"Fiebre Espirtua," ('Spiritual Fever"), a colorful and emotional show of sculpture, installations and paintings by Easton artist Angel Suarez-Rosada, is on display through April 13, Re: Find, 437 Northampton St., Easton.

Suarez-Rosada, born and raised in Puerto Rico, brings elements of his childhood, religion and life in Easton into the art he creates.

Suarez-Rosada has been creating art since age 10. After graduating from high school in Puerto Rico, he came to the United States to study art at the School of Visual Arts, New York City. After receiving a Master's degree there in 1985, Suarez-Rosada chose to stay in New York, living on the Lower West Side and engaging in the active art scene.

"I moved from neighborhood to neighborhood," he says. "I went from minimalism to abstraction as I moved and interacted with my new Puerto Rican community in Brooklyn.

"I started exploring making art through objects like children's games, leaves and plants. I abandoned painting for a long while, choosing to focus primarily on installations and performance."

During this time, Suarez-Rosada honed his focus on creating art with the themes of the island religion he was raised in, Espiritismo (Spiritism) and Santeria, which he was introduced to in Brooklyn. Both are Caribbean-based religions.

"All of my work has something to do with Santeria and Spiritism," explains Suarez-Rosada.

In his latest work, he specifically reaches to his roots in the mountains of Puerto Rico. Primitive bowls made from gourds, just like the ones he used as a child living humbly in a shanty town, feature prominently in one of the installations.

"Bowls like these aren't used anymore," says Suarez-Rosada. "Everything old is getting lost as time moves on."

Suarez-Rosada was also inspired by his love for his partner of 30 years, William Marley, who recently passed away. Marley helped to inspire the Magnolia flowers which are suspended in glass jars of wax in one installation. "My lover was from the south," he explains. "The southern flowers are an obvious metaphor to me for 'gay.'"

Vibrant paintings full of bright colors and primitive island images are also featured prominently in the show at Re-Find. "I'm having a ball painting with all the bright colors," he says with a smile. "All my colors from my past are still here."