ART-PRESENTATION: Yolanda Sánchez-Recent works

Yolanda Sánchez’s paintings are a search for re-enchantment, for a way to reach below the surface of things, to find that point of connection with life.  The artist wants to engage the viewer in a sensory experience, one that is un-camera-like, un-computer-like.  Her goal is to nudge the viewer into a deeper experience of the present, where the “circumference of self” is dissolved, to provide a moment of contemplation without literally telling a story.

By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Kathryn Markel Fine Arts Archive

In her new solo exhibition “Recent Works”, Yolanda Sanchez combines the ancient Chinese Tradition of the Three Perfections. Three perfections is the gathering of poets, calligraphers and painter to create an artwork in ancient China. The resulting product would be a painting that would include the work of a calligrapher to write a poem.  Yolanda Sanchez incorporates all three disciplines into her work. Her wildly expressionistic brushwork infused with the elegant control of calligraphy is grounded by the quiet of expansive passages of white canvas. Using color as a vehicle for experience heightened by gesture, composition, and texture, Sanchez’s paintings provide a poetic refuge from the day to day. Her work references nature, but remains independent from narrative. Instead, Sanchez translates and projects emotional and sensational experiences. Subject and object are dissolved and replaced by a presence, the essence of a life force created by rhythm, harmony, and space. While the work is influenced by Eastern philosophy and Asian art forms, Sanchez’s multicultural upbringing is also always present.

 Info: Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, 2418 Montauk Hwy, Bridgehampton, New York, Duration: 4-21/8/16, Days & Hours: Thu-Mon 11:00-18:00, www.markelfinearts.com