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PUBLICATIONS
ON ART
[All listings in chronological order.]
Art Criticism (Books & Major Exhibition Catalogues):
Dirube, Madrid: ALA Art Editions & Editorial Playor, 1979. Covers the work of Cuban sculptor, painter and graphics artist, Rolando López Dirube. Bilingual edition, English and Spanish.
David Manzur, Bogotá: Seguros Bolívar, 1981. Spanish texts. One of four essays; others by Germán Rubiano Caballero, José Gómez-Sicre and Mario Rivero. Covers the work of Colombian painter, David Manzur. Bilingual edition, English and Spanish.
Rogelio Polesello, Buenos Aires: Ediciones Gaglianone, 1984. First monograph on Argentinean painter and sculptor, Rogelio Polesello. Spanish-language edition.
Rafael Coronel, Palm Springs: B. Lewin Galleries, 1987. Introductory text, "Rafael Coronel: The Imagery of Time." English-language edition.
Clarence Holbrook Carter, New York: Rizzoli, 1989. With Frank Trapp and Douglas Dreishpoon, covering the life work of North American painter, Clarence Carter. English-language edition.
Outside Cuba/Fuera de Cuba, book-length catalogue to exhibition of same name which opened at the Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, on March 24, 1987 and traveled the U.S. and Puerto Rico until April, 1989. Catalogue was published jointly by Rutgers University and the University of Miami in 1989. The major catalogue text is titled "Identity and Variations: Cuban Visual Thinking in Exile since 1959." The exhibition and the catalogue survey Cuban émigré art since 1960. Texts are in English and Spanish. The catalogue also contains color and black and white reproductions of works by the 48 artists included in the exhibition. Bilingual edition, English and Spanish.
Humberto Calzada, Miami: Bass Museum of Art, 1991. Monograph on the Cuban-born painter, Humberto Calzada. Served as book-length catalogue of his retrospective at the Bass Museum. Opened October 3, 1991, ran through November 10, 1991.
Fernando de Szyszlo, Bogotá: Ediciones Alfred Wild, 1991. With Mario Vargas Llosa, Ana María Escallón, and Judith Alanis, surveying the work of this Peruvian painter and sculptor. English-language edition.
Rafael Soriano: The Poetics of Light, Miami: Ediciones Habana Vieja, 1998. The first monograph on this Cuban painter.
Olga de Amaral: el manto de la memoria, "La música del ojo o el surgimiento del objeto taumatúrgico," Bogotá: Ediciones Zona & Seguros Bolívar, 2000. In Spanish with separata containing English-language translation of all texts.
Gustavo Acosta: 1994-2004, "The Rhetoric of Enigma: An Approach to the Paintings of Gustavo Acosta," Buenos Aires: Ediciones Arte al Día, 2004.
Nicolás Leiva: The Fire of Self and Multiplication, Coral Gables: Gary Nader Editions, 2005.
Hugo Consuegra, “Dwelling in Passing,” Miami: Ediciones Universal, 2007.
Articles on Art in Magazines and Newspapers:
[Text in language of the article title.]
"Three Mexican Painters: Rufino Tamayo, Carlos Mérida, and José Luis Cuevas," The Miami Herald, Lively Arts, July 6, 1975.
"The Artist in Exile: Cundo Bermúdez, José Mijares, Baruj Salinas, and Rafael Soriano," The Miami Herald, Lively Arts, August 31, 1975.
"Identidad Nacional en las artes plásticas de México y el Caribe," Vanidades Continental, Libro Especial, Diciembre, 1978.
"La poesía norteamericana y sus lecciones: Richard Wilbur, Richard Eberhart y John Ciardi," Vanidades Continental, Libro Especial, Diciembre, 1978.
Review of Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, in Caribbean Review, October-December, 1978, Vol.7, No.4.
"Art in Exile," Américas, August, 1980, Vol.32, No.8.
"Man and Nature in Central American Painting," Caribbean Review, Winter, 1981, Vol.10, No.1.
"Dirube y el Desarrollo de una Esfera," El Nuevo Día, San Juan, Domingo, Mayo 17, 1981.
"Rolando Dirube: Reflections in an Unseeing Eye," Américas, March, 1981, Vol.33, No.3.
"Mijares y el barroco cubano," El Miami Herald, Galería, Septiembre 6, 198l.
"Orígenes del arte moderno en Cuba," El Miami Herald, Galería, Octubre 4, 198l.
"El desarrollo de las artes plásticas en Cuba," El Miami Herald,
Galería, Octubre 25, 1981.
"David Manzur y las leyendas del sueño," El Miami Herald, Diciembre 27, 1981.
"Rafael Soriano," Hombre de Mundo, Noviembre, 1981, Vol.6, No.11.
"Nuevos grabados de Dirube," Plástica, Julio, 1981, No.7.
"La fruta en el arte latinoamericano," GeoMundo, Junio, 1982.
"La arquitectura en el arte latinaomericano," Hombre de Mundo, Junio, 1982.
From 1982-1984 contributed as an art critic to Vanidades Continental, with a regularly appearing section. Articles in this section have been on Jesús Soto, Fernando Botero, Enrique Castro-Cid, José A. Velázquez, Clarence Carter, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Lew Wilson, Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Haitian art, Alejandro Obregón, Humberto Calzada, Rogelio Polesello, Juan Carlos Liberti, Julio Rosado del Valle, Enrique Gay García, Grove Isle Sculpture Garden and other subjects.
"La navidad en el arte europeo," GeoMundo, Diciembre, 1982.
"El Museo Tamayo," GeoMundo, Octubre, 1982.
"Stairs and Ovoids: Symbols of Symbols in Clarence Carter's Art," Arts Magazine, September, 1982, Vol.57, No.1.
"El combate en el arte latinoamericano," Hombre de Mundo, Enero, 1983.
"In Light's Dominion: The Art of Rafael Soriano," Caribbean Review, Summer, 1982, Vol.11, No.3.
"Botero and the New Folklore," Art International, July-August, 1983, Vol.36, No.3.
"Landscape and Temporality in Central American and Caribbean Painting," Art International, January-March, 1984, Vol.27, No.1.
"Oswaldo Vigas y su labor creativa," GeoMundo, número especial sobre Venezuela, Octubre, 1983.
"Image du Bâti," Connaissance des Arts (French), Fev., 1984, No.384.
"Latin America's Oneiric Art: The Dream as Thought," Dreamworks, Vol.3, No.4, 1983-84.
"On Latin American Art," Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring, 1984, Vol. 23, No.2.
"La nueva pintura de Mario Bencomo," La Estrella, Panamá, Marzo 15, 1984.
"Calzada's Architecture of Memory," Caribbean Review, Vol.13, No.2.
"Las esculturas de Gay García," El Miami Herald, Galería, Julio 29, 1984.
"La vera arte latinoamericana," (Italian), Terzo Occhio, No.36, Sept, 1985.
"Abstraction and Representation: Julio Rosado del Valle's Visual Innocence," Caribbean Review, Vol.14, No.4, Fall, 1985.
"The Art of Castro-Cid and the Transcendence of Will," New Orleans Review, Vol.13, No.1, Spring, 1986.
"The Dream of Order: Four Approaches to Identity and Flux in Art," focusing on the works of Clarence Carter, Humberto Calzada, Christopher Mangiaracina, and José Luis Cuevas. Dreamworks, Vol.4, No.5, 1984-85.
"Artists Lead Dade to Cultural Fusions," The Miami News, January 1, l986, 11-A.
"The Dreamt Objectivities of Maria Brito-Avellana," Dreamworks, Vol.5, No.2, 1986-87.
"Latin Americanism," focusing on Latin American artists living in Miami. Interview, September, 1986, Vol. 16, No.9.
"Painters of Time," focusing on Latin American painters such as Rufino Tamayo, Roberto Matta, Frida Kahlo, Rafael Soriano, Joaquín Torres-García, et al, Art International, Vol.1, No.1, Autumn, 1987.
"Carlos Alfonzo: The Textuality of Painted Surfaces," Caribbean Review, Vol.l6, No. l, Spring, 1988.
"Miami: Glass Dragonfly," focusing on six Miami artists: Carlos Alfonzo, Humberto Calzada, Enrique Castro-Cid, Christine Federighi, Christopher Mangiaracina and Purvis Young, Art International, Vol.1, No.5, Winter 1988.
"A Convergence of Visual Cultures," dealing with Clarence Carter, Antonio Amaral, Marta Minujín, Paul Sierra, Francisco Toledo and Tobi Kahn, Art International, No.6, Spring, 1989.
"¿Quién es un exiliado?" (Who is an Exile?) El Nuevo Herald (Miami), June 17, 1989, p.10-A.
"Cuban-American Artists of the Eighties," Cuban Heritage, Florida International University, Vol.3, No.1, Spring, 1990.
"Costa Rican Art and the Latin American Visual Imagination," Caribbean Review, Vol. 16, Nos. 3 & 4, Summer, 1990.
"The Legacy of Torres-García: Latin America's Magical Realism," Art International, dealing with Joaquín Torres-García, Agustín Fernández, Fernando de Szyszlo, Ana Isabel Martén, and Arnaldo Roche Rabell. No. 12. Fall, 1990.
"The Paintings of Adriano Lambe and Julio Antonio," La Bête, Vol. 1, No. 1, November, 1990.
"Letter from Venezuela," Art International, No. 13, Winter 1991.
"The Oasis of the Infinite: Rafael Soriano and Enrique Castro-Cid," Drawing, Vol. 12, No. 5, January-February, 1991.
"Cuban Art in South Florida," Cuban Exiles in Florida: Their Presence and Contribution, ed. Antonio Jorge and Jaime Suchlicki, University of Miami, North-South Center, 1991.
"The Art of Being in Exile," article on Miami visual artists, Apalachee Quarterly, Exile Issue, No. 38, Fall 1992.
"Light and Time in Víctor Chab's Paintings," Arte al Día (Buenos Aires), Vol. 13, No. 45, August 1992, English text with Spanish trans.
"Latin American Art: Surviving Distortion," Drawing, Vol. 14, No. 4, Nov.-Dec. 1992.
"Von Dangel: A Luxurious Debate with Death," Art Papers Vol. 17, No. 2, April 1993.
"Víctor Valera," El Universal (Caracas), March 28, 1993, p. 4-4.
"Szyszlo y el Prisma del Tiempo/ Szyszlo and the Prism of Time," Arte al Día (Buenos Aires), Año 14, August 1993, English text with Spanish trans.
"The Times of Our Lives: Two Latin American Sculptors--Agustín Cárdenas & Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar," Planet (Wales, UK), No.101, October 1993.
"El Tiempo en la Obra de Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar," El Universal (Caracas), Feb 27. 1994.
"Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar: Homenaje a los Artífices Precolombinos," Arte Internacional (Bogotá), No. 19, May 1994.
"Luisa Richter: Viaja a la Insularidad," Arte Internacional (Bogotá), No. 20, Julio-Sept 1994.
"Strangers at Hand: Miguel Von Dangel, José Bedia and Arnaldo Roche Rabell," Drawing, Vol. 16, No. 5, January-February 1995.
"The Loyal Dog of Dread: the Art of Ronald González," Art Papers, Vol. 20, No. 3, May/June 1996.
Regularly appearing reviews of South Florida art exhibitions, in (¡Exito! magazine, Miami, FL, starting on Sept. 20, 1995, to March 16, 1997.
