A Sacred Pilgrimage: Gaudi and Galban

A Sacred Pilgrimage: Gaudi and Galban is a statewide traveling exhibition now on view at Peace Memorial Church in Clearwater, Florida, where it is free and open to the public through July 12, 2026. Every painting in the show is inspired by the work of Antoni Gaudi, the Catalan architect best known for the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, and the project marks the 100th anniversary of Gaudi's death. The paintings are by Galban, a St. Petersburg, Florida artist and physician who began the series after a near-fatal heart attack while visiting the Sagrada Familia. He has described the work as the most personal of his career, and the body of paintings has grown as the exhibition travels, with new pieces added at each stop. Curators Antonio Permuy and Tarin Mohajeri have guided the show across Florida over the past year, and they say it has become a pilgrimage in its own right, drawing visitors who follow it from venue to venue. Now back in the Tampa Bay area where it began, the exhibition pairs Gaudi's architectural language with a contemporary painter's response, presented in a church setting that frames the work for visitors of many backgrounds.