Baruj Salinas

By LatAm ARTE

Baruj Salinas is a Cuban-born American artist. His body of work consists of collage and painted depictions of architectural motifs, landscapes, and organic pes, which dissolve in and out of abstraction. Born in 1938 in Havana, Cuba, he studied architecture at Kent State University in Ohio before moving to Barcelona, Spain in the 1970s. It was there that he first saw the work of Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies. He would then incorporate a heavy application of paint with the non-representational abstraction found in their works to his own oeuvre. The artist’s paintings can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City, and the Phoenix Museum of Art, among others. Salinas lives and works in Miami, Florida. ...more ...less