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Gary CruzKadushi I Shelu, 2025, Curacao, Unique pigment print, digitally made by hand2025
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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 edge. Signed on the Verso.
"The title means Cactus and Sky in Papiamento. This image began with a photograph of a kadushi, the tall columnar cactus that fills Curaçao’s arid landscape. I’ve always been drawn to how these cacti reach upward, their vertical forms cutting into the sky like architecture. In this work, the greens, browns, and blues fold into one another until the distinction between plant and air dissolves. The composition echoes the dry light of the island and, at times, reminds me of the desert landscapes of the American Southwest. It’s a meeting point between earth and atmosphere—between what grows and what surrounds it." - Gary Cruz
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.
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- Creator:Gary Cruz (1961)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 21 in (53.34 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2014217183592
Gary Cruz
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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