Carlos Alfonzo: Late Paintings

A companion to ICA Miami’s exhibition “Carlos Alfonzo: Late Paintings,” this publication
offers an expansive view of Alfonzo’s body of work. The first part of the book provides
the most comprehensive gathering of Alfonzo’s last works—a body of paintings that
straddles between a response to the AIDS crisis and Alfonzo’s deep exploration of art
historical tropes. The second part of the book brings together works from the rest of
Alfonzo’s career, from drawings and sculptures he produced in Havana in the late 1970s
to the dynamic compositions that brought him international recognition in the 1980s.
The first monograph dedicated to the artist in over twenty-five years, this publication fills
an art historical gap with newly commissioned scholarship, materials drawn from
archives, and a comprehensive selection of paintings.