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Artist Firelei Báez

Firelei Báez was born, in 1981, in the Dominican Republic to Dominican and Haitian parents, and immigrated to the United States at...

Backstory: A Video Discussion with Gerald Posner – Investigative Journalist & Author

Posted by Elman + Perez-Trujillo

GERALD POSNER (B. 1954), a resident of Miami Beach, is an investigative journalist and the best-selling author of 13 books, including “Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK” (1993), “Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.” (1998), “Miami Babylon,” the history of the rise, the fall, and the resurrection of Miami and Miami Beach (2009), “Why America Slept,” which discusses the conspiracy of the al-Qaeda terrorists (and possibly Saudi royals) who were responsible for the September 11th attacks, “God’s Bankers” (2015), a 200-year history of Vatican finances and the Vatican Bank, and most recently, “Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America” (2020).

A Video Chat with Firelei Báez — Artist

Posted by Elman + Perez-Trujillo

Firelei Báez was born, in 1981, in the Dominican Republic to Dominican and Haitian parents, and immigrated to the United States at...

Firelei Báez Adds Beauty and Meaning to the Subway

By Daniel Colmenares

Firelei Báez’ latest project won’t be gracing the walls of a gallery, museum, or art fair. Instead one can find her thought-provoking new work in the Washington Heights’ 163rd street subway. The tiled walls of the subway platform are now vibrant with Báez’ latest tribute to the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean. Commissioned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts & Design, Báez made it a priority to focus on the Dominican population of the neighborhood and cater to its history and culture. The art is titled “Ciguapa Antellana, me llamo sueño de la madrugada (who more sci-fi than us)” (2018) and depicts many plants and trinkets familiar to the people of the Dominican Republic including azabaches and plantain trees. Báez explains, “Because it is a public work, I wanted a certain level of transparency… I wanted Dominicans to just revel in it.”