Who Is Andrés Conde?
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.
The Artist Artist’s Love
Deeply respected by his peers, Ernesto Capdevila moves effortlessly between the verbal and visual, creating work that explores consciousness, belonging, memory, and the hidden territories of the subconscious mind.
Personal Cosmology | The Art of Andrés Conde
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.
Barbara Hulanicki, Biba, and the Birth of the Lifestyle Brand
Long before the term "lifestyle brand" entered the lexicon, Barbara Hulanicki was creating immersive worlds that blended art, fashion, illustration, interiors, and fantasy into a singular cultural experience.
The Masked Man
Rubén Torres Llorca, a master of Cuban conceptual art, blends sharp wit, unflinching critique, and technical mastery across media. In this profile, curator and gallerist Stacy Conde shares personal stories and insights into Llorca's fearless approach to art, life, and the absurdities of the human condition.
Rubén, Rubén, Rubén.
It's been incredibly well documented that Rubén Torres Llorca pulls no punches. He refuses to play "the game." That's not entirely true. He'll play, but by his rules, on his court, and with his ball. Si te gusta bien, y si no, también.
Andrés Conde
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.
Danco Duportai García in Mexico City
The young Cuban artist living and working in Mexico is expanding, literally. While his entire body of work deals with memory, normally in the form of miniature momentos frozen in time and place, he has begun to paint larger works on the same theme. Duportai is a graduate of the esteemed La Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, San Alejandro in Havana. His work has been shown in Havana, Miami, Paris and Los Angeles, as well as in the PAN Museum of Contemporary Art, Naples, Italy.
Three From Chile
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.