Afro-Cuban artist, Gertrudis Rivalta, brings into fruition multidimensional universes through oil, watercolors, sequins, drawing, photography, video, writing, and performance. Selected Her vast oeuvre, created over three decades, meticulously reconstructs hegemonic accounts of history into which individuals and communities are inculcated. Born and educated in Cuba, a graduate of the Instituto Superior de Arte, Rivalta subjects Cuba’s society from the colonial period to the present to her vision, as intellectual as it is playful, joyous, embittered, and cutting. Her gaze generally insists upon Cuba’s connection to other parts of the world through discovery, forced migration and labor, world wars, other international crises, nature, the arts, sports, science, and material culture. Even in her drawings of utility objects, flowers, and clothing, the power dynamics that shape perception are foregrounded. There is no denying the “virtuosity and assurance of the technique,” implemented in Rivalta’s work.