.Artist Sylvia Castellanos, who emigrated to the United States from her native Cuba as a child, has executed hundreds of portraits and figurative works of everyone from Washington dignitaries to Central American campesinos.. While her portraiture covers a broad range of subject matter and moods, its emphasis is consistently on capturing the individual’s spirit in a nuanced, sensitive way. After earning a graduate degree from Princeton University, she moved to Washington, D.C. in the early seventies. For the remainder of the decade she combined holding a prestigious position in the...more
