To view Andrés Conde's paintings solely through the lens of nostalgia is to miss something essential. While his work frequently draws upon the architecture, glamour, and visual culture of pre-revolutionary Cuba, these images are not simply romantic recollections of a vanished world. They are reminders.

Surface & Subtext traces Cuban-American artist Andrés Conde’s evolution in pop-realist painting—where beauty meets meaning. View works, ephemera, and his acclaimed SOCIAL series, available through Conde Contemporary.

Andres Conde, a visual artist born in the vibrant city of Havana in 1968, embarked on an artistic odyssey shaped by displacement, political tumult, and an ever-evolving quest for creative expression. Uprooted from his Cuban roots as a child, Conde's journey traversed Havana, Madrid, New York, and eventually settled in Miami, infusing his art with a diverse spectrum of cultural influences.

In Latin American art, something more intelligent, more human, is emerging, from colossal Olmec heads and gold Inca figurines, through the paintings of Dr. Atl, the Mexican muralists and the grande dame of Salvadoran painting Rosa Mena Valenzuela, Latin American art has always been humanistic, representational and figurative.