Hyphenated Nature
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.
All works in this series are combinations of at least one on-site painting and one “Hecho con Cuba” painting.
To learn more about my piece Hyphenated Nature: Northern Florida Cuban Painting Relations (after Carta) which is in the “Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way” exhibition at the Buffalo AKG, please touch this LINK:
Hyphenated Nature: Northern Florida Cuban Painting Relations (after Carta). triptych, 30" x 78" . (left & right are on-site , oil on canvas paintings & middle is acrylic & handmade Cuban soil-pigment on canvas), 2020.
Hyphenated Nature: Two Rocks of Geographic Significance to Me (Skykomish River, WA & El Moro, Bay of Havana, Cuba), 20" x 70". (left : on-site , oil on canvas painting, right: acrylic & handmade Cuban soil-pigment on canvas). 2021
"Anchor River Rock" (3x4) original individual on-site painting that is on the left side of the "Hyphenated Nature: Two Rocks of Geographic Significance to Me" diptych.
Hyphenated Nature: American Banyan & Vinales Palm Diptych, 36' x 60". (left : on-site , oil on canvas painting, right: acrylic & handmade Cuban soil-pigment on canvas). 2022
Hyphenated Nature: American Banyan & Cuban Mogote Diptych, 36' x 60". (left : on-site , oil on canvas painting, right: acrylic & handmade Cuban soil-pigment on canvas). 2022
Hyphenated Nature: Ramos, Mendieta & Me, 18" x 36". ( right: acrylic & handmade Cuban soil-pigment on canvas; right: on-site , oil on canvas painting) 2020
Hyphenated Nature: American Banyan & Vinales Mogote Slope with Palms Diptych, 30' x 54", (left : on-site , oil on canvas painting; right: acrylic & hand-made Cuban soil pigment on canvas), 2022