The work of acclaimed Cuban American artist Julio Larraz will be featured in an exhibition opening Sunday at the Butler Institute of American Art.

The exhibition coincides with National Hispanic Heritage Month.

Larraz, who lives in Miami, started as a political cartoonist whose work appeared in such publications as the Washington Post and New York Times. The sharp observation and keen sense of narrative displayed in that work infuses his paintings.

His oil paintings inhabit a realm where reality and imagination converge. With a mastery of light, precision of detail and an ever-present undercurrent of wit, Larraz constructs visual narratives that are at once alluring and enigmatic.

His compositions often weave together satirical social commentary, poetic symbolism and art-historical all

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