Latino Artist Rafael Rivera Garcia created this week's new crucifix from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection. Born in New York City, Garcia made his home in Puerto Rico. He was especially known for his public murals on historic and mythological themes in a neo-figurative style, an art movement similar to Cubism, originating in Mexico and Spain in the 1960s, where recognizable images are expressively reshaped through the manipulation of form and color. In Garcia’s carved and assembled wood crucifix in my collection, the figure of the suffering Christ on the Cross is a striking vertical construct of hollowed-out muscles, ligaments and tendons, brightly colored in yellow, orange, white, and black. This new Lenten-themed work can be found in the Crosses and Crucifixes page in the Schools of Sacred Art section. (John Kohan)