"Karina Chechik: The Necessary Labyrinth," Art Papers, Vol. 20, No. 4, July/August 1996.
"Miguel Von Dangel," Sculpture, Vol. 15, No. 8, October 1996. [Included in Readings in Modern Latin American Art edited by Patrick Frank, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2004.]
Review of the Caracas Art Fair, Sculpture, Vol. 15, No. 9, November 1996.
"Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar," Sculpture, Vol. 15, No. 10, December 1996.
Review of Rubén Torres-Llorca solo exhibition at the Miami Art Museum, Sculpture, Vol. 16, No. 3, March 1997.
"The Before that Comes After: the Drawings of Juan José Molina," Drawing, Vol. 18, No. 4, Spring 1997.
"Jesús Soto: Feeling the Infinite," Sculpture, Vol. 16, No. 6, July/August 1997.
"Melquíades Rosario Sastre: Space as Body," Sculpture, Vol. 16, No. 7, September 1997.
"Enrique Renta: Point of View," Arte al Día (Buenos Aires), No. 72, Vol.19, November 1998, English text with Spanish trans.
"Ernesto Zaléz: Reverberation," Arte al Día (Buenos Aires), No. 72, Vol.19, November 1998, English text with Spanish trans.
"Arnaldo Roche Rabell: The Vortex of Life," Arte al Día (Buenos Aires), No. 88, Octubre 2001.
"Nicolás Leiva: Transformative Labyrinths," Soutward Art (Buenos Aires), Vol.2, No.5, Sep-Nov 2001.
"Carlos Ulloa: Body, Humor, and Other Systems," Sculpture, Vol. 21, No. 3, April 2002.
"Juan José Molina: The Body Comedy," Arte al Día (Buenos Aires), No. 90, March/April 2002.
“Nestor Alí Quiñones: Toward an Apollonian Expressionism,” Arte al Día (Buenos Aires), No. 107, February-March 2005.
“Melquíades Rosario Sastre: When Mastery Means Something,” Arte al Día (Buenos Aires), No. 108, April-May 2005.
Review of Melvin Martínez solo exhibition at Viota Gallery, San Juan, Arte al Día (Buenos Aires), No. 109, June-July 2005.
“The Journey of Shelter: An Approach to Rafael Gómez-Barros,” Arte al Día, No. 111, November 2005.
Review of Susana Lescano solo exhibiton at Alejandra Von Hartz Gallery, Miami, FL, Sculpture, Vol. 25, No. 8, October 2006.
Review of Nicolás Leiva solo exhibition at Church of San Guiseppe, Palazzo della Esposizione, Faenza, Italy, Sculpture, Vol. 26, No. 1, January-February 2007.
Texts in Art Exhibition Catalogues:
[Exhibition titles underlined; titles of texts in quotation marks]
Rolando Dirube, solo exhibition at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, Venezuela. November, 1978. Sculptures and drawings.
Rafael Soriano, Oil Paintings: 1977-1980, solo exhibition, DeArmas Gallery, Miami, FL. April, 1980. Paintings.
The Figure in Latin American Art, "The Figure in Modern Latin American Art," group exhibition, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL. January 22--March 1, 1981. Paintings.
Fernando Luís, Intrigantes y Fumadores, solo exhibition, DeArmas Gallery, Miami, FL. April 24--July 10, 1981. Paintings.
Gustavo Ojeda, "Ojeda and the Contours of the Real," solo exhibition, Pan-American Health Organization, Rotunda, Washington, DC. April, 1982. Paintings.
Rogelio Polesello, solo exhibition, Forma Gallery, Coral Gables, FL. February 4--March 2, 1983. Paintings and plexiglass sculptures.
Mario Algaze, Spirit of Place, solo exhibition, Gallery at Miami Dade Community College, North Campus, Miami, FL. October--November, 1983. Photographs.
Maria Martínez-Cañas, "Spatiality in the Photographs of Maria Martínez-Cañas," solo exhibition at the 4th Annual Fine Art Photography Exposition (AIPAD), New York, NY. November 3-6, 1983. Photographs.
Rogelio Polesello, solo exhibition, Museo de la Tertulia, Cali, Colombia. November--December, 1983. Paintings and sculptures.
Mario Bencomo, Insular Night: Invisible Gardens, "Bencomo's Spaces," Forma Gallery, Coral Gables, FL. February 17--March 13, 1984; Arteconsult Gallery, Panamá, March 13--April 10, 1984. Paintings.
Humberto Calzada, A World Within and Other Recent Paintings, "Calzada's A World Within," solo exhibition, Forma Gallery, Coral Gables, FL. May 18--June 20, 1984. Paintings.
César Trasobares, Quinceañeras Works, "Las Chaperonas," solo exhibition, Gallery at Miami Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, Miami, FL. June 8--July 26, 1984. Assemblages.
R. F. Buckley, Landscapes: A Sculptural Discourse, "The Discourse of Sculpted Form," solo exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery at Florida International University, Miami, FL. June 15--July 20, 1984. Sculptures.
Julio Rosado del Valle, New Forms of Figuration, group exhibition, Center for Interamerican Relations, New York, NY. November 13, 1984--January 17, 1985. Paintings.
Robert Thiele & Debbie Schneider, "Thiele's Creative Paradox" and "Schneider and the Texture of Time," two-artist exhibition, Gallery at Miami Dade Community College, North Campus, Miami, FL. January, 1985. Sculptures and paintings.
Christopher Mangiaracina & Scott Hartley, "Various Thoughts on Mangiaracina and Hartley," two-man exhibition, Moosart Gallery, Miami, FL. October, 1985. Paintings.
Emilio Sánchez, "An Approach to the Image of Architecture in Emilio Sánchez," solo exhibition, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL. April 10-28, 1985. Paintings.
Felix Angel, "Lines, Action, Planes," solo exhibition, Forma Gallery, Coral Gables, FL. April, 1985. Paintings and drawings.
New Traditions: Thirteen Hispanic Photographers, "Identifying the Links between Photography and Painting in Latin American Visual Thinking," group exhibition, New York State Museum, Albany, NY. October, 1986, touring the U.S. through 1989. Photographs.
Clarence Carter, "On Clarence Carter's Recent Paintings," solo exhibition, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Galleries, New York, NY. September, 1986. Paintings.
Maria Brito-Avellana, "Brito-Avellana: The Objectivity of the Imagination," solo exhibition, Gallery at Kennesaw College, Marietta, GA. April--May, 1987. Sculptures.
Arnaldo Roche Rabell, "Arnaldo Roche: The Poetics of Identity," solo exhibition, Cultural Center, Chicago, IL. September, 1987.
Ramiro Llona, "The Traditions of Abstract Reference: Ramiro Llona and Latin American Art," solo exhibition, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY. February 24--March 26, 1988. Paintings.
¡Mira! The Canadian Club Hispanic Art Tour III, 1988-89, "Latin American Aesthetics in North America: The "Hispanic" Artist and the Value of Legacy," group exhibition, opening at the Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA March 29, 1988 and touring the U.S. through 1989. Paintings, drawings, assemblages and photographs.
Fernando La Rosa, "The Images of Fernando La Rosa," solo exhibition at Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, May 28--June 25, 1988. Photographs.
Arnaldo Roche Rabell, "The Imagination as Dialogue in the Paintings of Arnaldo Roche," solo exhibition at the St. Louis Gallery of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO, June 15--August 14, 1988. Paintings.
Clarence Carter, "The Poetics of Representation in Clarence Carter," retrospective exhibition at Art Galleries, Lehigh University (Sept 22--Oct 30, 1988) and Payne Gallery, Moravian College (Oct. 14--Nov 11, 1988), Bethlehem, PA. Paintings and drawings.
Rocío Rodríguez, "The Poetry of the Figure in the Paintings of Rocío Rodríguez," solo exhibition at the McIntosh Gallery and the Arts Exchange, both in Atlanta, GA. March 18--April 15, 1989. Paintings.
Costa Rican Art Today: New Directions. "Costa Rican Art and the Latin American Visual Imagination," group exhibition of ten artists, Museo de Arte Costarricense, San José, Costa Rica, May, 1989. Paintings, assemblages, and sculptures.
Ronald González, "Among the Ruins of the Familiar: A View of Ronald González," solo exhibition at the Intar Gallery, New York, NY, March 27--May 4, 1990. Sculptures.
Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, "Ramírez Villamizar and Latin American Visual Thinking," solo exhibition, Galería Durbán, Caracas, Venezuela. May-June, 1990. Catalogue also contains texts by Carlos Silva, Federico Morais, and Marta Traba. Sculptures.
Paul Sierra, solo exhibition, Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA. June 14-28, 1990. Paintings.
Bocaracá, group exhibition of Costa Rican artists at the Colegio Internacional SEK, Costa Rica, June, 1990. Paintings, assemblages, and sculptures.
Agustín Cárdenas, solo exhibition at Galería Durbán, Caracas, August--September, 1990. Catalogue also includes texts by André Breton, Octavio Paz, and Carlos Silva. Sculptures.
Humberto Calzada, solo exhibition, Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbour Island, FL, October, 1990. Paintings.
Pedro Barreto, "Pedro Barreto: A Dialogue of Elements," solo exhibition, Galería Durbán, Caracas, July-August, 1991. Catalogue also includes text by Carlos Silva. Sculptures.
Cundo Bermúdez, "Cundo Bermúdez and the Theatre of Painting," solo exhibition of paintings, Galería Durbán, Caracas, October--November, 1991.
Adonay Duque, "Adonay Duque and the Painting of Being," solo exhibition, Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, February 1992. Paintings.
Luís Lizardo, "Between Terrain and Garden: The Paintings of Luís Lizardo," solo exhibition, Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, March 1992. Paintings.
Fernando de Szyszlo, Fernando de Szyszlo: Las Puertas de la Noche, 1967-1992, "Szyszlo: La Originalidad de un Pensador," retrospective solo exhibition, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, 1992 (traveled to other venues in Latin America). Catalogue published by Ediciones Alfred Wild, Bogotá, 1992. Paintings.
Rafael Soriano, "Soriano: Light as Utterance," solo exhibition, Gary Nader Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, August 1992. Paintings.
Humberto Castro, "Temporality and the Theatre of the Body," solo exhibition, Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, December 1992. Paintings.
Julio Antonio, "Self and the Hidden Spiral," solo exhibition, Galería Leonora Vega, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Art Miami Fair, January 1993. Paintings.
Florencio Gelabert, "Florencio Gelabert: Recent Sculptures," solo exhibition, Fred Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, January 1993. Sculptures.
Víctor Valera, "Víctor Valera," solo exhibition, Galería Durbán, Caracas, March-April, 1993. Sculptures.
Julio Antonio, Painting, Drawing, and Works on Paper 1992 Fellowships, "Julio Antonio," group exhibition, Southern Arts Federation, Atlanta, GA, Spring 1993.
Guillermo Trujillo, "Nuchos Modernos y Antiguos," Retrospective, Museo de Arte Moderno de Panamá, August 1993. Paintings.
Nicolás Leiva, "Nicolás Leiva: Enigma as Origin of Image," solo exhibition, Gary Nader Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, September 1993. Paintings.
Luís Medina, "The Theatre of Visual Thought: The Latin American Sensibility of Luís Medina," solo exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, November 1993. Photographs.
