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Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

b. 1961

Gary Cruz begins his creative process with the camera on his phone. Trained as an architect and designer, Cruz has a particular interest in creating and conflating depth within the pictorial plane. His final images compress space where the back is front and outside is inside. Past, present and future coexist simultaneously in his work where space is ambiguous. The works embody the duality of contemporary photographic techniques and the tradition of gestural painting. Cruz earned a degree in architecture from the University of Texas, Austin, Texas. He attended the Bronx Museum of the Arts, AIM Program, Bronx, New York. Cruz is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Grant and Robert Rauschenberg Change Inc. Grant. A native of Texas, Cruz now lives and works in New York City.

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Artist: Gary Cruz
Mondi VI, 2025, Curacao, Unique pigment print, digitally made by hand
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Mondi VI, 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. Sig...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Purple Heart, 2025, Curacao, Unique pigment print, digitally made by hand
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Purple Heart, 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....
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Kurason Lila, 2025, Curacao, Unique pigment print, digitally made by hand
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Kurason Lila, 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....
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Paars Hart, 2025, Curacao, Unique pigment print, digitally made by hand
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Paars Hart, 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. S...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Het Tuinpad I, 2025, Curacao, Unique pigment print, digitally made by hand
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Het Tuinpad I, 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...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

The Garden, 2025, Curacao, Unique pigment print, digitally made by hand
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
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. S...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Kadushi I Shelu, 2025, Curacao, Unique pigment print, digitally made by hand
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Kadushi I Shelu, 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 ed...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Flor, 2025, Curacao, Unique pigment print, digitally made by hand, pink flower
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Flor, 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. "This began with a tiny flower—something small enough to overlook. I wanted to enlarge it until it became vast and immersive. The title, Flor, means “flower” in Papiamento. I think of it as both a gesture toward Curaçao’s language and a meditation on attention. Like Georgia O’Keeffe’s flowers...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Mondi I, 2025, Curacao, Unique pigment print, digitally made by hand
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Mondi I, 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. Sign...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Het Tuinpad II, 2025, Curacao, Unique pigment print, digitally made by hand
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Het Tuinpad II, 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 edg...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Retina #6, 2022, digitally handmade print, edition of 3, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Retina #6, an edition of 3, is part of the artist's "At The Center of Seeing" Series. This archival pigment print is printed on Epson Enhanced Matte paper. Image size is 22" x 16" ...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Retina #7, 2022, digitally made abstract print, edition of 3, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Retina #7, an edition of 3, is part of the artist's "At The Center of Seeing" Series. In the image, the golden center blossoms outward in six luminous points, like petals or rays ...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Red Eye #3, 2022, digitally made abstract print, edition of 3, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Red Eye #3 from At the Center of Seeing carries an especially charged and enigmatic energy. At its core, a glowing orb hovers in a dark void, as if suspended between emergence and e...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Iris Eye #25, 2022, digitally made abstract print, edition of 3, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
In Iris Eye #25, concentric rings anchor the composition, pulling the gaze inward toward a dense, radiant core. The symmetry is stable yet alive, as if vibrating with hidden movement...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Retina #12, 2022, digitally handmade print, edition of 3, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
This image centers on a six-petaled form that blooms like a mandala, its rounded shapes encircled in bold dark lines. The palette radiates warmth—ochres, deep browns, and luminous go...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Retina #13, 2022, digitally handmade print, edition of 3, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
In this work from At the Center of Seeing, a dark, six-pointed star anchors the center, radiating outward in pulses of amber, peach, and glowing white. The form is sharp yet dissolvi...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Retina #9, 2022, abstract digitally made print, edition 2 of 3, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Retina #9, edition of 2 of 3, is part of the artist's "At The Center of Seeing" Series. This image radiates with a quiet luminosity, its pale gold and ivory tones softening into a ...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Retina #10, 2022, digitally made abstract print, edition of 3, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Retina #10, an edition of 3, is part of the artist's "At The Center of Seeing" Series. Like a burst of vision at the moment of perception, six radiant forms extend from a darkened...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Red Eye #4, 2022, digitally made abstract print, edition of 3, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Red Eye #4 intensifies the series’ exploration of perception and vision. Here, a dark circular void sits at the center, like a pupil pulled into infinite depth. Radiating outward ar...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Red Eye #1, 2022, digitally made abstract print, edition of 3, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
In Red Eye #1, the palette is saturated with crimson and ember-like tones, evoking heat, intensity, and an almost bodily vibration. A central star shape anchors the composition, radi...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Pupil #10, 2022, digitally made abstract print, edition of 3, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Pupil #10 blooms outward like a radiant mandala, its six-petaled form evoking both a flower in full opening and the geometric harmony of a stained-glass rose window. This work feels...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Red Eye #6, 2022, digitally made abstract print, edition of 3, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Red Eye #6 continues the inward journey of At the Center of Seeing, shifting from fiery intensity toward a more diffused, radiant glow. At its center, a soft golden orb hovers like ...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Pupil #2, 2022, digitally made abstract print, edition of 3, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Pupil #2 suggests a rose window, a star chart, or a rotating mandala. The faint, glowing greenish points orbiting the darkened center also carry the implication of a clock face, with...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Iris Eye #12, 2022, digitally made abstract print, edition of 3 signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Iris Eye #12, radiates like a solar mandala: a central, golden nucleus encircled by repeating petal-like arcs that resemble both organic growth and mechanical precision. The symmetry...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Iris Eye #11, 2022, digitally made abstract print, edition of 3, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Iris Eye #11, feels lighter and more architectural than some of the others in the Iris Eye series. The central pale star, with its softened hexagonal geometry, radiates outward like ...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Pupil #5, 2022, digitally made abstract print, edition of 3, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
In Pupil #5, this composition feels more iconographic and symbolic, almost altar-like. The eye has become less about perception and more about presence—an emblem or vessel holding meaning. At the center-bottom, a pale, egg-shaped form rises above a deep violet structure that resembles both a heart and a pair of unfurling scrolls. This motif carries associations of birth, fertility, and transformation, as if the pupil has turned inward to reveal a seed of becoming. Above it, faint concentric rings form a flower-like pattern, encircled by delicate white marks that suggest both orbiting satellites and the notches of a clock. Time, in this work, feels suspended, it hovers in a state of expectancy, like the pause before emergence. The muted palette—lavender, rose, smoky brown—further emphasizes the contemplative quality. Pupil #5 reads like an inner diagram of potential, a moment of quiet before transformation. In the language of the series, it occupies the space between measurement and blossoming: the seed of sight itself, holding within it both time and vision yet to unfold. This archival pigment print is printed on Epson Enhanced Matte paper. Image size is 28" x 16" with a 1" white border...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Iris Eye #13, 2022, digitally made abstract print, edition of 2, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Iris Eye #13, feels like a blossoming aperture—its center a radiant star encircled by deep magenta segments that suggest both iris fibers and flower petals. The repeated arc forms b...
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2010s Abstract Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Pupil #1, 2022, digitally made abstract print, edition of 2/3, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Pupil #1, opens into a quieter, meditative, and contemplative geometry. Here, a dark core anchors the composition, radiating petal-like forms that seem to dilate outward, echoing bo...
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2010s Contemporary Gary Cruz Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

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