Alejandro Mendoza is one of Cuba’s most diverse and intensely driven contemporary sculptors. His career in the U.S., particularly in South Florida, has had far-reaching impact. His work is constantly evolving
yet maintains an aesthetic and personal integrity. His sculpture, in particular, is unafraid of venturing into different themes and tones-from defense of natural world to explorations of the personal and collective uncon- scious. His work boldly explores a wide range of formal concerns and draws on and fuses such diverse references as nature, urban detritus, and the dream state, and he does this in works whose deceptive simplicity and presentational immediacy allows them to be enjoyed by people with cultivated and popular tastes alike.
