Franck de Las Mercedes
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Franck de Las Mercedes, (b. 1972 in Masaya, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan American artist, based in New York. He was raised in a family of Nicaraguan folklore dancers, musicians and teachers, and spent his childhood immersed in the performing arts. In the mid-eighties, the Sandinista/Contra war forced Franck's family to immigrate to New York where Mercedes grew up and worked in music and theatre, studying under Gail Noppe-Brandon. In the late nineties he began working as an artist.
He has painted small boxes, called the Priority Boxes, labelled with the words "PAZ", "JUSTICIA," "TRANQUILIDAD," and "AMOR," which he sends around the world.[1] This mail art project started in 2006.
He is a subject of the film An Abstract Way of Life, a documentary by Cara Weiner on abstract painters. De Las Mercedes has been featured in national television and radio shows such as LatiNation, CNN en Español RADIO, Noticiero Telemundo and Aqui Y Ahora on Univision. He has also been featured in articles in several national and international publications like Nicaragua's La Prensa, Art Business News,American Style magazine,Reader's Digest's Selecciones and The Artist's Magazine. In 2007 Mercedes was invited by The Betty K Studio in New York to take part in an International Art Workshop led by teaching artists Olivier di Pizio and Gonzalo Belmonte of the Ateliers des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris.
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- [1] Franck de Las Mercedes's website
- [2] "An Abstract Way Of Life" An experimental documentary by Cara Weiner featuring four abstract artists exploring and exposing their creative expression. The Film features abstract artists Franck de Las Mercedes, Ted Minchin, Dianne Leon-Ferdico and Doris Weiner.
