Ricardo Acevedo Books

 All these pages are like appendages, they reach out to hold me. Words are like passersby on the street, some are truncated, others multiple syllables, sentences served up by all concerned. Being concerned is less your job as a review of your work. Here nothing edits, no one underlines, just rights and returns. To read the mind that forgets where it all started. - EYE STREET  

 A decade of images cataloguing the Night in all its adult twists and turns, realities & hallucinations… from Noir to Neon. The turbulent, furious nights of the ‘zeroes’ (1999 – 2010) were a gilded age in some ways in Austin Texas. Not so different from the previous century’s early days in its excesses and mix of hope and desperation. The players change, the styles change, though the story is a timeless one; and Ricardo Acevedo has bared it here. This 100 plus pages of photo-novella, nightlife shots, prose and photo-paintings, vividly capture a dark intimate now. 

 "Some people see life more vividly than others do, and what's exceedingly rare, always and forever. People who can transfer the stunning whole of their experience into an expression:that can be shared by others. What's never usual is someone who can capture the relentless kinetic miracle of existence in all its aspects ~ the urban and jagged, the natural and fabricated, the darling and delightful and debauched and destroyed ~ and bring those things to eyes formerly innocent of the glory and glamor, the triumphs and trash, that shine everywhere in this complex life. Ricardo Acevedo is one such artist, writer, photographer." ~ Wayne Alan Brenner Lead arts writer for the Austin Chronicle