Who is Gustavo Acosta? Discover the life and work of the Cuban contemporary painter known for his luminous architectural landscapes, international exhibitions, and meditative explorations of the modern city.

Alon Skuy is a South African-born photojournalist and fine art photographer whose powerful images document the lives of individuals and communities often overlooked by mainstream narratives. Through empathy, observation, and visual storytelling, his work reveals the resilience, dignity, and humanity that connect people across cultures and circumstances.

Aimee Perez creates sculptures that transform personal experience into universal stories. Through expressive figures, found objects, and symbolic forms, the Cuban artist, living in Miami, explores spirituality, resilience, grief, comfort, and the emotional truths that connect us across cultures and generations.

Alon Skuy is a South African-born photojournalist and fine art photographer whose powerful images document the lives of individuals and communities often overlooked by mainstream narratives. Through compassionate visual storytelling, his work explores resilience, identity, belonging, and the enduring strength of the human spirit.

Pablo Santibáñez Servat is a Chilean-born contemporary painter whose richly symbolic works explore history, mythology, religion, cultural identity, and the enduring exchange of ideas between civilizations. Combining Old Master techniques with magical realism, he creates paintings that invite viewers to explore the deeper stories shaping human experience.

Kevin Sloan's paintings are filled with birds, animals, clocks, flowers, and mysterious objects, but they are not simply images of the natural world. Through a rich symbolic language, Sloan explores questions of memory, mortality, wonder, and our relationship to the living world. His work invites viewers to slow down, look carefully, and discover meaning that unfolds over time.

Andrés Conde is a Cuban-American painter known for his narrative realism, distinctive portrayals of women, and the ongoing SOCIAL series, a project exploring memory, identity, nostalgia, and Cuban cultural history through imagined magazine covers and visual storytelling.

Surface & Subtext presents both the art and the ephemera of a life lived across continents, tracing the evolution of an artist who insists that beauty can confront history, and that painting can witness both chaos and renewal.

By centering the theme of “I see you,” Sawubona challenges us to move beyond preconceived notions and assumptions, fostering a space of recognition, respect, and connection.

In this conversation with Stacy Conde, artist Kevin Sloan reflects on nature, memory, symbolism, and the sacred, exploring the personal experiences and observations that inform his richly allegorical paintings.

Known for his acclaimed SOCIAL series and psychologically charged portraits, Andrés Conde creates paintings that explore beauty, historical memory, resilience, and the enduring complexities of the human condition.

These three South American artists, Pablo Santibáñez Servat, Giovanni Gellona, and Antonio Cavagnaro, possess great technical skill and fertile imaginations. They are each deeply rooted in symbology and cultural iconography which crosses ethnological divisions. All three manage to maintain a graceful sense of aesthetic values while communicating an often blood soaked narrative. They are, individually, an incredibly rare find, unicorns even, and I am incredibly grateful to work them.

Originally published in 2016, writer John Sevigny examines a shift away from spectacle-driven contemporary art and argues for a renewed appreciation of representation, technical mastery, and the human figure, highlighting artists represented by Conde Contemporary.