The work of Havana-born artist Luis Cruz Azaceta is complex and syncretic, a fusion of his Cuban roots and the culture of New York City, his adoptive home. By creating scenes fraught with alienation and isolation, he explores the social, cultural, and psychological fragmentation that he has experienced as a Cuban exile living in the United States.

The Scream, much like the painting of the same name
executed by the Norwegian Expressionist artist Edvard Munch, is an iconic statement on the human condition. The vivid, almost garish palette employed by Cruz Azaceta is
unsettling, as is the grisly image created by the Kafkaesque severed and horned head that stares out with one pain-crazed eye and an open, screaming mouth. This work exemplifies the artist's emphasis on the anxiety of urban life through harsh colors, energetic forms, and grotesque, anguished figures.

Cruz Azaceta studied with the famed Neo-Expressionist artist Leo Golub and has been represented by New York's prestigious Frumkin Gallery since the mid-1970s. His work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Smithsonian Institution.

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