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The Deering Estate is presenting “Yolanda Sánchez: All the Light We Cannot See” curated by Adriana Herrera. The exhibition runs until Nov. 12 in the Deering Estate Great Hall Gallery. An artist talk between Sánchez and Herrera will take place on Sunday, Oct. 22, at 3 p.m.
“This is the first solo exhibition devoted to Sánchez’ fiber art, a fusion and transformation of the textile legacies of the east and the west, a longstanding inquiry into the relationship between perception and color, also developed in her abstract painting,” Herrera said. “The exhibition consists of a site-specific, large-scale textile installation, a harmonic interactive experience of light and color, and two complementary works integrating ritual elements related to landscape as a way of seeing.
“Sánchez’ art links and alters a conduit for ancient cultural practices in order to construct her own language — a language that alludes to the beauty of nature, while at the same time placing us before the threshold of the invisible — at once, a passage into the spiritual universe which belongs to each one of us.”
The exhibition will include a printed catalog with essays written in English and Spanish by Sánchez and Herrera.
About the artist
Yolanda Sánchez was born in Havana, Cuba and immigrated to the United States in February 1960. She obtained a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Florida State University and has practiced and taught psychology at the graduate level for over 30 years. In her mid-30s, Dr. Sánchez returned to school, obtaining a BFA and subsequently, an MFA from Yale University in painting. She is a Fulbright scholar, completing her fellowship as a painter in Spain for one year.
Most recently, she was a Visiting Scholar and Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, Italy. Sánchez has taught at Florida International University, University of Miami, Nova University and Yale University. She has received numerous awards including most recently, a Miami Individual Artists Stipend Award through Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Currently, Sánchez is a full-time working artist, exhibiting nationally and internationally in numerous venues. In New York, she is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts. She also is a curator and writer, and formerly director of Fine Arts & Cultural Affairs at Miami International Airport, a position she held for 21 years.
About the curator
Adriana Herrera earned her PhD with an interdisciplinary dissertation in the fields of Literature and Art, proposing the concept of “Extreme Fiction” as derived from a particular way of its relation that ultimately filters reality. Her curatorial vision searches for the connection between the intimacy and the collective, the personal and the social realms, and the interest for the need and possibilities of imagination.
She served as an art critic for El Nuevo Herald, worked as an editor advisor with Arte al Día International Magazine, and written for several other international art publications. In 2011, with Willy Castellanos she created Aluna Art Foundation, as an alternative art space which the aims to promote the dialogue among local and international artistic practices and explore unreeled practices in Miami. Since its founding, Aluna Curatorial Collective has curated, organized and/or produced more than 30 exhibitions that were hosted at Aluna’s space or in different galleries and museums in Miami, Siberia and Monaco.
For more information visit the Deering Estate web site at https://deeringestate.org/event/art-exhibit/.
The Deering Estate is located at 16701 SW 72 Ave. in Palmetto Bay.
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