Healthcare Interpretation
On-site and remote Spanish–English interpretation for hospitals, clinics, providers, and patients.
Yara Translations & Consulting
Connecting people across language, culture, and art.
Professional Spanish–English interpretation and translation, bilingual consulting, and specialized advisory services in Cuban and Latin American art.
Ariel Lavandera
Certified Health Care Interpreter (CHI™)
Bilingual Consultant
Cuban & Latin American Art Advisor
One professional platform
Two complementary areas of work
Yara brings together Ariel Lavandera’s long experience in language access and community service with his work advising collectors, coordinating with auction houses, and helping place Cuban and Latin American art.
Language services
Clear, accurate communication in professional settings
Legal & Administrative Interpretation
Attorney-client meetings, interviews, depositions, immigration matters, nonprofit legal services, and other assignments that do not require Oregon court certification.
Translation
Educational, medical, legal, business, immigration, and personal documents, with certification of translation accuracy when appropriate.
Ariel is not currently certified as an Oregon Court Interpreter and does not represent himself as court-certified.
Art advisory
Cuban and Latin American art
Ariel works with private collectors and dealers on acquisitions, consignments, auction coordination, market research, and private placement. He also serves as an English–Spanish liaison for Eduardo Labrada and selected private collections.
The emphasis is on informed, discreet representation and clear communication among owners, collectors, galleries, auction houses, and institutions.
Advisory services
- Private sales and collector outreach
- Auction-house submissions and coordination
- Provenance and market research
- Acquisition and consignment guidance
- Authentication and restoration coordination
Selected works
Available and represented
Details, condition information, provenance, and pricing are available upon request. Some records are intentionally brief while documentation is being organized.
Salvador Corratgé
Abstracción, Composición 2, 1965
Acrylic on canvas · 70 5/8 × 31 3/8 in. · Certified
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Experience
Selected works handled or placed
A small selection illustrating the range of artists and works Ariel has helped research, present, place, or coordinate.
Eduardo Labrada
Painter, restorer, and art dealer
Eduardo Labrada is a Cuban painter, restorer, and dealer trained at the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in Havana. Although much of his career has centered on dealing, authentication, and restoration, he has continued to paint throughout his life.
His landscapes of rural Cuba have been exhibited and placed in private collections, including works shown through Broderick Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
Archive
Broderick Gallery exhibitions, Portland
Historical installation and opening photographs from exhibitions of Cuban art in Portland. These images document Ariel’s long-standing connection to the local art community and Eduardo Labrada’s earlier exhibitions in Oregon.
About Ariel
Experience built across communities and professional worlds
Ariel Lavandera is a Certified Health Care Interpreter, translator, bilingual consultant, and Cuban and Latin American art advisor based in Portland, Oregon.
He brings more than two decades of experience serving families, public institutions, healthcare providers, schools, legal professionals, businesses, and private clients. Through Yara Translations & Consulting, he provides services grounded in accuracy, cultural understanding, discretion, and trust.
“Our role as translators is to capture what the person is saying in the way they are saying it.”
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