Zilia Sánchez Domínguez Explained

Zilia Sánchez Dominguez
Nationality:Cuban
Known For:abstract painter

Zilia Sánchez Dominguez (born 1926)[1] is a Puerto Rico-based Cuban artist from Havana. She started her career as a set designer and an abstract painter for theatre groups in Cuba before the Cuban revolution of 1953-59.[2] Sanchez blurs the lines between sculpture and painting by creating canvases layered with three dimensional protrusions and shapes. Her works are minimal in color, and have erotic overtones.[3]

History

Sánchez was born in Havana, Cuba.[4] Her mother was Cuban and her father Spanish.[5] In 1943 Sánchez studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" in Havana and later had her first solo exhibition in 1953.[6] Following Fidel Castro's rise to power, Sanchez moved to New York where she studied printmaking at Pratt Institute.

She works in a pre-war wooden studio in the Santurce neighborhood of San Juan, where much of her artwork was destroyed by water damage in 2018 during Hurricane Maria.[7] Her work was included in the influential exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-85 at the Brooklyn Museum in 2018.[8]

She is a feminist pioneer in contemporary art, and in 2020 her work was featured in the scholarly researched and historic group show My Body My Rules, at the Pérez Art Museum Miami - Sánchez's work Untitled, from the series Topología Erótica (Erotic Topology) from 1970 is included in the museum's Caribbean Cultural Institute collection.[9] [10]

Her Amazonas series features female warriors highlighting the female form[11] and her work has been described as having "sensual contours".[12] Sánchez's art style changed within the beginning years of her creating art. Early into her career she was focused on creating pieces that focused on the informal practices of abstract expressionism and visual language. By the mid-1960's she had started working on her sensual signature stretched canvas works.[13]

Her artwork has been described as "overlooked" and "rarely seen outside of Puerto Rico."[14]

In 2019, the Phillips Collection exhibited her first museum retrospective, covering her 70-year career,[15] and her work was included in the group show The Gift of Art, at Pérez Art Museum Miami. The exhibition highlighted important artworks within PAMM's permanent collection on Latinx and Latin American artists. Among the artists featured in the exhibition were José Bedia (Cuba), Teresa Margolles (Mexico), Roberto Matta (Chile), Oscar Murillo (Colombia), Amelia Peláez (Cuba), Wifredo Lam (Cuba), Tunga (Brazil), and Carmen Herrera (Cuba).[16]

Sánchez's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.[17] In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.[18]

Exhibitions

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Zilia Sánchez . AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes . 22 April 2023.
  2. News: Zilia Sánchez. Cotter. Holland. 2013-06-13. The New York Times. 2019-02-07. en-US. 0362-4331.
  3. Web site: Three Cuban Artists Take On the Moon at Galerie Lelong. Vogue. 30 April 2016 . en. 2019-02-07.
  4. News: An Artist Who Transforms Paintings Into Cosmic Sculptures. Furman. Anna. 2019-11-29. The New York Times. 2019-12-01. en-US. 0362-4331.
  5. Book: Sretenovic, Vesela. Zilia Sánchez : Soy Isla. Yale University Press. 2019. 9780300233902. New Haven, CT. 2.
  6. News: Steinhauer. Jillian. Zilia Sánchez's Island of Erotic Forms. 2020-02-06. The New York Times. 2020-03-10. en-US. 0362-4331.
  7. News: In Puerto Rico, Artists Rebuild and Reach Out. Biesenbach. Klaus. 2018-01-25. The New York Times. 2019-02-07. Gregory. Christopher. en-US. 0362-4331. Mclaughlin. Ariana.
  8. Web site: Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-85 at Brooklyn Museum BLOUIN ARTINFO. www.blouinartinfo.com. 2019-02-07.
  9. Web site: Untitled, from the series Topología erotica – Caribbean Cultural Institute . 2023-08-22 . en-US.
  10. Web site: MY BODY, MY RULES • Pérez Art Museum Miami . 2023-02-08 . Pérez Art Museum Miami . en-US.
  11. Web site: Canvas is just a starting place for Puerto Rican contemporary artists at Newcomb show. D'Addario. John. The New Orleans Advocate. en. 2017-05-30.
  12. Web site: Puerto Rican Painters Who Fold, Cut, and Tear the Canvas. 2017-06-26. Hyperallergic. en-US. 2019-02-07.
  13. Web site: Guerrero . Marcela . Zilia Sánchez . Aware.
  14. News: Art Basel Miami Beach: A Focus on Female Artists. Pogrebin. Robin. 2015-11-26. The New York Times. 2019-02-07. Sokol. Brett. en-US. 0362-4331.
  15. News: Zilia Sánchez: 92-year-old artist gets her first museum retrospective. Sayej. Nadja. 2019-02-12. The Guardian. 2019-03-16. en-GB. 0261-3077.
  16. Web site: Pérez Art Museum Miami Announces Latin American and Latinx Art Fund • Pérez Art Museum Miami . 2023-04-05 . Pérez Art Museum Miami . en-US.
  17. Book: Women in abstraction . 2021 . Thames & Hudson Ltd. ; Thames & Hudson Inc . London : New York, New York . 978-0500094372 . 170.
  18. Web site: Action, Gesture, Paint . Whitechapel Gallery . 22 April 2023 . en.
  19. Web site: Zilia Sánchez . Hammer Museum . 22 April 2023 . en.
  20. Web site: Guerrero . Marcela . Zilia Sánchez . Hammer.
  21. Alvarez Lezama. Manuel. Aug–Oct 2000. Zilia Sanchez. Art Nexus. Issue 37. 132–33. Art & Architecture Complete.
  22. Barral. Alberto. 2013. Zilia Sánchez. Art Nexus. 12. 90 . 121–22. Art & Architecture Complete.
  23. Web site: ZILIA SÁNCHEZ . Galerie Lelong & Co . April 8, 2022.
  24. Book: Vesela, Sretenović. Zilia Sánchez : soy isla. Acevedo-Yates, Carla,, Cluck, Alyson, Phillips Collection, Museo de Arte de Ponce (Puerto Rico), Museo del Barrio (New York, N.Y.). 978-0300233902. New Haven. 1046461607. 2019-02-19.

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