Melquíades Rosario, "Melquíades Rosario Sastre: Of Matter and Tropes," solo exhibition, Chase Manhattan Bank, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, March 1994. Sculptures.
Pablo Soria, "Pablo Soria: A Poetry of Intersections," solo exhibition, Meza Fine Arts, Coral Gables, FL, March 1994. Paintings.
Gloria Fiallo, "Gloria Fiallo: Tactics and Syntax," solo exhibition, Meza Fine Arts, Coral Gables, FL, November 1994. Paintings.
Julio Larraz, "Larraz et le sens epique de la vie," solo exhibition, Gallerie Vallois (Paris), May-July, 1995. Paintings.
Fernando de Szyszlo, "Szyszlo's Dwelling Rooms," solo exhibition "Habitación No. 23," Galería Durbán, Caracas (July 1995) & Durbán-Segnini Gallery, Miami, FL (Nov. 1995). Paintings.
Rafael Soriano, "Rafael Soriano: Light's Way," solo exhibition, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Sept 9--Nov 19, 1995. Paintings.
Pablo Soria, "Some Thoughts on Pablo Soria," solo exhibition, Meza Fine Arts, Coral Gables, FL, October 1995. Paintings and an installation.
Eva Jawerbaum, "Emergence as Creativity," solo exhibition, De Santi Gallery, Buenos Aires, June 1996. Prints and works on paper.
Olga de Amaral, Olga de Amaral: Nine Stelae and Other Landscapes, "The Nine Stelae of Olga de Amaral," solo exhibition, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA (traveling), September 1996--October 1997. Weavings.
Olga de Amaral, "En Torno a las Estelas," solo exhibition, "Olga de Amaral: Estelas," Galería Diners, Bogotá, August--November 1996. Weavings.
Hernán Dompé, "An Approach to Hernán Dompé," solo exhibition, "Hernán Dompé: Una Luz en el Cerro," Der Brucke Gallery, Buenos Aires, November 1996.
Rolando López Dirube, "Dirube: compromiso con el crear," solo exhibition, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, January--March 1997. Sculptures, paintings, drawings, prints.
Armando Morales, "Morales and Light" in solo exhibition, Gary Nader Fine Arts, Coral Gables, FL, April 1997. Paintings.
Gustavo López Armentía, "The Art of Finding Oneself Lost," solo exhibition, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires & Reece Galleries, New York, NY, May 1997. Paintings and sculptures.
Olga de Amaral, "Olga de Amaral: The Intimate Labyrinth of Surface," solo retrospective exhibition 1965-1996, Musée de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, Angers, France, fall 1997. Weavings and Woven Sculptures.
Jesús Rafael Soto. Soto Virtual, "Soto and the Self," solo exhibition, Galería Durbán, Caracas, Venezuela, June 29--Aug. 31, 1997. Sculptures and installations.
Brooke Alfaro. Cuando Nuestros Mundos se Cruzan. "Brooke Alfaro: Cuando Nuestros Mundos se Cruzan," solo exhibition, Galería Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, N.L., México, 1997.
Juan José Molina. En Blanco y Negro (In Black and White), solo exhibition, Galería Durbán, Caracas, Venezuela, May 17--June 20, 1998. Paintings and Drawings.
Elizabeth Cerejido. Escucho: Desnudos, "I Listen--Nudes by Elizabeth Cerejido," solo exhibition, Galería Municipal Pancho Fierro, Lima, Perú, Sept 7--Oct. 20, 1998, & Miami-Dade Community College Art Gallery, Kendall Campus, Feb 12-26, 1999, Miami, FL.
Ernesto Zaléz. El Oro de los Vicios. "Becoming: Zaléz" (Convirtiendo: Zaléz), solo exhibition, Galería Durbán, Caracas/ Durbán-Segnini, Miami, May 1999. Paintings and sculptures.
Tulio Romano. Lugares comunes. "The Complex Humor of Tulio Romano," Der Brucke Gallery, Buenos Aires, solo exhibition, 1999. Sculptures.
Melquiades Rosario. Botello Gallery, San Juan, solo exhibition, 1999. Sculptures.
Humberto Aquino, "The Liquid Stage: an Approach to Humberto Aquino," Retrospective Exhibition 1966-1999, Second Lima Art Biennial, Lima, Perú, Oct-Dec, 1999. Pedro de Osma Museum, Lima, April--May, 2000. Paintings and Drawings.
Humberto Castro, Humberto Castro: the Paris Years 1989-1999, "Body Tenses: the Art of Humberto Castro," survey of previous ten years of work, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, 2001.
Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, “Fraternos,” traveling exhibition, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, et al 2002-03.
Rubén Torres-Llorca, “Time, Ambiguity and Symbol in the work of Rubén Torres-Llorca,” solo exhibiton at Praxis International Art Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, 2006.
Luís Felipe Noé, “¿Qué? Noé,” solo exhibition at Galería Rubbers Internacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006.
Luisa Richter, “Manifiesto del Tiempo,” solo exhibiton at Galería de Arte Ascaso, Caracas, Venezuela, 2007.
Lectures, Conferences and Talks:
[In English, unless otherwise indicated.]
"The African Presence in Cuban Poetry and Painting," University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL. Lecture given as part of a conference on the relations between Christian and African religions and cultures in the Caribbean. Sponsored by the Department of Afro-American Studies and the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. June 1--3, 1978.
"Negrismo and Cuban Identity," lecture delivered as part of the seminar on Caribbean culture taught by Sir Philip Sherlock (Visiting Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida), Gainesville, FL. November 30, 1978.
"A Stylistic Approach to Contemporary Cuban Art," delivered at the First Congres of Dissident Cuban Intellectuals, Paris, France. April 10--12, 1979. Also delivered at the Symposium on Cuban Art and Literature in honor of Enrique Labrador Ruiz, Florida International University, Miami, FL. November, 1979.
"Luminescence in Four Latin American Painters: Roberto Matta, Jesús Soto, Manabu Mabe and Rafael Soriano," delivered at the Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Coral Gables, FL. February 5, 1981.
International observer at the Fifth San Juan Biennial of Latin American Graphics, May, 1981. Delivered two talks in Spanish, one on Rolando Dirube, the other on Roberto Matta, at the Museum of Art and History, San Juan, Puerto Rico. May l7, 198l.
"Art Criticism in Latin America," (in Spanish) delivered at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and "The Sign as a Motif in Latin American Art," at Altos de Chavón, La Romana, Dominican Republic. April 25--30, 1983.
"Metaphor and Metonymy in the Languages of Visual Thining in the Western Hemisphere," presented at the 17th Congress and 36th General Assembly of the International Association of Art Critics, Caracas, Venezuela. September 18--24, 1983.
"Luminosity in the Art of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean," delivered at the 24th National Art Education Association Convention of the United States Society for Education through Art (USSEA), Miami, FL. April 2, 1984.
"The Architectural Motif in Latin American Art," delivered as part of the Critics Lecture Series, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Other critics in the series were Eliza Rathbone, Sam Hunter, John Canaday, William Gerdts, Robert Hughes, and William Lieberman. April 18, 1985.
"The Dream in Contemporary Latin American Art," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. August 8, 1985.
"Dream Imagery in Latin American Painting," Vizcaya Museum, Miami, FL. October 17, 1985.
"Contemporary Argentine Art" and panel discussion on art of Pérez Celis (in Spanish), Centro Cultural--la Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina. August l5 and 23, 1985.
"Cuban Cultural Life During Hemingway's Years There (1940-1960)," delivered at the conference on Hemingway's Vision of War and Reconciliation, Boise State University, Idaho. March 6, 1986.
"Torres-García and the Roots of Modernism," delivered at the Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL. In conjunction with the Miami presentation of the international touring exhibition, Torres-García: Grid, Pattern, Sign. Lecture delivered September 21, 1986.
"Cuban Art and Artists in Miami," part of symposium on A Quarter Century of Cuban Exile Culture, Florida International University, Miami, FL. September 26, 1986.
"Recent Trends in Latin American Art," delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago. In conjunction with the exhibition Recent Latin American Drawings at the Art Institute. Lecture delivered
July 21 and 22, 1987.
"Cuban Art in Exile," Art Museum, Miami University, Oxford, OH. November 15, 1987.
"The Dream as Thought: An Approach to Latin American Oneiric Art," delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago. November 17, 1987.
"Latin American Art: An Historical Perspective," delivered at the Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL as part of Dialogue, Latin America, a symposium held in conjunction with the Miami presentation of The Art of the Fantastic in its national tour. Lecture delivered on January 30, 1988.
"Cuban Art Outside the Island since 1960," delivered at the National Library, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. November 26, 1987.
"An Overview of Latin American Art," delivered at the Walter Hill Auditorium, High Museum of Art, Atlanta. co-sponsored by the Atlanta College of Arts, Atlanta International School, and Casa Cultural Iberoamericna. March 25, 1988.
"Hispanic Art in the United States," delivered at the Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. March 3l, l988.
"Abstract Reference in Latin American Visual Thought," delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago. Focuses on the works of Joaquín Torres-García, Roberto Matta, Rogelio Polesello, Fernando de Szyszlo, Ramiro Llona, Elena Presser, Hernán Dompé, Mario Bencomo, and Enrique Castro-Cid. Delivered twice, on April 8 & 9, 1988.
Gallery lecture on Hispanic artists of the United States, in conjunction with the ¡Mira! III exhibition, The Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, June 12, 1988.
"The Infinite in Latin American Art," (in Spanish) delivered at the Museo de Arte Costarricense, San José, Costa Rica, on August 23, 1988. Focusing on the work of: Joaquín Torres-García, Rogelio Polesello, Alejandro Aróstegui, Gunther Gerzso, Marta Minujín, Roberto Matta, Fernando de Szyszlo, Rafael Soriano and Enrique Castro-Cid.
Lecture on Hispanic artists residing in Miami, in conjunction with ¡Mira! III at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, Sept 10, 1988.
"The Art of Clarence Carter," in conjunction with the Clarence Holbrook Carter retrospective, delivered at Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, Oct. 14, 1988.
Gallery talk, on Outside Cuba/Fuera de Cuba, at the Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL, October 19, 1988.
Participated in panel on Hispanic art in the United States and Latin American art, along with Inverna Lockpez, Liliana Porter and Rimer Cardillo, at the Museo del Barrio, New York City, in conjunction with the ¡Mira! Canadian Club Hispanic Art Tour III, May 4, 1989.
Participated in panel on "Hispanic Art in Perspective," Brooklyn Museum, June 18, 1989, with Luis Cancel, Shifra Goldman, Robert Storr, Susana Torruella Leval, Mary Jane Jacob and Nilda Peraza.
"Latin American Artists in South Florida," in conjunction with exhibition Latin American Artists of the Southeast Coastal Region, at the Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida, October 5, 1989.
"Representing the Infinite: Joaquín Torres-García, Roberto Matta, Enrique Castro-Cid, et al," The Art Institute of Chicago, January 9, 1990.
"The Importance of Representation in Latin American Art," (in Spanish), Centro de Bellas Artes, Maracaibo, Venezuela, January 27, 1990.
"Forms and Transformations in Latin American Art," as part of Drawing: Three Symposia, March 15-17, 1990, sponsored by the University of Florida, the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, and Santa Fe Community College. Talk dealt with Wifredo Lam, Rafael Soriano, Arnaldo Roche Rabell, Marta Minujín, Joaquín Torres-García, and Enrique Castro-Cid. Delivered at the Fine Arts Building Auditorium, University of Florida, March 16th.
