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Artist Spotlight
Carlos Llanes - Works in OilCarlos Llanes is one of the most distinctive Cuban painters of his generation, born in Melena del Sur, Cuba, and trained as an architect at the University of Havana. Llanes has exhibited his work internationally for decades, with paintings held in major museum collections worldwide.His artistic life took a pivotal turn after immigrating to the United States for medical treatment of a brain tumor, which deepened his engagement with themes of family, migration, cultural dislocation, and the emotional imprint of landscape.Whether working on canvas, rum filters, or paper, Llanes creates visual vocabularies that are at once intimate and universal.One of the most striking aspects of Llanes’s practice is his versatility across media. His acrylic paintings and works on paper often carry a spontaneous, faux-naive, and whimsical quality.In contrast, his oil paintings inhabit a very different emotional and material territory. Here, Llanes becomes a builder of surfaces: layering, scraping, erasing, and re-layering over long periods of time until the canvas holds the gravitas of accumulated experience.In oil, his process becomes archaeological, each stratum revealing and concealing earlier decisions, much like the slow unveiling of true purpose through hindsight.These canvases carry the sense of time made visible: pigments compressed into dense, atmospheric fields; marks resurfacing like half-forgotten traces; colors muted to the tonal registers of dusk, depth, and introspection.Through the slow accumulation of oil, erasure, and re-emergence, Llanes’s mastery of mood through material creates surfaces that feel lived, weathered, and deeply human. -
New Arrivals
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Marta Estrems
featured artist Argentian artist Marta Estrems, one of the leading Latin American Abstractionists, imbues her ethereal and often enigmatic canvasses with a powerful repertoire of emotional depth, kinetic energy and visual imagery, evoking complex connotations within deeper layers of the viewers' intuitive perception.
Her work is a form of meditation, an invitation to quiet the noise of the external world and to slow down to access the deeper layers of the self and human interconnectedness.
Marta Estrems' paintings seek to visualize the human capacity to connect with nature and each other, focussing on the inexpressible, the intangible, and the immaterial, with her abstract canvasses forming a bridge between our inner and outer world experiences.
Marta Estrems (born in 1949 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina) received most of her professional training in Buenos Aires and initially pursued studies at the Manuel Belgrano National School of Fine Arts, where she obtained a degree in teaching visual arts. She later studied in the Master of fine arts program, majoring in drawing, painting, and sculpture at the Prilidiano Pueryrredon National School of Fine Arts. She moved to the United States in 1987 and lives and works in Miami.
Throughout her career, Estrems has participated in more than twenty exhibitions in Argentina, Italy, Spain, and the United States. Her work has been shown in cultural institutions such as PIAG Museum (Coral Gables, FL), Armory Art Center (West Palm Beach, FL), the Alvin Sherman Library (Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale), and the Latino Art Museum (Pomona, CA) among others. Her most recent solo exhibition includes “Containment: The Tao of Aesthetics” (Arch Gallery, Miami, 2012) and “Painting and Drawings by Marta Estrems” (Miami Beach Botanical Garden, 2008). -
C. Louis Blank
CHARLES LOUIS BLANK (B. HAMMOND, LOUISIANA, 1948) HAS BEEN WORKING AS A CONTEMPORARY ARTIST FOR OVER 50 YEARS. HE RECEIVED HIS TRAINING AT LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY. EARLY IN HIS CAREER, HIS DREAM-LIKE PAINTINGS OF DISQUIETING FIGURES, WHICH INCORPORATED MYSTICISM, ICONIC DISTORTION, AND PICTORIAL DRAMA, LABELED HIM AS ONE OF THE FEW "VISIONARY IMAGISTS" OF THE TIME.
HE ACHIEVED FAME IN THE 1980S. IN 1994, HE WAS FORCED TO STEP BACK FROM THE ART WORLD DUE TO HIS DETERIORATING MENTAL HEALTH BUT HAS CONTINUED TO EVOLVE WITHIN HIS PAINTINGS EVER SINCE.
AROUND 2010, FOLLOWING HIS MOTHER'S PASSING, HE BECAME ENTIRELY HOMEBOUND. HIS WORK TRANSITIONED BETWEEN THE OX FIELD BEHIND HIS HOUSE AND PURE ABSTRACTION, INCORPORATING HIS EXPRESSIONIST COLOR SCHEME AND STYLE OF THICKLY LAYERED PAINT. HE DRAWS FROM THE VOCABULARY OF LOUISIANA’S CULTURAL HERITAGE AND HIS DYSTOPIAN, SURREALISTIC LANDSCAPES ACT AS A FOIL TO THE BUCOLIC NOSTALGIA OF HIS OX FIELD SERIES, A METAPHOR OF A COUNTRY ONLY EXISTING AS A MEMORY AND THE SENSE OF IMPENDING ERADICATION ENCAPSULATED IN THE SMALL STRIP OF LAND AS A LAST STRONGHOLD.
BLANK'S WORKS ARE PART OF THE PERMANENT COLLECTION IN THE NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART AND THE HUNTSVILLE MUSEUM OF ART
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Evey Gallery & Art Foundation
Palm BeachEVEY GALLERY
EVEY Gallery is a contemporary art space with locations in New York and Palm Beach, dedicated to presenting bold, thought-provoking exhibitions by both established and mid-career artists. In addition to its year-round program, the gallery participates in leading art fairs and collaborates with museums, curators, and cultural institutions to expand the visibility of its artists on an international scale. Guided by a belief in the transformative power of art, EVEY Gallery champions work that shapes cultural discourse and leaves a lasting impact.EVEY ART FOUNDATION
The EVEY Art Foundation, established as the nonprofit arm of the gallery, extends this mission beyond the commercial sphere into education, public engagement, and cultural accessibility. Through workshops, lectures, artist residencies, and grant programs, the foundation supports artists at all stages of their careers while making art accessible to diverse communities. Its initiatives include offering studio space, producing community-driven art projects, and providing resources for artists to explore new ideas. The foundation also fosters research, publications, and collaborative exhibitions that connect art with communities facing socioeconomic challenges.A Shared Mission
Together, EVEY Gallery and the EVEY Art Foundation create a dynamic ecosystem where art can flourish both as a cultural force and a public good. From South Florida to New York and cities across the country, they remain committed to making art accessible, impactful, and a vibrant part of public life.
