Though the curator Andrea Alvarez gathered 70 works by 58 contemporary artists for the Buffalo AKG Art Museum’s upcoming exhibition, she sees it not as a survey, but as an invitation to learn more about the Latin American diaspora. “Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way,” which borrows its title from a poem by the former U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, will feature cross-generational paintings, some of which will debut when the show opens next month. Their themes vary widely, though many include recognizable iconography that’s often subverted or tied to an individual sense of place. The Los Angeles-based Mexican artist Francisco Palomares’s “Piñata and chickens in a landscape” (2024) disrupts a classical pastoral with a birthday party staple, while “A Que sabe ser Colonia? (What does it taste like to be a Colony?)” (2023), by the Bushwick, Brooklyn-based Nuyorican artist Danielle de Jesus, depicts a pair of hands ornamented with religious and patriotic rings and bracelets. Alvarez chose to focus on painting in order to connect with the museum’s existing permanent collection of European canvases. “Man on Trampoline” (2023), by the Mexican American painter Larry Madrigal, for example, combines the influences of far-flung masters like El Greco and Diego Rivera, says Alvarez. “Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way” is on view at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum Mar. 6 through Sep. 6, buffaloakg.org.