Contemplating Serenity Painting

Pedro A. Figueredo is an visual artist working in painting, artists’ books, collage, and box constructions. He was born in Bayamo, Cuba, grew up in New York City, and now resides in Little Havana neighborhood, Miami, Florida. Figueredo’s creates lyrical abstract artworks inspired by nature, music, literature, and emotions. He uses spontaneous gestures and precise application of paint to achieve a harmonious composition of colors, layers, and luminosity. Figueredo has exhibited his paintings and artists’ books at the Galeria Adelmo (Miami, Florida), ArtServe (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida), Art Center/South Florida (Miami Beach, Florida), Arts Garage (Delray Beach, Florida); Archbishop John C. Favalora Archive and Museum, St. Thomas University (Miami Gardens, Florida), Bienes Museum of the Book Arts (Fort Lauderdale, Florida), Rev. Jorge A. Sardiñas Gallery, St. Thomas University (Miami Gardens, Florida), and at the Miami-Dade Public Library System (Miami, Florida). His paintings have been published in the exhibition catalog “Catalyst” (2016) issued by ArtServe (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida), and in the Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer 2013) issued by St. Thomas University. Figueredo holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Columbia University, and a Master in Arts in Library and Information Science from the University of South Florida. He was named Art Editor of the Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Fall 2014.