#PostcardsFromTheEdge is only 9 days away. Preview Party, Friday Jan29th. #MarkYourCalendar #art #painting #PFTE2016

#HughSteers’ painting “Poster”, 1990. #ArtAIDSAmerica. @tacomaartmuseum. #SilenceEqualsDeath #activism #painting #AIDS (Visual AIDS to launch a new book on Hugh Steers later this month!)

#Painting #pink #panties for Visual AIDS. Find out why May 18!

tomakeyounervous:

Patrick Angus

ufansius:

Afraid of Clowns - Carlos Alfonzo

jesuisperdu:

carlos almaraz

Solo Crash, 1981

[oil on canvas; 35 x 43 in.]

ufansius:

Sunset Crash - Carlos Almaraz

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Carlos Almaraz. Cars Burning on Beach, 1986. Pastel on paper, 30 x 20".

(via darksilenceinsuburbia)

lvmdayofdead:

In remembrance of Carlos Alfonzo (Cuban Artist, 1950-1991)

Carlos Alfonzo is one of those artists who lived a short life but was still able to put out incredible work. He was born in Havana, Cuba in the 1950s he become academically successful receiving degrees in art from the Academia San Alejandro and the University, eventually teaching and exhibiting in Cuba. Despite that he couldn’t take the difficult conditions he lived in so he went to the USA aboard the Mariel boat lift. It took him two years to get his life together in order to continue doing art, which gathered an instant following.

While Alfonzo’s early work was bright and focused on Greek and Afro – Cuban mythology, his later work became darker and more surreal. In the year 1991 he passed away in Miami, Florida. His work was exhibited into the late 2000s and if you look at his art, you can tell what a great artist he was and how he could’ve became better. Like so many other artists this ofrenda is for what was and what could’ve been.

View some of his works online at the Smithsonian American Art Museum website.