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Written by Abraham Galvan on March 11, 2026
City officials are budgeting $1 million to go toward a 3-D bronze mural installation at the Coral Gables Mobility Hub.
Miami’s Hernan Bas, a contemporary artist known for his landscape and figurative works, will be commissioned by the city to draw a painting that reflects Coral Gables and then turn it into a bronze mural and place it at the mobility hub.
Mr. Bas, born to Cuban immigrant parents and raised in South Florida, draws influence from American subculture, the 19th-century Symbolist movement, and Les Nabis.
“What I’m looking for is for him to make a painting that will then be transferred onto a wall inside the mobility hub,” Mayor Vince Lago envisioned and told the city commission on Tuesday, “and it’ll be like one of those bronze cast works that’s kind of like a 3-D work coming out of the wall.”
Mr. Bas is an artist of interest that the arts advisory panel has discussed previously for this opportunity, added Catherine Cathers, the city’s arts and culture coordinator.
“We know that the mobility hub is going to be a very significant opportunity for artwork, and we want to do something really special there,” she said. “This being brought forward by the mayor is to really provide for that proposal process that we would take through the arts advisory panel and cultural board and then back to the commission for approval.”