Colloquium on painter and sculptor Oswaldo Vigas (in Spanish), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber, with Gaston Diehl and Carlos Silva, Caracas, Venezuela, November 8, 1990.
"An Introduction to Modern Cuban Art," part of symposium Cuba: Pearl of the Caribbean, at University of South Florida/St. Petersburg, Florida, February 21, 1991.
"Architectural Images in Latin American Art," Institute of Maya Studies, Museum of Science, Miami, FL, March 20, 1991.
"Contemporary Cuban Art," part of symposium on The State of Hispanic Fine Arts, University of Chicago, May 8, 1991.
Lecture on Humberto Calzada, in conjunction with a retrospective of his paintings which I curated, at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, October 20, 1991.
Lecture on Humberto Calzada and Fernando de Szyszlo and their place in contemporary Latin American Art, North Miami Center for Contemporary Art, October 26, 1991.
"Tropes and Continuity: Cuban Visual Thinking since the 1920's," as part of lecture series A Coat of Many Colors: An Introduction to Cuban Culture, Manatee Community College, South Campus in Sarasota, FL, January 27, 1992.
"Contemporary Art of Central America and the Caribbean," Kennesaw College, Marietta, GA, April 2, 1992.
Lecture and workshop to Dade County middle school teachers on the visual arts in Miami, Florida International University, Miami, FL, August 3, 1992.
"Introduction to Latin American Visual Thinking," Hollins College, Roanoke, VA, April 8, 1993.
"Lo Latinoamericano en el arte latinoamericano," Universidad Católica, Guayaquil, Ecuador, August 16, 1993.
"Temporality in the sculptures and installations of Ronald González and María Brito," Symposium Revelations/Revelaciones, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, November 6-7, 1993.
"A View of the Infinite in Latin American Art," McGill University, Montréal, December 3, 1993.
"Temporality in the sculptures of Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar," Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber, Feb 27, 1994.
"The Latin American sensibility of Melquíades Rosario," at the Chase Manhattan Bank, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, March 5, 1994.
"`Teatralidad' y referencias multiples en el arte latinoamericano," Jorge Luís Borges Auditorium, National Library, Buenos Aires, June 14, 1994.
"Latin American Art in South Florida," Symposium Los Latinos sponsored by Florida Humanities Council for the Florida Center for Teachers, Eckerd College, June 29, 1994.
"Tropos y sueños: representaciones oníricas en el arte latinoamericano" and "Lo infinito en el arte latinoamericano," Circolo Italiano de Buenos Aires, sponsored by the Fundación Proscenio, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 8 & 10, 1995.
"Impact of Cuban Exodus since 1959 on Miami art scene," part of "Contemporary American and Latin American Art in Miami," a week-long conference sponsored by Sotheby's, New York. Talk delivered at the Wolfsonian Institution, Miami Beach, FL, October 20, 1995.
"Theatricality in Latin American Visual Art" and "The Process by Which Visual Works of Art Influence the Conception and Execution of Literary Works of Art," as part of one-week residency, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, October 13 & 15, 1997.
"Enclosures and the Infinite--Geometry, the Figure and Habitation--in Contemporary Latin American Sculpture," 17th International Sculpture Conference, International Sculpture Center, Sheraton Hotel, Chicago, IL, May 10-23, 1998,
"El cuerpo como gesto y significación: un acercamiento a la fotografía de Elizabeth Cerejido," Corriente Alterna, Lima (Miraflores), Perú, September 9, 1998.
"Brooke Alfaro and His Place in Panamanian and Latin American Art," Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, September 19, 1998.
"Toward a Tropological Civilization in the Post-Multicultural Age," Creative Writing Plenary Address, Languaging 99 Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, March 3-7, 1999. Also delivered a talk on art criticism, focusing on Latin American art of the 20th century, and a solo poetry reading (see below).
"La imagen del espacio marginal: arte latinoamericano en Miami," Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber, in conjunction with the Feria Iberoamericana de Arte, Caracas, 8 July 1999.
"Continuidad en el arte cubano del exilio," Cuba: Cultura y Exilio, National Association of Cuban-American Educators, Miami, October 7-9, 1999 (see section on published Essays).
"El Miami posible: hacia una conciencia bihemisférica," Segunda Bienal de Arte de Lima, Museo de Arte, Lima, Perú, Oct. 26, 1999.
"Agustín Fernández and Latin American Art," Aroca Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, January 25, 2001.
"Continuity in Cuban Visual Thinking," Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, March 16, 2001.
"An Overview of Cuban Painting and Sculpture, mid-1920's to the Present," Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA, March 19, 2002.
Panel sobre “La Escultura,” con Melquíades Rosario Sastre, Dhara Rivera & Mariman Benítez, Puerto Rico Art Week, Viota Art Gallery, San Juan, P.R., Marzo 1, 2005.
“Cuban Cultural Survival in Exile: the Visual Arts,” lecture delivered at Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Stewart House, May 8, 2006, and also at ABRALIC Conference, State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, August 3, 2006.
Lecture on the work of Argentine painters, Marcelo Bordese and Miguel Ronsino, at the Fundación Alón, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 14, 2006.
"Lo latinoamericano en el arte de Costa Rica" (What is Latin American about Costa Rican Art?), Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo, San José, Costa Rica, November 17, 2006.
“The Achievement of Olga de Amaral,” on the featured artist at the Women in Textile Art Biennial, San José, Costa Rica, September 10-15, 2006.
Curatorial, Editorial and Advisory Activities:
Senior Editor, Art International (Lugano), 1983-85, and Contributing Editor for Latin America of the new Art International (Paris), 1988 and U. S. Editor 1991-92.
Co-curator, Outside Cuba/Fuera de Cuba, the most comprehensive survey of Cuban art organized in the United States since the April, 1944 exhibition "Modern Cuban Painters," at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. OC/FC presented works by 48 Cuban-born artists currently living outside the island. The exhibition included paintings, installations, photographs, sculptures, videos and assemblages. The other two curators of OC/FC were Inverna Lockpez and Ricardo Viera. The exhibition was organized by the Office of Hispanic Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, and opened at that University's Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum on March 24, 1987. OC/FC traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art in New York City, the Art Museum at Miami University of Ohio, the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico, the Center for the Fine Arts in Miami, and the College of Fine Arts in Atlanta. This tour ended in March, 1989.
Co-curator, ¡Mira! The Canadian Club Hispanic Art Tour III, 1988-89. Opened on March 29, 1988 at the Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, this exhibition traveled for approximately two years and visited the Meadows Museum in Dallas, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, the Terra Museum in Chicago, and the Museo del Barrio in New York City. (Mira! III included works by 29 Chicano, Cuban-American, Puerto Rican, and Latin American artists living in the United States. The other two curators of this exhibition were Inverna Lockpez and Susana Torruella Leval.
One of two United States advisors to the Fifth (1986) and Sixth (1988) Domecq Biennials of Latin American art, Mexico City.
Advisor and contributor on Cuban and Latin American art to the Dictionary of Art, a 34-volume encyclopedia of world art published by Macmillan Publishers, London in 1996.
Judge of the first Bienal Francisco Amighetti, San José, Costa Rica, sponsored by the Centro Cultural Costarricense Norteamericano, August 20-24, 1988.
Curator, Clarence Holbrook Carter: A Retrospective, Paintings at Payne Gallery, Moravian College (Oct 14--Nov 11, 1988) and Drawings at the Art Galleries, Lehigh University (Sept 22--Oct 30, 1988), both in Bethlehem, PA.
Co-curator of Costa Rican Art Today: New Directions, at the Museo de Arte Costarricense, sponsored by American Express, May, 1989. The other co-curators were Virginia Vargas, Director of the MAC, and Alvaro Zamora, art critic and historian. The exhibition travelled to the Art Gallery at the Wolfson Campus, Miami-Dade Community College, March--April, 1990.
Originator of the idea and Program Director of Miami and Its Images, the 1990 Distinguished Visiting Professor Series at Miami-Dade Community College, Kendall Campus. The Series gathered over 60 speakers and panelists from all over the U.S.--including Donald Justice, David Rieff, Charles Silberman, John Merrill, Dorothy Fields, Felix Morisseau-Leroy, Mercedes Sandoval, Nathan Glazer, Alejandro Portes, and Charles Willie--to discuss the image of Miami in the media, inter-ethnic relations, the history of the city, the psychology of exile, the myths and stereotypes that govern perceptions of the city, as well as the often ignored creativity of Miami's writers, musicians and visual artists. The Series ran from March 5-15, 1990.
Co-curator, with Miami-Dade Community College/Kendall Campus, Art Dept faculty, "Twenty-Five in Miami," an art exhibition, in conjunction with the Distinguished Visiting Professor Series Miami and Its Images. Art Gallery at Miami-Dade Community College, Kendall Campus, March 9-30, 1990.
Judge, with Francisco Castro Leñero and Perán Erminy, of the First Central American Contest in Painting, sponsored by the Instituto Hondureño de Cultura Interamericana, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, April 1-4, 1990.
Judge, with Jeanette Miller and Enrique García Gutiérrez, of the Primer Certamen Nacional de Artes Plásticas (First National Contest in the Visual Arts), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan; opened November 8, 1991.
Curator of the Humberto Calzada Retrospective at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, October-November, 1991. Condensed version of this exhibition traveled to Kennesaw College Art Galleries, Atlanta, GA, April 2--May 13, 1992.
"Soto in Chicago," text and presentation of video on Jesús Rafael Soto, produced by John Asencio, Fried Banana Productions, Chicago, for Galería Durbán, Caracas. Video produced in both English and Spanish for use in gallery and educational presentations.
One of twelve members of international panel allocating $50,000 awards to twelve artists in the Eco-Art exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2-30, 1992. This exhibition has drew major international attention as it traveled to various venues throughout the world. Other judges were Gilberto Chateaubriand, Geraldo Edson de Andrade, Angel Kalenberg, Thomas M. Messer, Maria Alice Milliet de Oliveira, Federico Morais, Diana Nemiroff, Carlos Silva, Rafael Squirru, Roberto Tejada, and Gloria Zea.
Member of selection committee chosing works for the Salón Arturo Michelena, Ateneo de Valencia, Valencia, Edo. Carabobo, Venezuela, June 1992. Other jurors were Juan Carlos Palenzuela, Pedro Barreto, Federica Palomero, and Luís Brito.
Curator, two simultaneous solo exhibitions, Cuban Museum of the Americas, Miami, FL: "Gloria Lorenzo: Cuerpos Extraños" ("Foreign Bodies," ceramic sculpture), and "Dita Sullivan: El Ultimo Día" ("The Last Day," color laser prints taken in Havana during the 1980's), January 10--March 20, 1997.
Curator, two simultaneous solo exhibitions of works and installations by José Bedia and Melquíades Rosario Sastre, First Lima Art Biennial, Lima, Perú, October--December, 1997.
Curator, solo exhibition of photographs by Elizabeth Cerejido, Galería Arte Municipal Pancho Fierro, Lima, Perú, October--December 1998.
Curator, solo exhibition/installation by Maria Brito, Second Lima Art Biennial, Lima, Perú, October--December 1999.
