Palm Beach Artworks on Display: Explore the Current Space

Eric Alfaro trained classically, at the Academy of Arts in Havana.  What he paints now doesn't look classical. He works in oil and acrylic, building color and form with brushes and spatulas until the paint sits up off the canvas in dimensional ridges, a technique that has earned him the nickname "the Modern-Day Monet" among collectors who follow his work. The finished piece carries both the discipline of observation and the freedom of a painter who has stopped needing to prove his technique.

Two works are on view in Palm Beach. Blue Nights is a floral still life in royal blue and cobalt tones, a vase of blooms rendered with the impasto density that has become Alfaro's signature. Love Letter extends the same still life practice into more intimate territory, part of a body of work built around domestic and romantic subjects that Alfaro returns to across multiple series. Cuban-American and based in the United States, Alfaro's work is held in private collections across more than thirty countries, including the Lincoln Center Orchestra's collection in New York, and has been published in CdeCuba Art Magazine and Four Seasons Magazine.