Purvis Young: Drawings Featured illustrations

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Gata’s works create incredible stories based on his own experience of immigration as well as the diasporic conditions of Cuba in the Caribbean

sculptural forms based on the scale of his body

Purvis Young: Drawings Featured illustrationsThrough his body of work, Purvis Young (b. 1943, Miami; d. 2010, Miami) built an expressive record and a political commentary on life in the Miami neighborhood of Overtown. Realized on found and often distressed supports, Youngs works are populated by a recurring set of motifs that includes angels and ancestors, refugees and prisoners, pregnant women and protestors, soldiers, and workersall drawn from his immediate environment and from the aspirations