Zilia Sánchez Now Repped by Galerie Lelong

Galerie Lelong has announced the representation of Zilia Sánchez. Following her first US survey at Artists Space in New York, Zilia Sánchez has been called "one of the year's high points, a revelation and a refreshment" by Holland Cotter of the New York Times.

Since the 1950s, Sánchez's unique approach to formal abstraction in her paintings and drawings has rarely been seen outside Puerto Rico. Continually expanding the boundaries of Minimalism, Sánchez escapes any simple categorization of her own in bringing together the feminine and the erotic, the painterly and the sculptural. According to the New York Times "...there is nothing in New York galleries like this work, which has a boldness and strangeness entirely its own."

Zilia Sánchez was born in Cuba in 1926, and lived and worked in New York from 1964-1972. In addition to painting, Sánchez designed the influential literary journal Zona de Carga y Descarga(Zone of Charging and Discharging) until 1975. Over the last three decades she has taught at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico.

The gallery is located on West 26th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues in Chelsea, 528 West 26th Street, New York, NY. Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm. Call 212 315 0470, email art@galerielelong.com or visit www.galerielelong.com for more information.

Artwork: Lunar V, c. 1973, acrylic on stretched canvas, Installation View at Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez.

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