2002-2004, North American editor for the art magazine Southward Art, published in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
[All listings in chronological order.]
Art Criticism (Books & Major Exhibition Catalogues):
Dirube, Madrid: ALA Art Editions & Editorial Playor, 1979. Covers the work of Cuban sculptor, painter and graphics artist, Rolando López Dirube. Bilingual edition, English and Spanish.
David Manzur, Bogotá: Seguros Bolívar, 1981. Spanish texts. One of four essays; others by Germán Rubiano Caballero, José Gómez-Sicre and Mario Rivero. Covers the work of Colombian painter, David Manzur. Bilingual edition, English and Spanish.
Rogelio Polesello, Buenos Aires: Ediciones Gaglianone, 1984. First monograph on Argentinean painter and sculptor, Rogelio Polesello. Spanish-language edition.
Rafael Coronel, Palm Springs: B. Lewin Galleries, 1987. Introductory text, "Rafael Coronel: The Imagery of Time." English-language edition.
Clarence Holbrook Carter, New York: Rizzoli, 1989. With Frank Trapp and Douglas Dreishpoon, covering the life work of North American painter, Clarence Carter. English-language edition.
Outside Cuba/Fuera de Cuba, book-length catalogue to exhibition of same name which opened at the Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, on March 24, 1987 and traveled the U.S. and Puerto Rico until April, 1989. Catalogue was published jointly by Rutgers University and the University of Miami in 1989. The major catalogue text is titled "Identity and Variations: Cuban Visual Thinking in Exile since 1959." The exhibition and the catalogue survey Cuban émigré art since 1960. Texts are in English and Spanish. The catalogue also contains color and black and white reproductions of works by the 48 artists included in the exhibition. Bilingual edition, English and Spanish.
Humberto Calzada, Miami: Bass Museum of Art, 1991. Monograph on the Cuban-born painter, Humberto Calzada. Served as book-length catalogue of his retrospective at the Bass Museum. Opened October 3, 1991, ran through November 10, 1991.
Fernando de Szyszlo, Bogotá: Ediciones Alfred Wild, 1991. With Mario Vargas Llosa, Ana María Escallón, and Judith Alanis, surveying the work of this Peruvian painter and sculptor. English-language edition.
Rafael Soriano: The Poetics of Light, Miami: Ediciones Habana Vieja, 1998. The first monograph on this Cuban painter.
Olga de Amaral: el manto de la memoria, "La música del ojo o el surgimiento del objeto taumatúrgico," Bogotá: Ediciones Zona & Seguros Bolívar, 2000. In Spanish with separata containing English-language translation of all texts.
Gustavo Acosta: 1994-2004, "The Rhetoric of Enigma: An Approach to the Paintings of Gustavo Acosta," Buenos Aires: Ediciones Arte al Día, 2004.
Nicolás Leiva: The Fire of Self and Multiplication, Coral Gables: Gary Nader Editions, 2005.
Hugo Consuegra, “Dwelling in Passing,” Miami: Ediciones Universal, 2007.
Articles on Art in Magazines and Newspapers:
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"Three Mexican Painters: Rufino Tamayo, Carlos Mérida, and José Luis Cuevas," The Miami Herald, Lively Arts, July 6, 1975.
"The Artist in Exile: Cundo Bermúdez, José Mijares, Baruj Salinas, and Rafael Soriano," The Miami Herald, Lively Arts, August 31, 1975.
"Identidad Nacional en las artes plásticas de México y el Caribe," Vanidades Continental, Libro Especial, Diciembre, 1978.
"La poesía norteamericana y sus lecciones: Richard Wilbur, Richard Eberhart y John Ciardi," Vanidades Continental, Libro Especial, Diciembre, 1978.
Review of Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, in Caribbean Review, October-December, 1978, Vol.7, No.4.
"Art in Exile," Américas, August, 1980, Vol.32, No.8.
"Man and Nature in Central American Painting," Caribbean Review, Winter, 1981, Vol.10, No.1.
"Dirube y el Desarrollo de una Esfera," El Nuevo Día, San Juan, Domingo, Mayo 17, 1981.
"Rolando Dirube: Reflections in an Unseeing Eye," Américas, March, 1981, Vol.33, No.3.
"Mijares y el barroco cubano," El Miami Herald, Galería, Septiembre 6, 198l.
"Orígenes del arte moderno en Cuba," El Miami Herald, Galería, Octubre 4, 198l.
"El desarrollo de las artes plásticas en Cuba," El Miami Herald,
Galería, Octubre 25, 1981.
"David Manzur y las leyendas del sueño," El Miami Herald, Diciembre 27, 1981.
"Rafael Soriano," Hombre de Mundo, Noviembre, 1981, Vol.6, No.11.
"Nuevos grabados de Dirube," Plástica, Julio, 1981, No.7.
"La fruta en el arte latinoamericano," GeoMundo, Junio, 1982.
"La arquitectura en el arte latinaomericano," Hombre de Mundo, Junio, 1982.
From 1982-1984 contributed as an art critic to Vanidades Continental, with a regularly appearing section. Articles in this section have been on Jesús Soto, Fernando Botero, Enrique Castro-Cid, José A. Velázquez, Clarence Carter, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Lew Wilson, Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Haitian art, Alejandro Obregón, Humberto Calzada, Rogelio Polesello, Juan Carlos Liberti, Julio Rosado del Valle, Enrique Gay García, Grove Isle Sculpture Garden and other subjects.
"La navidad en el arte europeo," GeoMundo, Diciembre, 1982.
"El Museo Tamayo," GeoMundo, Octubre, 1982.
"Stairs and Ovoids: Symbols of Symbols in Clarence Carter's Art," Arts Magazine, September, 1982, Vol.57, No.1.
"El combate en el arte latinoamericano," Hombre de Mundo, Enero, 1983.
"In Light's Dominion: The Art of Rafael Soriano," Caribbean Review, Summer, 1982, Vol.11, No.3.
"Botero and the New Folklore," Art International, July-August, 1983, Vol.36, No.3.
"Landscape and Temporality in Central American and Caribbean Painting," Art International, January-March, 1984, Vol.27, No.1.
"Oswaldo Vigas y su labor creativa," GeoMundo, número especial sobre Venezuela, Octubre, 1983.
"Image du Bâti," Connaissance des Arts (French), Fev., 1984, No.384.
"Latin America's Oneiric Art: The Dream as Thought," Dreamworks, Vol.3, No.4, 1983-84.
"On Latin American Art," Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring, 1984, Vol. 23, No.2.
"La nueva pintura de Mario Bencomo," La Estrella, Panamá, Marzo 15, 1984.
"Calzada's Architecture of Memory," Caribbean Review, Vol.13, No.2.
"Las esculturas de Gay García," El Miami Herald, Galería, Julio 29, 1984.
"La vera arte latinoamericana," (Italian), Terzo Occhio, No.36, Sept, 1985.
"Abstraction and Representation: Julio Rosado del Valle's Visual Innocence," Caribbean Review, Vol.14, No.4, Fall, 1985.
"The Art of Castro-Cid and the Transcendence of Will," New Orleans Review, Vol.13, No.1, Spring, 1986.
"The Dream of Order: Four Approaches to Identity and Flux in Art," focusing on the works of Clarence Carter, Humberto Calzada, Christopher Mangiaracina, and José Luis Cuevas. Dreamworks, Vol.4, No.5, 1984-85.
"Artists Lead Dade to Cultural Fusions," The Miami News, January 1, l986, 11-A.
"The Dreamt Objectivities of Maria Brito-Avellana," Dreamworks, Vol.5, No.2, 1986-87.
"Latin Americanism," focusing on Latin American artists living in Miami. Interview, September, 1986, Vol. 16, No.9.
"Painters of Time," focusing on Latin American painters such as Rufino Tamayo, Roberto Matta, Frida Kahlo, Rafael Soriano, Joaquín Torres-García, et al, Art International, Vol.1, No.1, Autumn, 1987.
"Carlos Alfonzo: The Textuality of Painted Surfaces," Caribbean Review, Vol.l6, No. l, Spring, 1988.
"Miami: Glass Dragonfly," focusing on six Miami artists: Carlos Alfonzo, Humberto Calzada, Enrique Castro-Cid, Christine Federighi, Christopher Mangiaracina and Purvis Young, Art International, Vol.1, No.5, Winter 1988.
"A Convergence of Visual Cultures," dealing with Clarence Carter, Antonio Amaral, Marta Minujín, Paul Sierra, Francisco Toledo and Tobi Kahn, Art International, No.6, Spring, 1989.
"¿Quién es un exiliado?" (Who is an Exile?) El Nuevo Herald (Miami), June 17, 1989, p.10-A.
"Cuban-American Artists of the Eighties," Cuban Heritage, Florida International University, Vol.3, No.1, Spring, 1990.
"Costa Rican Art and the Latin American Visual Imagination," Caribbean Review, Vol. 16, Nos. 3 & 4, Summer, 1990.
"The Legacy of Torres-García: Latin America's Magical Realism," Art International, dealing with Joaquín Torres-García, Agustín Fernández, Fernando de Szyszlo, Ana Isabel Martén, and Arnaldo Roche Rabell. No. 12. Fall, 1990.
"The Paintings of Adriano Lambe and Julio Antonio," La Bête, Vol. 1, No. 1, November, 1990.
"Letter from Venezuela," Art International, No. 13, Winter 1991.
"The Oasis of the Infinite: Rafael Soriano and Enrique Castro-Cid," Drawing, Vol. 12, No. 5, January-February, 1991.
"Cuban Art in South Florida," Cuban Exiles in Florida: Their Presence and Contribution, ed. Antonio Jorge and Jaime Suchlicki, University of Miami, North-South Center, 1991.
"The Art of Being in Exile," article on Miami visual artists, Apalachee Quarterly, Exile Issue, No. 38, Fall 1992.
"Light and Time in Víctor Chab's Paintings," Arte al Día (Buenos Aires), Vol. 13, No. 45, August 1992, English text with Spanish trans.
"Latin American Art: Surviving Distortion," Drawing, Vol. 14, No. 4, Nov.-Dec. 1992.
"Von Dangel: A Luxurious Debate with Death," Art Papers Vol. 17, No. 2, April 1993.
"Víctor Valera," El Universal (Caracas), March 28, 1993, p. 4-4.
"Szyszlo y el Prisma del Tiempo/ Szyszlo and the Prism of Time," Arte al Día (Buenos Aires), Año 14, August 1993, English text with Spanish trans.
"The Times of Our Lives: Two Latin American Sculptors--Agustín Cárdenas & Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar," Planet (Wales, UK), No.101, October 1993.
"El Tiempo en la Obra de Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar," El Universal (Caracas), Feb 27. 1994.
"Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar: Homenaje a los Artífices Precolombinos," Arte Internacional (Bogotá), No. 19, May 1994.
"Luisa Richter: Viaja a la Insularidad," Arte Internacional (Bogotá), No. 20, Julio-Sept 1994.
"Strangers at Hand: Miguel Von Dangel, José Bedia and Arnaldo Roche Rabell," Drawing, Vol. 16, No. 5, January-February 1995.
"The Loyal Dog of Dread: the Art of Ronald González," Art Papers, Vol. 20, No. 3, May/June 1996.
Regularly appearing reviews of South Florida art exhibitions, in (¡Exito! magazine, Miami, FL, starting on Sept. 20, 1995, to March 16, 1997.
