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Imágenes Líricas/New Spanish Visions was an exhibition of 40 works by eight contemporary Spanish artists. Organized by the University Art Museum of California State University, Long Beach, the exhibition was co-sponsored and circulated by Independent Curators Incorporated (ICI), New York.

The exhibition illuminated a new, spirited generation of Spanish artists that emerged in the post-Franco era. The works in the exhibition were evidence of a distinctive current in recent Spanish art — the drive to infuse abstraction with figural implication and so permeate representation with mystical suggestions. The works follow a stylistic line from content-laden abstraction to painterly realism. Yet, each of the artists holds a devotion to metaphysical content.

Imágenes Líricas/New Spanish Visions included the work of Patricio Cabrera, Gerardo Delgado, María Gómez, Perejaume, Juan Carlos Savater, Soledad Sevilla, José María Sicilia and Juan Usulé, several of whom were exhibiting in the United States for the first time.

In addition to the Albright-Knox, this exhibition traveled to the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Blaffer Gallery, and the University of Washington Henry Art Gallery.

This exhibition was organized by the University Art Museum of California State University, Long Beach, and guest curator Lucinda Barnes.