Poli Marichal

Poli Marichal (born February 1, 1955, Ponce, Puerto Rico) Marichal has also taught printmaking classes in New York City and California.

Partial filmography Underwater Blues (1981), "Hand painted, scratched animated Super 8 film examining the contradictions of the psychopathology of colonization." Al Rojo Vivo (1982), "This work recreates the spirit of frustration and is the result of scratching and painting the tiny super 8 mm frame without magnification. The soundtrack was performed with a percussion instrument and voice." Guernica (1982), "Experimental Super 8 film featuring animated 3-D puppets based on the characters in Picasso’s painting." Blues Tropical (1983), "First part of the Trilogy of the Island in which Poli Marichal expresses and vents the anger and frustration caused by the colonial situation." Isla Postal (1984), "Hand painted, scratched Super 8 film meditating on Puerto Rico’s political status through the layering of traditional Bomba music and governmental speeches." Coffee Break (1987), "Experimental film which incorporates a range of materials, ink, coloring pencils, watercolors, and graphite, to narrate the story of a woman who is transformed into a cat while she drinks the celebrated beverage of the island, coffee." Los espejísmos de Mandrágora Luna (1987). Mexican Fine Arts Museum, Chicago, Illinois Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico The University of Puerto Rico Museum of Anthropology, History and Art, Puerto Rico Institute for Latino Studies University of Notre Dame, Indiana Galería Sin Fronteras, Austin, Texas The Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, New York Donald C. Davidson Library at the University of Santa Barbara Vincent Price Art Museum, California Laguna Art Museum, Orange County Art Museum, California Huntington Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Texas Colección Reyes-Veray, San Juan, Puerto Rico