Gloria Lorenzo (Santa Clara, Cuba 1954)

Gloria Lorenzo

Gloria Lorenzo’s work reflects a profound versatility of mediums and depth of expression and expound on her desire to formally capture time, emotions and reality in an effort to provide form to the intangible, to that that cannot be contained.  Her sculptures have evolved from primarily enameled clay objects to larger scale pieces that incorporate wood, metal, resins and other materials.  Gloria’s use of evocative organic forms draws inspiration from her love of structure, textures and process.

Born in Cuba, Gloria graduated from the renowned San Alejandro Academy of Art in Havana.  She quickly rose to the top of Cuba’s avant-garde exhibiting in the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Center for Design and Fine Arts and the Amelia Peláez Gallery among others.

Gloria left Cuba and emigrated to the United States in 1991. That year, she was featured in two solo shows in Spain at the Mayfair Villa Franca de Penedes and Sala del Ayuntamiento of Saint Sadurni in Barcelona. In 1994, Gloria was invited to participate at the prestigious International Latin American Art Fair in Brussels and at “7 x 7: Encuentros” at the Museo Ateneo in Caracas.

From 1993 to 1996, she was represented by Meza Fine Arts Gallery in Coral Gables and her work was featured in Art Miami ’94, ’95 and ‘96. Gloria has had solo exhibitions at the Metro Dade Cultural Center in 1997 and at the Cuban Museum of Miami in 1998.

In 2000 she participated in two group shows, at Fraga Fine Arts Gallery, “Virgenes” and “Two Ways/One Concept” and a solo show in 2003.  Since 2004, Gloria has had yearly solo exhibitions at Imaginart Gallery in Miami.  Her sculptures are part of the collections at the National Museum of Contemporary Cuban Ceramics in Havana, the Cultural Foundation in Quito, Ecuador and the Lowe Art Museum in Coral Gables, FL.

Gloria currently lives and works in Miami.  In addition to working with clay and acrylics, Gloria has executed site-specific installations and large-scale murals.

Tony Rodriguez(Juan Antonio Rodriguez Olivares) was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1980.

Juan Antonio Rodriguez Olivares

The Tower - Oil on Canvas

Flores-Carbonell Collection

Tony Rodriguez(Juan Antonio Rodriguez Olivares) was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1980.He is both a painter,illustrator and curator.He was considered in Cuba a full painter. Rodriguez has called in his countrie The Painter of the Reflection.He was professor and member of prestigious juries in the context of the visual arts.Tony Rodriguez is considered one of the best Cuban artists of the 00 generation or the generation of artists from the 2000s to the present day.In addition to exhibiting widely in Cuba, he was also shown in USA, The Dominican Republic, throughout Eastern an Western Europe and Latin America.From the beginning of his professional career Tony Rodriguez has been investigated about the world s secrets, order, society and forces of caos.He frequently uses many objects , towers, buildings,machines, etc.His citys and objects represent the world, liberty, the human future and our history.His colors are very misterius and excitings.He is aggressively with drawing and composition. He won several awards since 2000 to date. His works are exhibited in Havana Biennal in 2009.His works are exhibited in many galleries in Cuba and Europe.Tony Rodriguez’s work is part of famous art collections, such as the important Italian businessman Luciano Benetton, the Flores-Carbonell Collection and the Hispanic Cultural Center in Miami.

Pure and Beyond - Feb 3-12, 2017 at Coral Gables Museum

The Coral Gables Museum was proud to present this group exhibit as part of its Local Artist Series, which is presented on Gallery Night in Coral Gables every first Friday of the month. Featured artists have been recognized individually by the art community for their talents and collectively for the common thread that unites them – abstraction.  The Coral Gables Museum wishes to thank artists Maruchi Carmona, Bibiana Cervantes, Margarita Correa Ochoa, Mysora Garcia, Pedro Hernandez, Andres Lacau, Gloria Lorenzo, Jose Paez del Nogal, Emilio Hector Rodriguez, and Mai Yap, for their participation in this exhibit.
The Local Artist Series aims to provide a venue, voice and platform for artists to present their work as well as to provide the community with a diverse array of cultural encounters and experiences that enhance quality of life in Coral Gables.

Gloria Lorenzo

Mysora Garcia

Gloria Lorenzo

Miguel Flores & Mysora Garcia

Evelio Lecour, Gloria Lorenzo & Miguel Flores

Noel Dobarganes (Matanzas, 1977)

Noel Dobarganes

Noel Dobarganes - Gitana - Oil on Canvas - 2017

Flores-Carbonell Collection

Born in the city of Matanzas, Cuba, in 1977, Noel Dobarganes began his artistic career in a self-taught way with 17 years old. Later, he was graduated from the Professional School of Plastic Arts “Roberto Diago”. Since his 22 years old his work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in countries such as Portugal, Luxembourg, Spain, Canada and France.

For the author his works are a reflection of his creative perperctiva. He uses spontaneously and experimentally all the possible plastic resources to express in a very personal way the reality of his interior, falling into a state of trance in the creative process that exposes the beauty of the stains, colors and effects as well as the mystic sense of brushstrokes, gestures and textures. He achieves in his canvases that the dream and lyrism take supremacy over abstraction.

Throughout Noel’s artistic career, he has received a number of prizes including those in 1996, the prize and mention in the Amateurs Salon of the House of Culture in Matanzas and in 2008, the first prize of the abstract Galleria Pedro Esquerres. His works are part of prestigious collections in the United States, Portugal, Luxembourg, Belgium, Italy, Canada, Ecuador, Germany and Cuba, specifically the collection in Cuba of Cardinal Jaime Ortega, Angel Turcarelli in Luxembourg, Casino Da Povoa in Portugal and Gora Gallery in Canada. He currently lives and works in Miami, Florida.