Nela Arias-Misson had a diverse artistic training, including the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes at San Alejandro in Cuba, the Arts Students League and the Parsons School of Design in New York. But her influential formative period was as a student of Hans Hofmann, one of the principal exponents of Abstract Expressionism who became her artistic mentor.

From the ‘1940s to the ‘1950s, Nela became entrenched with the Provincetown, Massachusetts prolific art movement of the time. This city was summer center of Abstract Expressionism represented by such painters as Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Helen Frankenthaler, in addition to Hofmann. She formed relationships and connected with these internationally known American cutting-edge figures.

Despite living in North America for much of her life, it is only recently that the rediscovery of Nela Arias-Misson’s prolific artwork starts to take place.
Arias-MIsson freed herself from any known rules regarding painting and entered a fantasy world without any skepticism or doubt. She found her images, all of them essential, and created her destiny.
Nela Arias Misson passed away in Miami Fl a few weeks short of her 100th birthday.