The imagery of Carlos Luna is filled with complex patterns and a wealth of detail that serve as the setting for figures, objects, animals, and other arcane symbols that both emerge and merge in his...

As intensely as I admire "Pablo Picasso Ceramics/Carlos Luna Paintings," the splashy new exhibition at the Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale, I can't help but wonder whether a lot of people...

It is sometimes difficult to reconstruct the birth of an idea. Showing the paintings of contemporary artist Carlos Luna (b. Cuba, 1969) alongside the ceramics of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is one of...

Who is the artist Carlos Luna? Carlos Luna would say that he is a Cuban artist, and this is true in the sense that he was born on the island in 1969, in the tobacco center of Pinar del Rio. He...

…the “center-periphery” model is a false interpretation of the history of...

JR: How did Carlos Luna, the painter, emerge?CL: I'm going to confess something that I haven't made public before.  Only a few people know about this situation; however, it may help to...

Viewers standing before Carlos Luna’s El Gran Mambo (2006, oil on canvas, 144" X 192") will confront a very clear order telling them what they must do. In Spanish, the text reads...

Any artist is bound to paint aspects of his own autobiography and construct an iconography that is uniquely his own. Carlos Luna is such an artist. The Cuban-born painter moves the viewer through his...