Resumen

Azaceta is a devotee of visual experiment who often develops parallel series in several media at once, combining materials in totally unexpected ways, as with his extended series of photographs mounted on twisted metal stud. Azaceta works constantly and is extremely prolific.

For Azaceta, art is a way of facing the world. He recognizes that change is inevitable, and that all of us are implicated by reality and time passing. The world we inhabit is contingent and changing; and chaos is an inherent part of the process. This is the reality we all share and which we all too often ignore.

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  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Travelling Show, 2024
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Travelling Show, 2024
    Acrylic on canvas
    72 x 96 in
    182.9 x 243.8 cm
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Travelling Show 444, 2024
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Travelling Show 444, 2024
    Acrylic, markers on paper
    30 x 44 in
    76.2 x 111.8 cm
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Hero - Innocent Incongruities 6, 2023
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Hero - Innocent Incongruities 6, 2023
    Mixed media, drawing construction
    17 3/4 x 8 1/4 x 3 in
    45.1 x 21 x 7.6 cm
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Innocent Incongruities 5, 2023
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Innocent Incongruities 5, 2023
    Mixed media, drawing construction
    16 3/4 x 11 1/2 x 4 1/2 in
    42.5 x 29.2 x 11.4 cm
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Refugee, 2022
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Refugee, 2022
    Mixed media on canvas
    48 x 48 in
    121.9 x 121.9 cm
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Swimming to Freedom, 2022
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Swimming to Freedom, 2022
    Mixed media on canvas
    48 x 48 in
    121.9 x 121.9 cm
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Hell Crossing to Freedom, 2021
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Hell Crossing to Freedom, 2021
    Acrylic, ink marker on paper mounted on metal basin
    24 1/2 x 11 3/4 x 5 3/4 in
    62.2 x 29.8 x 14.6 cm
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Hope in the age of Covid 1-2-3 (Triptych), 2021
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Hope in the age of Covid 1-2-3 (Triptych), 2021
    Acrylic and ink markers on paper
    39 1/2 x 77 1/4 in
    100.3 x 196.2 cm
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Profile, 2021
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Profile, 2021
    Acrylic on canvas
    48 x 72 in
    121.9 x 182.9 cm
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, A Question of Color, Justice and freedom in our Democrazy, 2019
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    A Question of Color, Justice and freedom in our Democrazy, 2019
    Acrylic, plastic balls, wood on canvas
    73 1/4 x 102 x 3 1/2 in
    186.1 x 259.1 x 8.9 cm
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Celebration, 2019
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Celebration, 2019
    Mixed media on canvas
    40 x 72 in
    101.6 x 182.9 cm
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Frenzy, 2019
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Frenzy, 2019
    Acrylic and pencil on canvas
    24 x 24 in
    61 x 61 cm
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Innocent Incongruities, 2019
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Innocent Incongruities, 2019
    Acrylic, ink marker & pencil on paper
    41 3/4 x 29 1/2 in
    106 x 74.9 cm
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Innocent Incongruities 4, 2019
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Innocent Incongruities 4, 2019
    Mixed media, drawing construction
    20 x 14 x 7 in
    50.8 x 35.6 x 17.8 cm
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Mayhem, 2019
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Mayhem, 2019
    Acrylic and pencil on canvas
    24 x 24 in
    61 x 61 cm
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Swimming to Havana 77, 2016
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Swimming to Havana 77, 2016
    Acrylic, ink marker and pencil on paper
    30 x 30 in
    76.2 x 76.2 cm
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Balsero, 2011
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Balsero, 2011
    Digital print
    20 x 20 in
    50.8 x 50.8 cm
    Edition 2 of 10 (Balsero)
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Personajes Portfolio, 2011
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Personajes Portfolio, 2011
    Digital print
    Measures of the portfolio jacket: 20.25 x 20.25 in
    19.50 x 19.50 in
    49.53 x 49.53 cm
    Edition 7 of 10
    $ 7,500.00
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Personajes Portfolio, 2011
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Personajes Portfolio, 2011
    Digital print
    Measures of the portfolio jacket: 20.25 x 20.25 in
    19.50 x 19.50 in
    49.53 x 49.53 cm
    Edition 3 of 10
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Personajes Portfolio, 2011
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Personajes Portfolio, 2011
    Digital print
    Measures of the portfolio jacket: 20.25 x 20.25 in
    19.50 x 19.50 in
    49.53 x 49.53 cm
    Edition 5 of 10
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Personajes Portfolio, 2011
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Personajes Portfolio, 2011
    Digital print
    Measures of the portfolio jacket: 20.25 x 20.25 in
    19.50 x 19.50 in
    49.53 x 49.53 cm
    Edition 9 of 10
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Personajes Portfolio, 2011
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Personajes Portfolio, 2011
    Digital print
    Measures of the portfolio jacket: 20.25 x 20.25 in
    Set of 9 images
    19.50 x 19.50 in
    49.53 x 49.53 cm
    Edition 2 of 10
    Sold
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Urban Jungle, 2011
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Urban Jungle, 2011
    Serigraph with over 30 colors
    35 x 40.50 in
    88.9 x 102.87 cm
    Edition of 90
    $ 2,000.00
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Game of horrors, 1978
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Game of horrors, 1978
    Prisma color pencils on paper
    31 x 25 in
    78.7 x 63.5 cm
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta, Early Geometric, 1969
    Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Early Geometric, 1969
    Oil on canvas
    42.50 x 42.50 in
    107.95 x 107.95 cm
    Sold
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Biografía

Luis Cruz Azaceta, born 1942, is a Cuban American visual artist.
He left Cuba as a teenager in 1960. After immigrating to the United States, Azaceta lived in New York, graduated from The School of Visual Arts and began his long career as an artist.

Since the late 1970s the paintings and drawings of Luis Cruz Azaceta have been addressing the moral and ethical pulse of this country. Early works focused on urban violence, the Aids epidemic, and racism. His current works relate to the rapid state of change in the world at large – war, terrorism, displacement, identity, and collapsing economies.

He has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally and has been awarded grants including The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, The Joan Mitchell Foundation. His work is in the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and The Whitney Museum of Art in New York, The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., Museo De Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela, Marco, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo De Monterrey, Mexico among others.

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