Luis Cruz Azaceta
Cuban American painter, born 1942
Azaceta’s work is in some ways a precursor to Neo-Expressionism, a style of painting and sculpture that developed in the late 1970s proper and gained in prominence in the 1980s. Azaceta was already exploring this type of socially and politically-charged imagery in the late 1960s while living in New York City and studying at the School of Visual Arts.
Since 1992, the artist has lived and worked in New Orleans, and his recent paintings and sculptures have addressed the two catastrophes—Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill. Azaceta is continually overwhelmed by inequality in the world, and his practice continues to address these shared miseries in the modern world.
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Mexican American artist and master muralist, born 1968
American painter, collagist, and writer, 1913–1967