Yolanda Sﾃ］chez Sometimes There Are No Rules
YOLANDA SÁNCHEZ
SOMETIMES THERE ARE NO RULES March 13th - April 12th, 2014
529 W. 20th St. Ste. 6W New York, NY 10011
Front Cover: A flower moon, 2013 Oil on canvas 55 x 59 inches Inside Cover: Some principle of being, 2013 Oil on canvas 59 x 55 inches
Three Things to Remember As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules. Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules. Sometimes there are no rules. - Mary Oliver Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to present Yolanda Sánchez’s fourth solo exhibition Sometimes There Are No Rules. During China’s Tang Dynasty (690-705AD), the Three Perfections first gathered. Perhaps one of the earliest examples of a collective collaborating to create one unique and harmonious work, the Three Perfections is traditionally comprised of a poet, a painter, and a calligrapher. Putting this discipline to the test in her most recent series of paintings, Yolanda Sánchez includes varying aspects of all three “perfections”. Each painting, replete with her typical vocabulary of wildly expressionistic brushwork coupled with expansive passages of white canvas, feels like a fresh sensory experience. By mixing references to the natural world with contrasting compositional structures, Sánchez creates imagery that is experiential while remaining separate from narrative. Using color as a vehicle for experience, heightened by gesture, composition, and texture, Sánchez’s paintings provide a refuge from the day to day. Instead, they encourage their viewers to celebrate the visual and physical world when it may otherwise, be overlooked. Yolanda Sánchez was born in Havana, Cuba and immigrated to the United States in 1960. She obtained a PhD in Clinical Psychology in 1979. Yolanda is a Fulbright scholar. Later she acquired her BFA and subsequently, an MFA from Yale University, where she studied with British painter John Walker. She has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and her work is included in many public and private collections including the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Jacksonville, Florida and the Neiman Marcus Corporate Headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Currently, Sánchez lives and works in Miami Beach, Florida.
Installation view, left: So much depends, 2013 Oil on canvas 38 x 36 inches right: Peace Piece, 2013 Oil on canvas 70 x 96 inches
A flower moon, 2013 Oil on canvas 55 x 59 inches
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Hints of gladness 2014 Oil on canvas 38 x 72 inches
So much depends, 2013 Oil on canvas 38 x 36 inches
Previous page Installation view: Left: A flower moon, 2013 Oil on canvas, 55 x 59 in Right: a Sunday kind of love, 2013 Oil on canvas, 41 x 29 in This page, right: Some principle of being, 2013 Oil on canvas, 59 x 55 in
Peace Piece, 2014 Oil on canvas 70 x 96 inches
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The place of not thinking, 2014 Oil on canvas 55 x 50 inches
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Step lightly (just like a ballerina), 2014 Oil on canvas 55 x 59 inches
YOLANDA SANCHEZ EDUCATION 1994 MFA, Painting, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT 1991 BFA, Visual Arts, Florida International University, Miami, FL Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT 1979 Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 1976 MS, Clinical Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 1973 BA, Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 Sometimes ere Are No Rules, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY 2013 Too Much of a Good ing is Wonderful, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Bridgehampton, NY 2012 Meditations on the Between, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY Azul: Works on Paper, e Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2011 Wild Companions, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, New York Holding the Space, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, Indiana New Paintings, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, New York 2009 New Work, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, FL Odegard’s Ongoing Artist Series, Odegard Showroom, Miami, FL 2006 Recent Work, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, FL In summer, the song sings itself, Art @ Work, Arturo Mosquera Collection, Miami, FL 2005 Working the Fields, Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL 1997 Metro-Dade Cultural Resource Center, Miami, FL Mujeres, St. omas University, Atrium Gallery, Miami, FL SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 Korea Bojagi Forum, Jeju Island, South Korea 2013 SPRING REVIVAL: a group exhibition, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY Some Wonderful Abstractions, Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL Abstract inking, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY Abstract, adj.: Expressing a quality apart from an object, Ringling College of Art and Design, Selby Gallery, Sarasota, FL Paint City, Florida International University, Miami Beach Urban Studios, Miami Beach, FL Paint!, Bridge Red Studios, Miami, FL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (continued) 2012 A Través del Entramado: Ver Sin Ser Visto, Museo Siyâsa, Murcia, Spain Paint!, Bridge Red Studios/Project Space, Miami, FL Little Languages/Coded Pictures, Leslie Heller Workspace, New York, NY; Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, NY, NY Florida Focus Exhibition: A Celebration of Contemporary Florida Art, e Studio@620, St. Petersburg, FL 2011 Uncommon reads, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY e Search for Self-Identity in Cuban Contemporary Art, Café XIII, e Journeys of CubanWriters and Artists, Gallery of the Errol Barrow Center for the Imagination, 2011 University of West Indies, Barbados Suwong Hwaseong International eatre and Arts Festival, Seoul, Korea Bojagi International Exhibition, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA Works on Paper, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, FL 2010 Ways of World-Making: Notes on the Passion for Collecting, Miami-Dade College, Wolfson Campus, e Freedom Tower, Miami, FL Invitational, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY Café X: e Journey of Cuban Artists, Errol Barrow Center for Creative Imagination,University of the West Indies, Barbados 2009 Just Breathe, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY NEW/NOW: New Painting and Drawing, e Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA Café VIII: e Journey of Cuban Artists, Temple University, Rome Campus, Rome, Italy 2007 Café VII: e Journeys of Cuban Artists, Arizona State University, Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance Gallery, Glendale, AZ Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA Building Picturing, e Painting Center, New York, NY Vision de un Lenguaje Abstracto, A. Cueto Gallery, San Juan, PR 2005 Introductions 05, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA Crossing the Line, e Painting Center, New York, NY A Group Show, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA e Right Work at the Right Time, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL 2004 Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO; La Jolla, CA Locust Projects, Miami, FL
SELECTED AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 2012 Knight Foundation, Knight Arts Challenge Award Excellence in Community Outreach, North America Airports Council International 2011 Excellence in Community Outreach, North America Airports Council International 2010 Artist Access Grant, Tigertail Productions, Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council Community Affairs Award, Florida Airports Council 2007 Artist Enhancement Grant, State of Florida, Division of Cultural Affairs Catto Scholarship Fund Award, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO 2005 Miami-Dade County Manager’s “Achievement of Excellence” Award, Miami, FL 2003 North America Airports Council International, Excellence in Marketing and Communications Award, Special Events, Healing the World 2000 Residency, e Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA 1998 Artist Access Grant, Tigertail Productions, Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council Residency, e Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA 1994 J. William Fulbright Scholarship for Graduate Study Abroad Yale University School of Art, Winsor Newton Oil Bar Limited Prize, Recognition of Outstanding Work 1991 Faculty Commendation for Excellence in Art, Florida International University Betty Laird Purchase Award, e Art Museum of Florida International University, Miami, FL Purchase Award, e Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS e Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL Graham University Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL Neiman Marcus Corporate Headquarters, Dallas, TX