This March 25, 1991, New York Magazine profile by Kay Larson of Luiz Cruz Azaceta laments "I miss the searing metaphors and dark-night monologues of David Wojnarowicz, who has set a standard for AIDS painting that hasn't yet been surpassed, by fusing the personal and political in a blinding flash of survivor's panic."
This nola.com article featuring Luis Cruz Azaceta's 2009 New Orleans Museum of Art exhibition has a bit of more recent bio.
"Azaceta is an award-winning artist whose work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, plus 60 other museums across the world... He can be a color-crazy abstract painter, a wildly inventive junk sculptor, or a master collage maker who specializes in grids of snapshots.
"Once the work becomes mechanical, then I stop right there, " he said of his mercurial style. "Because I like to be surprised and engaged by the process of the work."... All of the tiny, mournful figures that haunt his canvases are him...
He says he doesn't include self-portraits "as a narcissist to display myself, but as a vehicle to convey certain political and social conditions; an actor playing different roles. I can make a self portrait as an aggressor or a victim.""
Pictures of his amazing early work at George Adams Gallery and his amazing recent work at Arthur Roger Gallery, including photographs on cooking pots. I hope he makes it back to Cuba.
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