An ongoing body of perceptually based works which are done, on- site, at various locations across the country. Each painting is produced over the course of the entire day, in a wet-on-wet, cumulative painting manner.(usually 30” x 24” – 48” x 36”indivual canvases)
Similar to the Cumulative Nature Series but either painted at the largest scale I can manage (60” x 48”) and/or then grouped into new multi-panel works.
A more research-based approach to painting on-site (in the same manner as Cumulative Nurture series) where I select locations with historical/cultural significance in order to connect to a place as it is now while pointing back to often lost histories and people who inhabited them- often these works are presented with the researched history of each site.
A series of on-site acrylic on paper paintings that were made in the Vinales Valley of Cuba.
A series of on-site acrylic on paper paintings that were made in the Vinales Valley of Cuba.
Works that combine my extensive American-based on-site painting practice with my new studio-based explorations of broader ideas of the Cuban landscape, migration and place/displacement- and offer a pictorial reconciliation between my Cuban and American identities.
This body centers on discovering links between my work as a painter and the scientific work of my great uncle, the renown Cuban botanist Juan Tomás Roig. My 2021 Guggenheim fellowship award supported some projects from this series.
