Maria Magdelena Compos Pons is an afro-cuban-american artist. I saw her show, "Everything is Separated by Water" a while ago at the Bass Museum in Miami Beach. My favorites are her large-format Polaroid photographs, in which she rearranges parts and symbols of personal and collective memories. Recurring images are birds, painted skin, strings and ties that resemble ligaments or unraveled nests, and natural objects such as seeds and plants. Her work explores her imagined displacement from Africa, her actual exile from Cuba, and her experience as a black Cuban woman living in North America.
You can see more of her work on Artnet:
http://www.artnet.com/Artists/ArtistHomePage.aspx?artist_id=184874&page_tab=Artworks_for_sale
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