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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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