"Karina Chechik: The Necessary Labyrinth," Art Papers, Vol. 20, No. 4, July/August 1996.
"Miguel Von Dangel," Sculpture, Vol. 15, No. 8, October 1996. [Included in Readings in Modern Latin American Art edited by Patrick Frank, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2004.]
Review of the Caracas Art Fair, Sculpture, Vol. 15, No. 9, November 1996.
"Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar," Sculpture, Vol. 15, No. 10, December 1996.
Review of Rubén Torres-Llorca solo exhibition at the Miami Art Museum, Sculpture, Vol. 16, No. 3, March 1997.
"The Before that Comes After: the Drawings of Juan José Molina," Drawing, Vol. 18, No. 4, Spring 1997.
"Jesús Soto: Feeling the Infinite," Sculpture, Vol. 16, No. 6, July/August 1997.
"Melquíades Rosario Sastre: Space as Body," Sculpture, Vol. 16, No. 7, September 1997.
"Enrique Renta: Point of View," Arte al Día (Buenos Aires), No. 72, Vol.19, November 1998, English text with Spanish trans.
"Ernesto Zaléz: Reverberation," Arte al Día (Buenos Aires), No. 72, Vol.19, November 1998, English text with Spanish trans.
"Arnaldo Roche Rabell: The Vortex of Life," Arte al Día (Buenos Aires), No. 88, Octubre 2001.
"Nicolás Leiva: Transformative Labyrinths," Soutward Art (Buenos Aires), Vol.2, No.5, Sep-Nov 2001.
"Carlos Ulloa: Body, Humor, and Other Systems," Sculpture, Vol. 21, No. 3, April 2002.
"Juan José Molina: The Body Comedy," Arte al Día (Buenos Aires), No. 90, March/April 2002.
“Nestor Alí Quiñones: Toward an Apollonian Expressionism,” Arte al Día (Buenos Aires), No. 107, February-March 2005.
“Melquíades Rosario Sastre: When Mastery Means Something,” Arte al Día (Buenos Aires), No. 108, April-May 2005.
Review of Melvin Martínez solo exhibition at Viota Gallery, San Juan, Arte al Día (Buenos Aires), No. 109, June-July 2005.
“The Journey of Shelter: An Approach to Rafael Gómez-Barros,” Arte al Día, No. 111, November 2005.
Review of Susana Lescano solo exhibiton at Alejandra Von Hartz Gallery, Miami, FL, Sculpture, Vol. 25, No. 8, October 2006.
Review of Nicolás Leiva solo exhibition at Church of San Guiseppe, Palazzo della Esposizione, Faenza, Italy, Sculpture, Vol. 26, No. 1, January-February 2007.
Texts in Art Exhibition Catalogues:
[Exhibition titles underlined; titles of texts in quotation marks]
Rolando Dirube, solo exhibition at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, Venezuela. November, 1978. Sculptures and drawings.
Rafael Soriano, Oil Paintings: 1977-1980, solo exhibition, DeArmas Gallery, Miami, FL. April, 1980. Paintings.
The Figure in Latin American Art, "The Figure in Modern Latin American Art," group exhibition, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL. January 22--March 1, 1981. Paintings.
Fernando Luís, Intrigantes y Fumadores, solo exhibition, DeArmas Gallery, Miami, FL. April 24--July 10, 1981. Paintings.
Gustavo Ojeda, "Ojeda and the Contours of the Real," solo exhibition, Pan-American Health Organization, Rotunda, Washington, DC. April, 1982. Paintings.
Rogelio Polesello, solo exhibition, Forma Gallery, Coral Gables, FL. February 4--March 2, 1983. Paintings and plexiglass sculptures.
Mario Algaze, Spirit of Place, solo exhibition, Gallery at Miami Dade Community College, North Campus, Miami, FL. October--November, 1983. Photographs.
Maria Martínez-Cañas, "Spatiality in the Photographs of Maria Martínez-Cañas," solo exhibition at the 4th Annual Fine Art Photography Exposition (AIPAD), New York, NY. November 3-6, 1983. Photographs.
Rogelio Polesello, solo exhibition, Museo de la Tertulia, Cali, Colombia. November--December, 1983. Paintings and sculptures.
Mario Bencomo, Insular Night: Invisible Gardens, "Bencomo's Spaces," Forma Gallery, Coral Gables, FL. February 17--March 13, 1984; Arteconsult Gallery, Panamá, March 13--April 10, 1984. Paintings.
Humberto Calzada, A World Within and Other Recent Paintings, "Calzada's A World Within," solo exhibition, Forma Gallery, Coral Gables, FL. May 18--June 20, 1984. Paintings.
César Trasobares, Quinceañeras Works, "Las Chaperonas," solo exhibition, Gallery at Miami Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, Miami, FL. June 8--July 26, 1984. Assemblages.
R. F. Buckley, Landscapes: A Sculptural Discourse, "The Discourse of Sculpted Form," solo exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery at Florida International University, Miami, FL. June 15--July 20, 1984. Sculptures.
Julio Rosado del Valle, New Forms of Figuration, group exhibition, Center for Interamerican Relations, New York, NY. November 13, 1984--January 17, 1985. Paintings.
Robert Thiele & Debbie Schneider, "Thiele's Creative Paradox" and "Schneider and the Texture of Time," two-artist exhibition, Gallery at Miami Dade Community College, North Campus, Miami, FL. January, 1985. Sculptures and paintings.
Christopher Mangiaracina & Scott Hartley, "Various Thoughts on Mangiaracina and Hartley," two-man exhibition, Moosart Gallery, Miami, FL. October, 1985. Paintings.
Emilio Sánchez, "An Approach to the Image of Architecture in Emilio Sánchez," solo exhibition, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL. April 10-28, 1985. Paintings.
Felix Angel, "Lines, Action, Planes," solo exhibition, Forma Gallery, Coral Gables, FL. April, 1985. Paintings and drawings.
New Traditions: Thirteen Hispanic Photographers, "Identifying the Links between Photography and Painting in Latin American Visual Thinking," group exhibition, New York State Museum, Albany, NY. October, 1986, touring the U.S. through 1989. Photographs.
Clarence Carter, "On Clarence Carter's Recent Paintings," solo exhibition, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Galleries, New York, NY. September, 1986. Paintings.
Maria Brito-Avellana, "Brito-Avellana: The Objectivity of the Imagination," solo exhibition, Gallery at Kennesaw College, Marietta, GA. April--May, 1987. Sculptures.
Arnaldo Roche Rabell, "Arnaldo Roche: The Poetics of Identity," solo exhibition, Cultural Center, Chicago, IL. September, 1987.
Ramiro Llona, "The Traditions of Abstract Reference: Ramiro Llona and Latin American Art," solo exhibition, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY. February 24--March 26, 1988. Paintings.
¡Mira! The Canadian Club Hispanic Art Tour III, 1988-89, "Latin American Aesthetics in North America: The "Hispanic" Artist and the Value of Legacy," group exhibition, opening at the Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA March 29, 1988 and touring the U.S. through 1989. Paintings, drawings, assemblages and photographs.
Fernando La Rosa, "The Images of Fernando La Rosa," solo exhibition at Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, May 28--June 25, 1988. Photographs.
Arnaldo Roche Rabell, "The Imagination as Dialogue in the Paintings of Arnaldo Roche," solo exhibition at the St. Louis Gallery of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO, June 15--August 14, 1988. Paintings.
Clarence Carter, "The Poetics of Representation in Clarence Carter," retrospective exhibition at Art Galleries, Lehigh University (Sept 22--Oct 30, 1988) and Payne Gallery, Moravian College (Oct. 14--Nov 11, 1988), Bethlehem, PA. Paintings and drawings.
Rocío Rodríguez, "The Poetry of the Figure in the Paintings of Rocío Rodríguez," solo exhibition at the McIntosh Gallery and the Arts Exchange, both in Atlanta, GA. March 18--April 15, 1989. Paintings.
Costa Rican Art Today: New Directions. "Costa Rican Art and the Latin American Visual Imagination," group exhibition of ten artists, Museo de Arte Costarricense, San José, Costa Rica, May, 1989. Paintings, assemblages, and sculptures.
Ronald González, "Among the Ruins of the Familiar: A View of Ronald González," solo exhibition at the Intar Gallery, New York, NY, March 27--May 4, 1990. Sculptures.
Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, "Ramírez Villamizar and Latin American Visual Thinking," solo exhibition, Galería Durbán, Caracas, Venezuela. May-June, 1990. Catalogue also contains texts by Carlos Silva, Federico Morais, and Marta Traba. Sculptures.
Paul Sierra, solo exhibition, Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA. June 14-28, 1990. Paintings.
Bocaracá, group exhibition of Costa Rican artists at the Colegio Internacional SEK, Costa Rica, June, 1990. Paintings, assemblages, and sculptures.
Agustín Cárdenas, solo exhibition at Galería Durbán, Caracas, August--September, 1990. Catalogue also includes texts by André Breton, Octavio Paz, and Carlos Silva. Sculptures.
Humberto Calzada, solo exhibition, Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbour Island, FL, October, 1990. Paintings.
Pedro Barreto, "Pedro Barreto: A Dialogue of Elements," solo exhibition, Galería Durbán, Caracas, July-August, 1991. Catalogue also includes text by Carlos Silva. Sculptures.
Cundo Bermúdez, "Cundo Bermúdez and the Theatre of Painting," solo exhibition of paintings, Galería Durbán, Caracas, October--November, 1991.
Adonay Duque, "Adonay Duque and the Painting of Being," solo exhibition, Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, February 1992. Paintings.
Luís Lizardo, "Between Terrain and Garden: The Paintings of Luís Lizardo," solo exhibition, Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, March 1992. Paintings.
Fernando de Szyszlo, Fernando de Szyszlo: Las Puertas de la Noche, 1967-1992, "Szyszlo: La Originalidad de un Pensador," retrospective solo exhibition, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, 1992 (traveled to other venues in Latin America). Catalogue published by Ediciones Alfred Wild, Bogotá, 1992. Paintings.
Rafael Soriano, "Soriano: Light as Utterance," solo exhibition, Gary Nader Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, August 1992. Paintings.
Humberto Castro, "Temporality and the Theatre of the Body," solo exhibition, Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, December 1992. Paintings.
Julio Antonio, "Self and the Hidden Spiral," solo exhibition, Galería Leonora Vega, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Art Miami Fair, January 1993. Paintings.
Florencio Gelabert, "Florencio Gelabert: Recent Sculptures," solo exhibition, Fred Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, January 1993. Sculptures.
Víctor Valera, "Víctor Valera," solo exhibition, Galería Durbán, Caracas, March-April, 1993. Sculptures.
Julio Antonio, Painting, Drawing, and Works on Paper 1992 Fellowships, "Julio Antonio," group exhibition, Southern Arts Federation, Atlanta, GA, Spring 1993.
Guillermo Trujillo, "Nuchos Modernos y Antiguos," Retrospective, Museo de Arte Moderno de Panamá, August 1993. Paintings.
Nicolás Leiva, "Nicolás Leiva: Enigma as Origin of Image," solo exhibition, Gary Nader Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, September 1993. Paintings.
Luís Medina, "The Theatre of Visual Thought: The Latin American Sensibility of Luís Medina," solo exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, November 1993. Photographs.
