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![Zilia Sánchez El silencio de la brisa, 2018 Acrylic on stretched canvas 18 x 36 x 5 inches (45.7 x 91.4 x 12.7 cm) (GL12739) Sánchez achieves crescent-like curvatures and anatomical protrusions by stretching canvas over hand-molded wooden armatures, resulting in artworks that imbue painting with sculptural and architectural sensitivity. El silencio de la brisa [The Silence of Breeze] employs a deep, more saturated, blue as evolved from previously muted palettes, in a composition that is evocative of both natural and corporeal landscapes. Zilia Sánchez’s work is characterized by her distinctive approach to formal abstraction through the use of undulating silhouettes, muted color palettes, and a unique, sensual vocabulary. She is primarily recognized for her shaped canvases, first created in Havana in the 1950s and further developed while living in Havana, New York City, and Madrid. Sánchez’s signature style consists of stretching canvas over hand-molded wooden armatures and painting them with acrylic. Over her 65-year career, Sánchez has explored the juxtapositions between the feminine and the masculine, the painterly and the sculptural, the personal and the universal, the exterior body and the interior self. The reduced color palettes in her compositions as well as the serial processes she employs, connect her to Minimalism, though the sensuality and embrace of the curve in her work bear witness to the distinct language Sánchez has developed. The artist’s first full retrospective, Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla, was recently organized by the Phillips Collection, Washington DC and traveled to El Museo del Barrio, New York and Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico. Her work was included in the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, VIVA ARTE VIVA, curated by Christine Macel. Sánchez’s work is included in international museum and public collections including the Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel, Mexico City, Mexico; El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine; Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires MALBA, Argentina; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba; Perez Art Museum Miami, Florida; Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York; Tate, London, England; and The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. The artist lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she permanently settled in the early 1970s. She was born in 1926 in Havana, Cuba.](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Zilia Sánchez
El silencio de la brisa, 2018
Acrylic on stretched canvas
18 x 36 x 5 inches (45.7 x 91.4 x 12.7 cm)
(GL12739)
Sánchez achieves crescent-like curvatures and anatomical protrusions by stretching canvas over hand-molded wooden armatures, resulting in artworks that imbue painting with sculptural and architectural sensitivity. El silencio de la brisa [The Silence of Breeze] employs a deep, more saturated, blue as evolved from previously muted palettes, in a composition that is evocative of both natural and corporeal landscapes.
Zilia Sánchez’s work is characterized by her distinctive approach to formal abstraction through the use of undulating silhouettes, muted color palettes, and a unique, sensual vocabulary. She is primarily recognized for her shaped canvases, first created in Havana in the 1950s and further developed while living in Havana, New York City, and Madrid. Sánchez’s signature style consists of stretching canvas over hand-molded wooden armatures and painting them with acrylic. Over her 65-year career, Sánchez has explored the juxtapositions between the feminine and the masculine, the painterly and the sculptural, the personal and the universal, the exterior body and the interior self. The reduced color palettes in her compositions as well as the serial processes she employs, connect her to Minimalism, though the sensuality and embrace of the curve in her work bear witness to the distinct language Sánchez has developed.
The artist’s first full retrospective, Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla, was recently organized by the Phillips Collection, Washington DC and traveled to El Museo del Barrio, New York and Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico. Her work was included in the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, VIVA ARTE VIVA, curated by Christine Macel. Sánchez’s work is included in international museum and public collections including the Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel, Mexico City, Mexico; El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine; Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires MALBA, Argentina; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba; Perez Art Museum Miami, Florida; Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York; Tate, London, England; and The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.
The artist lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she permanently settled in the early 1970s. She was born in 1926 in Havana, Cuba.
![Zilia Sánchez El silencio de la brisa, 2018 Acrylic on stretched canvas 18 x 36 x 5 inches (45.7 x 91.4 x 12.7 cm) (GL12739) Sánchez achieves crescent-like curvatures and anatomical protrusions by stretching canvas over hand-molded wooden armatures, resulting in artworks that imbue painting with sculptural and architectural sensitivity. El silencio de la brisa [The Silence of Breeze] employs a deep, more saturated, blue as evolved from previously muted palettes, in a composition that is evocative of both natural and corporeal landscapes. Zilia Sánchez’s work is characterized by her distinctive approach to formal abstraction through the use of undulating silhouettes, muted color palettes, and a unique, sensual vocabulary. She is primarily recognized for her shaped canvases, first created in Havana in the 1950s and further developed while living in Havana, New York City, and Madrid. Sánchez’s signature style consists of stretching canvas over hand-molded wooden armatures and painting them with acrylic. Over her 65-year career, Sánchez has explored the juxtapositions between the feminine and the masculine, the painterly and the sculptural, the personal and the universal, the exterior body and the interior self. The reduced color palettes in her compositions as well as the serial processes she employs, connect her to Minimalism, though the sensuality and embrace of the curve in her work bear witness to the distinct language Sánchez has developed. The artist’s first full retrospective, Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla, was recently organized by the Phillips Collection, Washington DC and traveled to El Museo del Barrio, New York and Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico. Her work was included in the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, VIVA ARTE VIVA, curated by Christine Macel. Sánchez’s work is included in international museum and public collections including the Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel, Mexico City, Mexico; El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine; Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires MALBA, Argentina; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba; Perez Art Museum Miami, Florida; Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York; Tate, London, England; and The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. The artist lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she permanently settled in the early 1970s. She was born in 1926 in Havana, Cuba.](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_2000,h_2000,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/ws-galerielelong/usr/exhibitions/images/feature_panels/232/flstanda3-8.jpeg)