Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this short bilingual essay, Gustavo Valdés highlights the importance of Cuban painter Carmen Herrera (b. 1915) as a harbinger in geometric abstraction, as well as the most senior Latino artist working in New York. Following a brief anecdote of [...]

This article by Gustavo Valdés, Jr. serves as a review of the final phase (1990–97) of the work of Dominican painter Darío Suro, emphasizing its fierce and iconoclastic form of expressionism, particularly with regard to his depictions of the self [...]