University of Miami Special Report: Cuba and the Caribbean

Cuba & The Caribbean Special Report

  • The Environment
    • A Museum of Marine Life
    • Exploring Energy Options for Cuba
    • Working Together to Build a Sustainable Future
    • Influencing Hurricane Intensity
    • Finding Keys to Coral Survival
    • A Pregnancy Exam for Jaws
    • Protecting Flora, Fauna, and Humans in the Caribbean Biological Corridor
    • Father of Dust
    • Science as Diplomacy
  • The People
    • A Conversation with Yoani Sánchez
    • – Conversando con Yoani Sánchez
    • A Unique Cultural Perspective
    • – Una Perspectiva Cultural Única
    • Unearthing the Mysteries of the Caribbean
    • El Mar y Él
    • Helping Hands in Haiti
    • Tracing Circuitous Lines of the Black LGBTQ Experience
    • Student Organizations Embrace Caribbean Culture
    • A Winning Team
    • Exploring Shipwrecks in the Caribbean
    • Language and the Negotiation of Identities
    • Cuban Lecturer Inspires Students through Stories of Resilience
    • Chinese Influences on Life and Religion in Cuba
    • A Chinese-Cuban Secret Society in Havana
  • Business & Economy
    • Restoring Cuba’s Historic Infrastructure
    • Serving the Underserved in Dominican Republic
    • A Bright Future for Caribbean Fish
    • A Close Look at Cuba’s Health Care System
    • Studying Caribbean Currency
    • Haiti After Hurricane Matthew
  • Health Care
    • Sharing Ideas Amid a Changing Culture
    • Cuba Water Hassles
    • Sharing Insights On Trauma Care
    • Delaying Motherhood for Childhood
    • There’s Something in the Waters of Puerto Rico’s Guánica Bay
    • Health Care in Haiti
    • Missions of Mercy
    • Transforming Nursing Education in Guyana
    • Creative Insight on Cuba’s Wastewater System
    • A ‘Living Laboratory’ for Studying Multiple Sclerosis
    • A Hemispheric Approach to Bioethics and Health Policy
    • Campeche and UM Join Hands to Improve Public Health
    • Comparative Studies Could Identify IBD ‘Triggers’
    • A Close Look at Cervical Cancer in Haitian Women
  • Politics & Policy
    • A Renewed, Tenuous Relationship
    • A Trusted Ally for Leftists
    • GTMO: Mayberry with a Caribbean Breeze
    • On the Frontlines of Immigration
    • Marrying Science and Policy in The Bahamas
  • Arts & Culture
    • A UM Architect’s Connection to Cuba
    • Digital Home for Cuban Theater
    • Football Flashback: ‘Canes vs. Cuba
    • An Interdisciplinary Hemispheric Collaboration
    • Exploring Architectural Wonders
    • Sanctuaries Reveal ‘Otherworldly’ Past
    • Unexpected Reception
    • Connections to the Past
    • Havana: The ‘Rome of the New World’
    • The Lowe Features Caribbean Art
    • A Musician Grows in Cuba
    • Afro-Cuban Religion: Surviving and Thriving Underground
    • The Musical Divide of Charismatic Worship in Haiti
    • Impresiones: Sights and Sounds from Travels in Cuba
    • The Fruits of Caribbean Literary Studies
    • Jazz Cubano!
  • Centers & Institutes
    • ICCAS: A Hub for Information on Cuba at the University of Miami
    • Abess Center: Saving Coral Reefs
    • CCS: Hemispheric Collaboration
    • – CCS: Colaboración Hemisférica
    • UMIA: Collaborative Scholarship in the Americas
    • CCS: Using Computational Mapping to Communicate Culture
    • CHC: A Collection of Historical Gems
    • – CHC: La “joya” de las Colecciones Cubanas
    • UMIA: A Hub for Caribbean Research
    • UM Hillel: Connecting to Jewish Cuba
    • UM Hillel: A Vibrant Patronato, the Cuban Jewish Community
    • UM Hillel: Student Perspectives from Cuba
    • ‘Cane Talks: Examining the Culture of Cuba

The Lowe Features Caribbean Art

The Lowe Features Caribbean Art
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The Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami has a strong penchant for featuring art from its regional neighbor—the Caribbean.

The Lowe Art Museum, South Florida’s first and most comprehensive art museum, features temporary exhibitions and world-renowned innovative pieces ranging from paintings to sculpture installations. Since the opening of its free-standing facility in 1952 at the University of Miami, thanks to philanthropists Joe and Emily Lowe, the Lowe Art Museum has been a University and Greater Miami staple, showcasing timeless and resounding art pieces in various forms—from Asian antiquities to Renaissance paintings to modern and contemporary art.

With its prime location in Miami, the Gateway to the Americas, the Lowe seems to have a slight affinity for its southern neighboring region. Featuring artists and artwork from throughout the Caribbean Basin, the Lowe exhibits pieces that naturally exude certain themes and shares some common artistic techniques. Any body of work, notes Jill Deupi, has certain markers or characteristics.

“I don’t want to be reductive, but if you’re looking at the Caribbean, the influence of tropical nature, of the sea, the quality of the light, which is so different than other parts of the world, that shines through,” says Deupi, Beaux Arts director and chief curator of the Lowe. “There is also this history of colonialism, of oppression, in various contexts, that also comes through; how could it not? It’s part of the fabric of the history of the Caribbean.”

About the Photo

Artwork from the Emilio Sánchez in South Florida Collections show at the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami. The label is:

Emilio Sánchez
Yellow House, 1965
Oil on canvas
© Emilio Sanchez Foundation

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Considering the influence that Cuban immigrants have had on South Florida, the Lowe is also quite proud of its Cuban art collection. In addition to traveling exhibits by and about Cuban and Cuban-American artists, the Lowe also has in its permanent collection about 500 works from the defunct Cuban Museum of Arts and Culture, which had opened in the 1970s. After being entangled with controversy, enduring threats of violence and being bombed twice, the museum closed in 1999 and donated its collection to the Lowe.

“The bulk of those objects are from the post-revolutionary period, so from the 1960s onward, and we’re working very hard to make sure that those objects are shown with greater regularity,” says Deupi, who has a close connection to the island: her husband of 25 years is Victor Deupi, Cuban-American architect and lecturer at the School of Architecture.

Jill Deupi, Beaux Arts director and chief curator of the Lowe Art Museum discusses Cuban and Caribbean art at the Lowe.

Though there are some repeating tropes of politics, exile and oppression in Cuban art, with its obvious potent political history, Deupi encourages those experiencing the art to see beyond what may seem obvious and instead decipher what the artist, as an individual, is trying to express.

“You’re going to find a range of expression that really speaks to the depth of humanity, beyond the Cuban experience, beyond the exile experience,” says Deupi.

“It’s an apt reminder, something that I think about all the time, that art is what makes us human. It’s the marker of our time on earth and our passage through this world, both as an individual and collectively.”

- JESSICA M. CASTILLO / UM News

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