Verónica Vázquez: The Artist and Her Craft
December 1, 2020 – March 27, 2021
We are delighted to announce that the Fundación Pablo Atchugarry in Miami reopened this December with a brand new program of educational activations. Uruguayan artist Verónica Vázquez will lead a set of workshops as part of a biographical exhibition dedicated to her personal story of artistic growth. Vázquez frequented the Fundación Pablo Atchugarry in Uruguay, where she learned from its founder, sculptor Pablo Atchugarry. Vázquez’s time at the Fundación provided her the opportunity to study with important figures of Uruguayan art, and undoubtedly shaped her artistic practice.
Verónica Vázquez in her studio.
Verónica Vázquez (Treinta y Tres, Uruguay, 1970) is a self-taught artist, having studied the disciplines of Drawing, Painting, Sculpting, Engraving, Ceramics, Tapestry and History of Art. Her education indicates various interests that blossom and are evident in her current work, in an integrated and mature fashion. Choosing rugged, unyielding materials such as cardboard, metal plates and iron, Vázquez creates geometric forms that appear to be interwoven. She has a signature egalitarian treatment of the sculptures she creates and the space that surrounds them, privileging negative space so that it may be appreciated as an equal to her sculptures. Just as rhythm cannot exist without silence to accent the sound that follows, Vázquez’s forms rely on negative space.