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These prints meld images culled from familial and institutional archives with artworks formative to his creative development. By layering up to twenty different images “gesturally,” as he says, Pardo transmutes personal and cultural signifiers into dazzlingly hued, stratified abstractions of memories.

Pardo, who was processed to the United States as a Cuban refugee, mines his and others’ family portraits, which the Cuban regime confiscated and intentionally sent to erroneous addresses years later. These photographs are then abstracted and interwoven with imagery of artworks that have served …