Rodolfo Nieto (1936–1985)
Photo by Andrew Vlady
One of the pioneer artists, a precursor to the phenomenal explosion of creativity from Oaxaca. Living and working for many years in Paris, Nieto's works stand as a testimony t...
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Alfredo Sosabravo (b. 1930)
The 1998 recipient of Cuba's National Award for the Fine Arts, Sosabravo is the Godfather of the graphic satire that far outreaches contemporary Cuban art; his influence is firmly set in the Isle of the Manhattos via the subsequent generations of Cuban as well as Puerto Rican and Dominican artists.
read moreFrancisco Toledo (b. 1940)
Considered overwhelmingly to be Mexico's greatest living artist, Toledo is primarily a printmaker. Of all the works in this exposition, Toledo's are the most difficult to classify. Each image he unde...
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Remigio Valdés de Hoyas (b. 1950)
A restless innovator, his penetration of lithographic and coloristic possibilities are at once the means and allegory for his bold and unabashed explorations into the lights and shadows of human nature...
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Francisco Zúñiga (1913–1998)
The Master.
Francisco Zúñiga died on August 9, 1998; one week after the Kyron exhibition was inaugurated on the Internet. In his memory Andrew Vlady would like to include the final paragraph from ...
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Mexico's comparative arts through the ages
The following comparative time line provides an orientation to the roots, elements and development of the rich artistic heritage of Mexico.
The time line presentation allows for a sense of movement a...
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A Michoacan tradition: the needlework artistry of Hermelinda Reyes
Her bold hands coax the thread through white cotton, relinquishing a fragment of the kaleidoscopic hues within her soul to cavort freely across the snowy landscape. The joints of her fingers moving wit...
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A quest for hidden treasure in Chihuahua
You might say that it all began on an ordinary day in New York - the treasure hunt, that is. My 23 year old daughter Elise was just back from Spain where she had been teaching English to grade school s...
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The Painter's Wife, a short story
When Marianne Ferrucci first learned that her husband was seriously ill from a mysterious viral infection, she went out on the second floor balcony of their house in northern Mexico, gazed up at the sk...
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Fiona Dunnett: images of self and death in Oaxaca
Comic strips, a young Canadian's self portraits, and photographs of violent deaths in a Mexican daily newspaper, make strange bedfellows. But they constitute a major part of the driving force for the c...
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