Gerard Ellis’s “The Dominican Dream” opened at Lyle O. Reitzel Arte Contemporáneo (Torre Piantini, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) on October 15, 2026.
Description: Lyle O. Reitzel Arte Contemporáneo presents The Dominican Dream, a new exhibition by Gerard Ellis dedicated to one of the most powerful facets of our cultural imagination. Through the lens of baseball, Ellis constructs a visual universe where childhood, the neighborhood, family, ambition, and the desire to succeed all converge.
Gerard Ellis finds in baseball a language to explore identity, desire, and possibility. Through a lens that brings together hyperrealism, pop art, and various references from art history, he transforms scenes, objects, and figures from the world of baseball into images permeated with profound power and meaning.
Gerard Ellis was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in 1976. He studied at the National School of Fine Arts and the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. Ellis lives and works in Santo Domingo, DR.
Selected to be part of the “S-Files”, the 6th edition of the El Museo del Barrio Biennial in NY, 2011. Has been recognized with three Awards of Excellence by The Society of News Design. In 2007 was invited to be part of the IX edition of the Cuenca International Biennial, Ecuador. His work has been shown in the National Biennial of Visual Arts and the XX edition of the E. León Jimenes Art Contest (Biennial), where he received the Prize for painting, both in the Dominican Republic. Also, has participated with the Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery in various international contemporary art fairs such as VOLTA NY, Scope, Pinta, Arte BA and CIRCA.
He’s included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA, La Fundación Para La Pintura, Canarias, Spain, The Scott Latham Foundation, Rhode Island, Museo Casa Cortés, Puerto Rico, the Museum of Contemporary Drawing, Santo Domingo, The Dominican Congress and also in private collections in the Dominican Republic, United States, London, Miami, Spain, Panamá, Venezuela and Puerto Rico.
For more information on the galleries, see https://www.lorgallery.com/exhibitions#/the-dominican-dream/
Also see https://www.lorgallery.com/artists#/gerard-ellis/