Oct 2
Anke Birkenmaier, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, will discuss the Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez’s fascination with the patterns, colors, and forms of Caribbean architecture. Based on memory and his Sanchez’s travels, these images suggest aspects of nostalgia, identity, and a sense of place.
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Apr 11
Lederer Lockhart Gallery 1 College Circle Geneseo NY
An artist with an independent voice and international acclaim, Sanchez has had over sixty solo exhibitions and has been included in numerous group shows in museums and galleries in the United States, Latin America and Europe. His art is well represented in private and public collections including over thirty museums like the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Jan 23
Old Print Shop 150 Lexington Avenue at 30th Street
Oct 11
On October 2, 2012 the Emilio Sanchez Foundation closed after an eleven-year span of accomplishing its mission of promoting and preserving the legacy of the important Cuban-American Modernist artist of the 20th century, Emilio Sanchez. We are grateful to all the people who have supported, advised and helped us through the years to make this a reality. We have entrusted Sanchez’s artwork to over 70 museums and institutions, and his documents into the Archives of American Art. We hope that his work will be cherished, studied, exhibited and further brought to light.
Dr. Ann Koll has stepped down as the Executive Director and Curator of the Foundation and expresses her gratitude to the community of Sanchez supporters for the honor of working to perpetuate Sanchez’s contribution to the arts. Without her the Foundation could not have existed and achieved its goals.
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Oct 10
The University Museum, under the administration of Director Eric Barnett, opened an exhibit of some of the artwork of Cuban American artist Emilio Sanchez on September 24th at the main office of TheBANK of Edwardsville, located in downtown Edwardsville. The exhibit was opened in celebration of the newly established collaborative agreement between the University of Havana and SIUE.
Thanks to the Emilio Sanchez Foundation, the University Museum has acquired 490 works of the artist. All the works in the exhibit are lithographs with various themes and media that embrace contemporary abstract qualities.
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Oct 6
Palitz Gallery, Syracuse University
Schingoethe Art Gallery, Aurora, IL
Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, PR
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Jun 20
University of Virginia Art Museum presents Emilio Sanchez Cityscapes. Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez works will show case his urban scenes. Though he spent much of his life in the United States, studying architecture at the University of Virginia later moving to New York City to continue his studies with the Art Students League.
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Apr 19
In a salute to the San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial: Latin America and the Caribbean, Museo de Arte de Ponce inaugurated two important exhibitions: Art in Response: Luis Camnitzer and Emilio Sanchez: Light, Line, and Shadow. These striking exhibits have been made possible through the support of the National Endowment for the Arts’ “Art Works” program, the Fondo Nacional para el Financiamiento del Quehacer Cultural, the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, and the Oficina de Apoyo a las Artes y al Quehacer Cultural.
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Jan 31
The Emilio Sanchez exhibit URBAN ARCHIVES at the Bronx Museum of the Arts was extended until June 17, 2012
This exhibition presents a group of works by Emilio Sanchez from The Bronx Museum of the Arts Permanent Collection, together with related archival material and a special interpretive project by Bronx-based artist Laura Napier. All the works depict commercial buildings in the Hunts Point area of the South Bronx. With a colorful palette and rigorous architectural design, these works depict the bodegas and auto shops of the Bronx in an almost idyllic style that makes a stark contrast with preconceived views of the borough.
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Dec 30
This exhibition presents 17 works of art created by Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999), a Cuban-born American artist who won acclaim for his strikingly abstract paintings of architecture and landscape. Born in Camagüey, Cuba in 1921, Sanchez studied at the Art Students League in New York after moving to that city in 1944. Although he lived in New York for the rest of his life, his work continued to be inspired by the strong light and vibrant colors characteristic of his homeland.His well-known paintings of architectural themes focus on simplified forms rendered even more abstract by the play of light and shadow. Traveling to countries around the Mediterranean in the 1970s and 80s, he found inspiration in the stark white vernacular buildings of Morocco. He was also fascinated by the forms of New York skyscrapers seen against colorful dawn or sunset skies. Emilio Sanchez was the recipient of prestigious awards, including first prize at the 1974 Biennial in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His work is represented in many major museums, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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