ExhibitionJune 13, 2022
Baruj Salinas
Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Cuban Legacy Gallery, in collaboration with the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, are presenting Baruj Salinas: 1972–2022. a thematic survey of the Miami-based Cuban American painter’s abstract work spanning fifty years of his artistic career. The exhibition will be on view until August 14, 2022.
Baruj Salinas was born in 1935 in Havana, Cuba; in 1958 obtained a degree in Architecture from Kent State University in Ohio. He was exiled from Cuba in 1959 and lived in Miami during the 1960s; he co-founded the Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos (GALA) with other abstract artists, including Rafael Soriano and José Mijares. He was awarded the Cintas Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts in 1969 and 1970. Salinas was trained and worked as an architect but has created abstract works in a gestural, expressionist style since the early 1960s. Influenced by philosophy, music, and literature, he has also explored a lifelong interest in cosmology in his art. Living in Barcelona during the 1970s, he associated with Spanish painters, including Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies, and in 1977 embarked upon an extensive series of works based on clouds.
Baruj Salinas: 1972–2022 features 40 works and includes paintings, works on paper, glazed ceramics, and an artist’s book. The works are borrowed from Miami collections, including that of the Cintas Foundation. The exhibition is organized into four thematic sections: Cosmogonies, Inhabitant of the Clouds, Forests and Telluric Forces, and The Torah Project. A brochure with an essay by guest curator Adriana Herrera accompanies the exhibition.
For more information, visit: The Cuban | American Museum of The Cuban Diaspora.
Baruj Salinas was born in 1935 in Havana, Cuba; in 1958 obtained a degree in Architecture from Kent State University in Ohio. He was exiled from Cuba in 1959 and lived in Miami during the 1960s; he co-founded the Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos (GALA) with other abstract artists, including Rafael Soriano and José Mijares. He was awarded the Cintas Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts in 1969 and 1970. Salinas was trained and worked as an architect but has created abstract works in a gestural, expressionist style since the early 1960s. Influenced by philosophy, music, and literature, he has also explored a lifelong interest in cosmology in his art. Living in Barcelona during the 1970s, he associated with Spanish painters, including Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies, and in 1977 embarked upon an extensive series of works based on clouds.
Baruj Salinas: 1972–2022 features 40 works and includes paintings, works on paper, glazed ceramics, and an artist’s book. The works are borrowed from Miami collections, including that of the Cintas Foundation. The exhibition is organized into four thematic sections: Cosmogonies, Inhabitant of the Clouds, Forests and Telluric Forces, and The Torah Project. A brochure with an essay by guest curator Adriana Herrera accompanies the exhibition.
For more information, visit: The Cuban | American Museum of The Cuban Diaspora.
