Luis Cruz Azaceta is a Cuban American painter, born in 1942, who has been painting and drawing since the late 1970s. Working usually in large format pieces executed with expressive colors, he has dealt with themes of urban violence, personal isolation in large and overcrowded cities, the conditions created by mismanaged government, the abuses and oppression of dictatorships, and, in a number of works from the late 1980s, the ravages of AIDS.
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In 1975, he had his first solo show at the Allan Frumkin Gallery on 57th Street, exhibiting works from the Subway Series.
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In 1975, he had his first solo show at the Allan Frumkin Gallery on 57th Street, exhibiting works from the Subway Series.
Practices: Painting, Lead
is a Cuban-American painter
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