Sánchez, Zilia, 1926-2024

found: Zilia Sánchez, 2014:page 61 (born in Havana, Cuba, in 1926; continues to work in San Juan, Puerto Rico)

found: Wikipedia. Viewed September 6, 2022:(Zilia Sánchez Dominguez is a Puerto Rico-based Cuban artist born in Havana in 1926. She started her career as a set designer and an abstract painter for radical theatre groups in Cuba before the Cuban revolution of 1953-59. 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) - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zilia_S%C3%A1nchez_Dom%C3%ADnguez&oldid=1087550189

found: Artist Directory. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. Viewed July 14, 2022:(Zilia Sánchez ; b. in Havana, Cuba, 1926. Painter, sculptor, printmaker, assemblage artist, and teacher. Sánchez studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro in Havana. She left Cuba in 1960 and lived in Spain, Italy, Canada and New York. She learned art-restoration techniques at the Herbert E. Feist Gallery in New York and the Instituto Central de Conservación y Restauración in Madrid, and she studied printmaking at the Pratt Institute in New York. She was awarded a Cintas Foundation grant, and took part in international events such as the Sao Paulo Biennial. During the seventies, Sánchez created several murals on the façades of residential buildings in Puerto Rico. Since 1991, she has taught at the Puerto Rico School of Plastic Arts and the Art Students League of San Juan. In her abstract work, usually in series and in a minimalist style, she uses stretched canvases with jutting, somewhat erotically charged reliefs, which she accentuates with circular applications of pigment in neutral tones of gray, black, and ochre) - https://www.mapr.org/en/museum/proa/artist/sanchez-zilia

found: Hyperallergic WWW site, viewed Dec. 23, 2024:obituary dated Dec. 19, 2024 (Zilia Sánchez; died on Dec. 18, aged 98) - https://hyperallergic.com/976927/zilia-sanchez-artist-of-sensual-abstractions-dies-at-98/