Melquíades Rosario, "Melquíades Rosario Sastre: Of Matter and Tropes," solo exhibition, Chase Manhattan Bank, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, March 1994. Sculptures.
Pablo Soria, "Pablo Soria: A Poetry of Intersections," solo exhibition, Meza Fine Arts, Coral Gables, FL, March 1994. Paintings.
Gloria Fiallo, "Gloria Fiallo: Tactics and Syntax," solo exhibition, Meza Fine Arts, Coral Gables, FL, November 1994. Paintings.
Julio Larraz, "Larraz et le sens epique de la vie," solo exhibition, Gallerie Vallois (Paris), May-July, 1995. Paintings.
Fernando de Szyszlo, "Szyszlo's Dwelling Rooms," solo exhibition "Habitación No. 23," Galería Durbán, Caracas (July 1995) & Durbán-Segnini Gallery, Miami, FL (Nov. 1995). Paintings.
Rafael Soriano, "Rafael Soriano: Light's Way," solo exhibition, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Sept 9--Nov 19, 1995. Paintings.
Pablo Soria, "Some Thoughts on Pablo Soria," solo exhibition, Meza Fine Arts, Coral Gables, FL, October 1995. Paintings and an installation.
Eva Jawerbaum, "Emergence as Creativity," solo exhibition, De Santi Gallery, Buenos Aires, June 1996. Prints and works on paper.
Olga de Amaral, Olga de Amaral: Nine Stelae and Other Landscapes, "The Nine Stelae of Olga de Amaral," solo exhibition, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA (traveling), September 1996--October 1997. Weavings.
Olga de Amaral, "En Torno a las Estelas," solo exhibition, "Olga de Amaral: Estelas," Galería Diners, Bogotá, August--November 1996. Weavings.
Hernán Dompé, "An Approach to Hernán Dompé," solo exhibition, "Hernán Dompé: Una Luz en el Cerro," Der Brucke Gallery, Buenos Aires, November 1996.
Rolando López Dirube, "Dirube: compromiso con el crear," solo exhibition, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, January--March 1997. Sculptures, paintings, drawings, prints.
Armando Morales, "Morales and Light" in solo exhibition, Gary Nader Fine Arts, Coral Gables, FL, April 1997. Paintings.
Gustavo López Armentía, "The Art of Finding Oneself Lost," solo exhibition, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires & Reece Galleries, New York, NY, May 1997. Paintings and sculptures.
Olga de Amaral, "Olga de Amaral: The Intimate Labyrinth of Surface," solo retrospective exhibition 1965-1996, Musée de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, Angers, France, fall 1997. Weavings and Woven Sculptures.
Jesús Rafael Soto. Soto Virtual, "Soto and the Self," solo exhibition, Galería Durbán, Caracas, Venezuela, June 29--Aug. 31, 1997. Sculptures and installations.
Brooke Alfaro. Cuando Nuestros Mundos se Cruzan. "Brooke Alfaro: Cuando Nuestros Mundos se Cruzan," solo exhibition, Galería Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, N.L., México, 1997.
Juan José Molina. En Blanco y Negro (In Black and White), solo exhibition, Galería Durbán, Caracas, Venezuela, May 17--June 20, 1998. Paintings and Drawings.
Elizabeth Cerejido. Escucho: Desnudos, "I Listen--Nudes by Elizabeth Cerejido," solo exhibition, Galería Municipal Pancho Fierro, Lima, Perú, Sept 7--Oct. 20, 1998, & Miami-Dade Community College Art Gallery, Kendall Campus, Feb 12-26, 1999, Miami, FL.
Ernesto Zaléz. El Oro de los Vicios. "Becoming: Zaléz" (Convirtiendo: Zaléz), solo exhibition, Galería Durbán, Caracas/ Durbán-Segnini, Miami, May 1999. Paintings and sculptures.
Tulio Romano. Lugares comunes. "The Complex Humor of Tulio Romano," Der Brucke Gallery, Buenos Aires, solo exhibition, 1999. Sculptures.
Melquiades Rosario. Botello Gallery, San Juan, solo exhibition, 1999. Sculptures.
Humberto Aquino, "The Liquid Stage: an Approach to Humberto Aquino," Retrospective Exhibition 1966-1999, Second Lima Art Biennial, Lima, Perú, Oct-Dec, 1999. Pedro de Osma Museum, Lima, April--May, 2000. Paintings and Drawings.
Humberto Castro, Humberto Castro: the Paris Years 1989-1999, "Body Tenses: the Art of Humberto Castro," survey of previous ten years of work, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, 2001.
Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, “Fraternos,” traveling exhibition, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, et al 2002-03.
Rubén Torres-Llorca, “Time, Ambiguity and Symbol in the work of Rubén Torres-Llorca,” solo exhibiton at Praxis International Art Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, 2006.
Luís Felipe Noé, “¿Qué? Noé,” solo exhibition at Galería Rubbers Internacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006.
Luisa Richter, “Manifiesto del Tiempo,” solo exhibiton at Galería de Arte Ascaso, Caracas, Venezuela, 2007.
Lectures, Conferences and Talks:
[In English, unless otherwise indicated.]
"The African Presence in Cuban Poetry and Painting," University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL. Lecture given as part of a conference on the relations between Christian and African religions and cultures in the Caribbean. Sponsored by the Department of Afro-American Studies and the Florida Endowment for the Humanities. June 1--3, 1978.
"Negrismo and Cuban Identity," lecture delivered as part of the seminar on Caribbean culture taught by Sir Philip Sherlock (Visiting Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida), Gainesville, FL. November 30, 1978.
"A Stylistic Approach to Contemporary Cuban Art," delivered at the First Congres of Dissident Cuban Intellectuals, Paris, France. April 10--12, 1979. Also delivered at the Symposium on Cuban Art and Literature in honor of Enrique Labrador Ruiz, Florida International University, Miami, FL. November, 1979.
"Luminescence in Four Latin American Painters: Roberto Matta, Jesús Soto, Manabu Mabe and Rafael Soriano," delivered at the Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Coral Gables, FL. February 5, 1981.
International observer at the Fifth San Juan Biennial of Latin American Graphics, May, 1981. Delivered two talks in Spanish, one on Rolando Dirube, the other on Roberto Matta, at the Museum of Art and History, San Juan, Puerto Rico. May l7, 198l.
"Art Criticism in Latin America," (in Spanish) delivered at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and "The Sign as a Motif in Latin American Art," at Altos de Chavón, La Romana, Dominican Republic. April 25--30, 1983.
"Metaphor and Metonymy in the Languages of Visual Thining in the Western Hemisphere," presented at the 17th Congress and 36th General Assembly of the International Association of Art Critics, Caracas, Venezuela. September 18--24, 1983.
"Luminosity in the Art of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean," delivered at the 24th National Art Education Association Convention of the United States Society for Education through Art (USSEA), Miami, FL. April 2, 1984.
"The Architectural Motif in Latin American Art," delivered as part of the Critics Lecture Series, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Other critics in the series were Eliza Rathbone, Sam Hunter, John Canaday, William Gerdts, Robert Hughes, and William Lieberman. April 18, 1985.
"The Dream in Contemporary Latin American Art," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. August 8, 1985.
"Dream Imagery in Latin American Painting," Vizcaya Museum, Miami, FL. October 17, 1985.
"Contemporary Argentine Art" and panel discussion on art of Pérez Celis (in Spanish), Centro Cultural--la Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina. August l5 and 23, 1985.
"Cuban Cultural Life During Hemingway's Years There (1940-1960)," delivered at the conference on Hemingway's Vision of War and Reconciliation, Boise State University, Idaho. March 6, 1986.
"Torres-García and the Roots of Modernism," delivered at the Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL. In conjunction with the Miami presentation of the international touring exhibition, Torres-García: Grid, Pattern, Sign. Lecture delivered September 21, 1986.
"Cuban Art and Artists in Miami," part of symposium on A Quarter Century of Cuban Exile Culture, Florida International University, Miami, FL. September 26, 1986.
"Recent Trends in Latin American Art," delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago. In conjunction with the exhibition Recent Latin American Drawings at the Art Institute. Lecture delivered
July 21 and 22, 1987.
"Cuban Art in Exile," Art Museum, Miami University, Oxford, OH. November 15, 1987.
"The Dream as Thought: An Approach to Latin American Oneiric Art," delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago. November 17, 1987.
"Latin American Art: An Historical Perspective," delivered at the Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL as part of Dialogue, Latin America, a symposium held in conjunction with the Miami presentation of The Art of the Fantastic in its national tour. Lecture delivered on January 30, 1988.
"Cuban Art Outside the Island since 1960," delivered at the National Library, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. November 26, 1987.
"An Overview of Latin American Art," delivered at the Walter Hill Auditorium, High Museum of Art, Atlanta. co-sponsored by the Atlanta College of Arts, Atlanta International School, and Casa Cultural Iberoamericna. March 25, 1988.
"Hispanic Art in the United States," delivered at the Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. March 3l, l988.
"Abstract Reference in Latin American Visual Thought," delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago. Focuses on the works of Joaquín Torres-García, Roberto Matta, Rogelio Polesello, Fernando de Szyszlo, Ramiro Llona, Elena Presser, Hernán Dompé, Mario Bencomo, and Enrique Castro-Cid. Delivered twice, on April 8 & 9, 1988.
Gallery lecture on Hispanic artists of the United States, in conjunction with the ¡Mira! III exhibition, The Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, June 12, 1988.
"The Infinite in Latin American Art," (in Spanish) delivered at the Museo de Arte Costarricense, San José, Costa Rica, on August 23, 1988. Focusing on the work of: Joaquín Torres-García, Rogelio Polesello, Alejandro Aróstegui, Gunther Gerzso, Marta Minujín, Roberto Matta, Fernando de Szyszlo, Rafael Soriano and Enrique Castro-Cid.
Lecture on Hispanic artists residing in Miami, in conjunction with ¡Mira! III at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, Sept 10, 1988.
"The Art of Clarence Carter," in conjunction with the Clarence Holbrook Carter retrospective, delivered at Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, Oct. 14, 1988.
Gallery talk, on Outside Cuba/Fuera de Cuba, at the Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL, October 19, 1988.
Participated in panel on Hispanic art in the United States and Latin American art, along with Inverna Lockpez, Liliana Porter and Rimer Cardillo, at the Museo del Barrio, New York City, in conjunction with the ¡Mira! Canadian Club Hispanic Art Tour III, May 4, 1989.
Participated in panel on "Hispanic Art in Perspective," Brooklyn Museum, June 18, 1989, with Luis Cancel, Shifra Goldman, Robert Storr, Susana Torruella Leval, Mary Jane Jacob and Nilda Peraza.
"Latin American Artists in South Florida," in conjunction with exhibition Latin American Artists of the Southeast Coastal Region, at the Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida, October 5, 1989.
"Representing the Infinite: Joaquín Torres-García, Roberto Matta, Enrique Castro-Cid, et al," The Art Institute of Chicago, January 9, 1990.
"The Importance of Representation in Latin American Art," (in Spanish), Centro de Bellas Artes, Maracaibo, Venezuela, January 27, 1990.
"Forms and Transformations in Latin American Art," as part of Drawing: Three Symposia, March 15-17, 1990, sponsored by the University of Florida, the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, and Santa Fe Community College. Talk dealt with Wifredo Lam, Rafael Soriano, Arnaldo Roche Rabell, Marta Minujín, Joaquín Torres-García, and Enrique Castro-Cid. Delivered at the Fine Arts Building Auditorium, University of Florida, March 16th.
