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Gary Cruz
The Garden, 2025, Curacao, Unique pigment print, digitally made by hand

2025

About the Item

The Garden, is part of the artist's "The Curacao Pictures" Series. This one-of-a- kind, archival pigment print is printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag bright paper with a deckled edge. Signed on the Verso. Drawn from a photograph of dense tropical vegetation, The Garden compresses Curaçao’s abundance into a single radiant field. Layers of vivid color evoke both the island’s sensory intensity and the act of perceiving it. In spirit, the work resonates with Wifredo Lam’s vision of the Caribbean as a space of transformation and hybridity—nature reimagined as rhythm, compression, and luminous motion. Gary Cruz’s Curaçao Pictures transform encounters with the island’s light, landscape, and atmosphere into radiant digital abstractions. Created on-site with a smartphone, each image begins as a photograph—flowers, palms, gardens, sand, or sea—then evolves through improvisational editing that mirrors a painter’s touch. These works blur the boundary between photography, painting, and printing, merging immediacy with reflection. Over time, the series has grown increasingly abstract and architectonic: forms sharpen, colors intensify, and energy becomes structure. Yet each image retains its origin in lived experience—the sensory charge of Curaçao’s landscape and its multilingual, layered culture. Together, they form a decade-long dialogue between perception and transformation, where technology becomes a plein air instrument and light itself becomes material. Mr. Cruz is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Grant and the Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship. His first solo show was at White Columns, New York City in 2003, and his latest was in Curacao in 2024. Framing is recommended before shipping. All work is shipped flat.
  • Creator:
    Gary Cruz (1961)
  • Creation Year:
    2025
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 21 in (53.34 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)
  • Medium:
    Archival Pigment
  • Movement & Style:
    Abstract
  • Period:
    2010-
  • Framing:
    Framing Options Available
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2014217183512