be a painter. I just wasn’t the painter I wanted to be. Colored pencils are essentially lines of color that you can make in any size. So essentially it’s a […]

David= D  Federico= F D     What was it like growing up in Colombia? F     The fact that it was in Colombia or the fact that I was growing up? D     Let’s say the environment. F     I spent a large part of my childhood, about half, in my grandfather’s farm and the rest of it in […]

Last Saturday, December the 7th, Pork Belly Times attended the opening of Federico Uribe’s “Realm of the Unreal” at Now Contemporary Art in Wynwood. Uribe, a native Colombian, uses common objects to create incredible figures, animals mostly, with a level of craftsmanship that is simply amazing. The Realm of the Unreal is truly unreal, Uribe […]