One of Mexico's foremost printmakers, Cuevas stands apart. His imagery is more in tune with the literary traditions of the Spanish language--without being illustration--than obedient to the reco... read more

An artist who needs no introduction. Tamayo shares the limelight together with Diego Rivera as Mexico's greatest painters of the twentieth century. But Tamayo, like Rivera, was also a prolific and de... read more

The legendary English born surrealist painter is internationally recognized for her unique imagery. However, this nonagenarian has yet to be recognized for her profound influence on the younger generat... read more

Photo by Bob Schalkwijk His visual roots firmly planted in the graphic essence that marked the early part of this century, Anguiano's traditional figurative imagery has grown to embrace vivid colo... read more

  Castañeda is renowned for his "inspirationalist" allegories that feature his own bearded "alter ego". He renders his images with "Old Master" pictorial quality. An optimistic spirituality radi... read more

  This trickster - satirist from Guadalajara often begins with classical Mexican forms, themes and motifs, and then corrupts them, so to speak, by bombarding them with foreign elements. Colunga re... read more

Corzas' imagery is of literary origin. Erudition rendered through virtuoso inarticulation. Cynosure yet restless, his imagery casts a benumbing yet a clarifying effect upon our perception. Ever-present... read more

A veteran of the "Oaxacan School" that is rapidly receiving worldwide recognition, Javier has developed his own personal and unmistakable iconography. Movement is a principle and continuous force that... read more

  Minerva balances multiple fields of geometric designs, rectangular spirals, parallel zigzags and represents indoor-outdoor dwellings on her primary design field. Within these major areas Minerva... read more

  Another Tapatío artist (from Guadalajara), Martín del Campo is a major exponent of Magic Realism. A prolific and versatile artist whose media span the gamut from painting to silver casting, Ma... read more

Lucía Maya is Mexico's graphic artist par excellence. The pencil is her prime creative tool. Limiting herself only to the lithographic grease pencil, this Tapatía artist syncopates the sweeping ran... read more

The internationally renown Nicaraguan-born painter is a world master whose work continuously grows. His intricate technical achievements have led to worlds of imagery never before trespassed. Morales delved into the secrets of the lithographic stone with no less audacity, determination and understanding than he puts into oil painting.

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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... read more

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.

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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... read more

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... read more

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 ... read more

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... read more

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... read more

Lake Chapala’s literary and artistic reputation was enhanced in the 1930s, '40s and '50s by a long string of visiting writers and artists. Here is a brief alphabetical listing of some of the stalwarts of the Lake Chapala art and literary scene in the 1960s and early 1970s. read more

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... read more

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... read more

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... read more