About the Artist: Lia Galletti

Electrically charged and visually abstract, the surface of a Lia Galletti painting pulsates as it draws the viewer into the composition. Stylistically Galletti can be linked to Abstract Expressionism and the Action Painting School of New York. Her schedule of exhibits in the United States has nearly doubled and includes shows in Miami, Washington D.C. and Boston. She has also exhibited her work internationally in San Juan, Canada, Spain and Israel.

Lia Galletti left her native Cuba in 1960 and came to New York. Galletti has achieved a degree of mastery in abstraction like no other Cuban painter has since the pioneering abstraction of the Los Once group made its way onto the Havana art scene briefly in the 1950's.

Awards: State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Honorable Mention: Visual Arts/Painting Award; Purchase Prize, The Boston Printmakers, 40th North American Print Exhibition, Brockton Art Museum, MA.

Public Collections: The Boston Print Makers at the Brockton Art Museum, Boston, MA; Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, PR; The Art Museum of the Americas at the Organization of American States, Washington, DC.