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One hundred years after her birth, this exhibition celebrates the life and
work of Gina Pellón, whose paintings, collages, and works on paper occupy
a distinctive place within Cuban art in exile.
Pellón forged a visual language of expressionism with luminous color and
free-flowing line. Women, faces, and gatherings recur throughout her work,
emerging from striking fields of pigment in compositions positioned between
abstraction and figuration. Critics described the animating spirit of her
work as “the joy of being.”
Pellón was born in Cuba on December 26, 1926, in the former province of Las
Villas. She studied for six years at Havana’s Academy of San Alejandro and
later taught drawing at the Polytechnic Institute of Vedado. Her experience
as an educator coincided with the development of a spontaneity that would
remain central to her art. During these years, she encountered the gestural
freedoms and intense color of American Abstract Expressionism.
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