Author: Virginia Miller

Feel like you’re drowning in a sea of cars? So does Mexican artist Sergio Garval, whose seven-page biography lists dozens of exhibitions of paintings, sculpture, etchings and drawings in New York, Italy, Switzerland and throughout Mexico. His universal theme must resonate with jurors of art competitions throughout Mexico, because Garval has placed in the top … Read More

Inspired by the literary movement called “hemofiction,” Mexican-American artist Marianela de la Hoz seeks to offer insights into the hidden character of her subjects through visual codes and exaggerated features. Her version of magic realism has been termed “white violence,” because of her use of black humor and fantasy to depict the darker side of … Read More

Cuba’s celebrated 1980s Generation of artists includes some of the most accomplished and best-known Cuban-American painters: José Bedia, Tomás Sanchez and Humberto Castro. Drawing on his Cuban roots, Castro’s work often uses classical mythology as a parallel to the repressive regime in his homeland. Castro’s second solo show at ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries will be in … Read More

In his article in “Arte al Dí­a” online, critic Ricardo Pau Llosa calls Melquiades “not only Puerto Rico’s most important contemporary sculptor (but also) one of the finest contemporary artists anywhere.” Paul-Llosa goes on to note that Melqui­ades has not simply rejected the current theoretical underpinnings of most contemporary art, but “is a thinking man … Read More