Colloquium on painter and sculptor Oswaldo Vigas (in Spanish), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber, with Gaston Diehl and Carlos Silva, Caracas, Venezuela, November 8, 1990.
"An Introduction to Modern Cuban Art," part of symposium Cuba: Pearl of the Caribbean, at University of South Florida/St. Petersburg, Florida, February 21, 1991.
"Architectural Images in Latin American Art," Institute of Maya Studies, Museum of Science, Miami, FL, March 20, 1991.
"Contemporary Cuban Art," part of symposium on The State of Hispanic Fine Arts, University of Chicago, May 8, 1991.
Lecture on Humberto Calzada, in conjunction with a retrospective of his paintings which I curated, at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, October 20, 1991.
Lecture on Humberto Calzada and Fernando de Szyszlo and their place in contemporary Latin American Art, North Miami Center for Contemporary Art, October 26, 1991.
"Tropes and Continuity: Cuban Visual Thinking since the 1920's," as part of lecture series A Coat of Many Colors: An Introduction to Cuban Culture, Manatee Community College, South Campus in Sarasota, FL, January 27, 1992.
"Contemporary Art of Central America and the Caribbean," Kennesaw College, Marietta, GA, April 2, 1992.
Lecture and workshop to Dade County middle school teachers on the visual arts in Miami, Florida International University, Miami, FL, August 3, 1992.
"Introduction to Latin American Visual Thinking," Hollins College, Roanoke, VA, April 8, 1993.
"Lo Latinoamericano en el arte latinoamericano," Universidad Católica, Guayaquil, Ecuador, August 16, 1993.
"Temporality in the sculptures and installations of Ronald González and María Brito," Symposium Revelations/Revelaciones, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, November 6-7, 1993.
"A View of the Infinite in Latin American Art," McGill University, Montréal, December 3, 1993.
"Temporality in the sculptures of Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar," Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber, Feb 27, 1994.
"The Latin American sensibility of Melquíades Rosario," at the Chase Manhattan Bank, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, March 5, 1994.
"`Teatralidad' y referencias multiples en el arte latinoamericano," Jorge Luís Borges Auditorium, National Library, Buenos Aires, June 14, 1994.
"Latin American Art in South Florida," Symposium Los Latinos sponsored by Florida Humanities Council for the Florida Center for Teachers, Eckerd College, June 29, 1994.
"Tropos y sueños: representaciones oníricas en el arte latinoamericano" and "Lo infinito en el arte latinoamericano," Circolo Italiano de Buenos Aires, sponsored by the Fundación Proscenio, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 8 & 10, 1995.
"Impact of Cuban Exodus since 1959 on Miami art scene," part of "Contemporary American and Latin American Art in Miami," a week-long conference sponsored by Sotheby's, New York. Talk delivered at the Wolfsonian Institution, Miami Beach, FL, October 20, 1995.
"Theatricality in Latin American Visual Art" and "The Process by Which Visual Works of Art Influence the Conception and Execution of Literary Works of Art," as part of one-week residency, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, October 13 & 15, 1997.
"Enclosures and the Infinite--Geometry, the Figure and Habitation--in Contemporary Latin American Sculpture," 17th International Sculpture Conference, International Sculpture Center, Sheraton Hotel, Chicago, IL, May 10-23, 1998,
"El cuerpo como gesto y significación: un acercamiento a la fotografía de Elizabeth Cerejido," Corriente Alterna, Lima (Miraflores), Perú, September 9, 1998.
"Brooke Alfaro and His Place in Panamanian and Latin American Art," Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, September 19, 1998.
"Toward a Tropological Civilization in the Post-Multicultural Age," Creative Writing Plenary Address, Languaging 99 Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, March 3-7, 1999. Also delivered a talk on art criticism, focusing on Latin American art of the 20th century, and a solo poetry reading (see below).
"La imagen del espacio marginal: arte latinoamericano en Miami," Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber, in conjunction with the Feria Iberoamericana de Arte, Caracas, 8 July 1999.
"Continuidad en el arte cubano del exilio," Cuba: Cultura y Exilio, National Association of Cuban-American Educators, Miami, October 7-9, 1999 (see section on published Essays).
"El Miami posible: hacia una conciencia bihemisférica," Segunda Bienal de Arte de Lima, Museo de Arte, Lima, Perú, Oct. 26, 1999.
"Agustín Fernández and Latin American Art," Aroca Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, January 25, 2001.
"Continuity in Cuban Visual Thinking," Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, March 16, 2001.
"An Overview of Cuban Painting and Sculpture, mid-1920's to the Present," Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA, March 19, 2002.
Panel sobre “La Escultura,” con Melquíades Rosario Sastre, Dhara Rivera & Mariman Benítez, Puerto Rico Art Week, Viota Art Gallery, San Juan, P.R., Marzo 1, 2005.
“Cuban Cultural Survival in Exile: the Visual Arts,” lecture delivered at Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Stewart House, May 8, 2006, and also at ABRALIC Conference, State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, August 3, 2006.
Lecture on the work of Argentine painters, Marcelo Bordese and Miguel Ronsino, at the Fundación Alón, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 14, 2006.
"Lo latinoamericano en el arte de Costa Rica" (What is Latin American about Costa Rican Art?), Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo, San José, Costa Rica, November 17, 2006.
“The Achievement of Olga de Amaral,” on the featured artist at the Women in Textile Art Biennial, San José, Costa Rica, September 10-15, 2006.
Curatorial, Editorial and Advisory Activities:
Senior Editor, Art International (Lugano), 1983-85, and Contributing Editor for Latin America of the new Art International (Paris), 1988 and U. S. Editor 1991-92.
Co-curator, Outside Cuba/Fuera de Cuba, the most comprehensive survey of Cuban art organized in the United States since the April, 1944 exhibition "Modern Cuban Painters," at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. OC/FC presented works by 48 Cuban-born artists currently living outside the island. The exhibition included paintings, installations, photographs, sculptures, videos and assemblages. The other two curators of OC/FC were Inverna Lockpez and Ricardo Viera. The exhibition was organized by the Office of Hispanic Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, and opened at that University's Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum on March 24, 1987. OC/FC traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art in New York City, the Art Museum at Miami University of Ohio, the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico, the Center for the Fine Arts in Miami, and the College of Fine Arts in Atlanta. This tour ended in March, 1989.
Co-curator, ¡Mira! The Canadian Club Hispanic Art Tour III, 1988-89. Opened on March 29, 1988 at the Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, this exhibition traveled for approximately two years and visited the Meadows Museum in Dallas, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, the Terra Museum in Chicago, and the Museo del Barrio in New York City. (Mira! III included works by 29 Chicano, Cuban-American, Puerto Rican, and Latin American artists living in the United States. The other two curators of this exhibition were Inverna Lockpez and Susana Torruella Leval.
One of two United States advisors to the Fifth (1986) and Sixth (1988) Domecq Biennials of Latin American art, Mexico City.
Advisor and contributor on Cuban and Latin American art to the Dictionary of Art, a 34-volume encyclopedia of world art published by Macmillan Publishers, London in 1996.
Judge of the first Bienal Francisco Amighetti, San José, Costa Rica, sponsored by the Centro Cultural Costarricense Norteamericano, August 20-24, 1988.
Curator, Clarence Holbrook Carter: A Retrospective, Paintings at Payne Gallery, Moravian College (Oct 14--Nov 11, 1988) and Drawings at the Art Galleries, Lehigh University (Sept 22--Oct 30, 1988), both in Bethlehem, PA.
Co-curator of Costa Rican Art Today: New Directions, at the Museo de Arte Costarricense, sponsored by American Express, May, 1989. The other co-curators were Virginia Vargas, Director of the MAC, and Alvaro Zamora, art critic and historian. The exhibition travelled to the Art Gallery at the Wolfson Campus, Miami-Dade Community College, March--April, 1990.
Originator of the idea and Program Director of Miami and Its Images, the 1990 Distinguished Visiting Professor Series at Miami-Dade Community College, Kendall Campus. The Series gathered over 60 speakers and panelists from all over the U.S.--including Donald Justice, David Rieff, Charles Silberman, John Merrill, Dorothy Fields, Felix Morisseau-Leroy, Mercedes Sandoval, Nathan Glazer, Alejandro Portes, and Charles Willie--to discuss the image of Miami in the media, inter-ethnic relations, the history of the city, the psychology of exile, the myths and stereotypes that govern perceptions of the city, as well as the often ignored creativity of Miami's writers, musicians and visual artists. The Series ran from March 5-15, 1990.
Co-curator, with Miami-Dade Community College/Kendall Campus, Art Dept faculty, "Twenty-Five in Miami," an art exhibition, in conjunction with the Distinguished Visiting Professor Series Miami and Its Images. Art Gallery at Miami-Dade Community College, Kendall Campus, March 9-30, 1990.
Judge, with Francisco Castro Leñero and Perán Erminy, of the First Central American Contest in Painting, sponsored by the Instituto Hondureño de Cultura Interamericana, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, April 1-4, 1990.
Judge, with Jeanette Miller and Enrique García Gutiérrez, of the Primer Certamen Nacional de Artes Plásticas (First National Contest in the Visual Arts), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan; opened November 8, 1991.
Curator of the Humberto Calzada Retrospective at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, October-November, 1991. Condensed version of this exhibition traveled to Kennesaw College Art Galleries, Atlanta, GA, April 2--May 13, 1992.
"Soto in Chicago," text and presentation of video on Jesús Rafael Soto, produced by John Asencio, Fried Banana Productions, Chicago, for Galería Durbán, Caracas. Video produced in both English and Spanish for use in gallery and educational presentations.
One of twelve members of international panel allocating $50,000 awards to twelve artists in the Eco-Art exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2-30, 1992. This exhibition has drew major international attention as it traveled to various venues throughout the world. Other judges were Gilberto Chateaubriand, Geraldo Edson de Andrade, Angel Kalenberg, Thomas M. Messer, Maria Alice Milliet de Oliveira, Federico Morais, Diana Nemiroff, Carlos Silva, Rafael Squirru, Roberto Tejada, and Gloria Zea.
Member of selection committee chosing works for the Salón Arturo Michelena, Ateneo de Valencia, Valencia, Edo. Carabobo, Venezuela, June 1992. Other jurors were Juan Carlos Palenzuela, Pedro Barreto, Federica Palomero, and Luís Brito.
Curator, two simultaneous solo exhibitions, Cuban Museum of the Americas, Miami, FL: "Gloria Lorenzo: Cuerpos Extraños" ("Foreign Bodies," ceramic sculpture), and "Dita Sullivan: El Ultimo Día" ("The Last Day," color laser prints taken in Havana during the 1980's), January 10--March 20, 1997.
Curator, two simultaneous solo exhibitions of works and installations by José Bedia and Melquíades Rosario Sastre, First Lima Art Biennial, Lima, Perú, October--December, 1997.
Curator, solo exhibition of photographs by Elizabeth Cerejido, Galería Arte Municipal Pancho Fierro, Lima, Perú, October--December 1998.
Curator, solo exhibition/installation by Maria Brito, Second Lima Art Biennial, Lima, Perú, October--December 1999.
2002-2004, North American editor for the art magazine Southward Art, published in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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