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Cynzia Sanchez-Urrea (1960)
Architect, designer, painter and portrait artist, worked on both B.A. and Masters degrees in Architecture at The Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, where she still lives with her husband and children.
Her studies include many years of drawing and painting with the late renowned artist Don Andres Bueso in her native San Juan, Puerto Rico. Cynzia has also studied and produced works in the fields of sculpture and jewelry. As a graduate student her talent as a jeweler helped her pay for her studies, creating colorful paper pieces that combined her architectural training and experience with the paintbrush.
As an architect, Cynzia has worked in the commercial, governmental and residential areas. Single family homes have been her subject of expertise. During her graduate days her design for a single family home was chosen for the 1988 Atlanta’s Habitat for Humanity Project.
Cynzia’s paintings are characterized by the precision of details and by the richness of color, which is inspired by the Caribbean landscapes and bright colored architecture she grew up admiring. Her portraiture work is characterized by the amazing likeness to the subject.
Art has been Cynzia’s passion since the age of seven, when she took her first formal art class, no matter which medium or form. Although she finds architecture very similar to portraiture and painting, this last two present one distinct advantage: “Because of the immediacy of the medium, idea and artifact become one”
Artist Statement
Painting is the food for my soul, the indispensable “adobo” that completes the “sancocho” that is my life. The ingredients for this soup are in my narrative, in the narrative of others and in the episodes to come.
I am a mother, wife, friend to many, a designer, business owner, pond builder, zoo keeper, homemaker and a great cook. The basis of my creative process lies between the relationships of my everyday, combined with figure, space, thoughts, dreams, and enchantment. The mystery of what I see, feel, and my perception of reality form the narrative of my work; sometimes expressed in the innocent look of a child, the secrets of growth or in the ambiguity of truth.
Currently, my work has taken a path into the linear narrative, both figuratively and psychologically. The medium used varies but the unhurried process, the “slow-cooking” of the piece, is the constant in my work.
Adobo: food seasoning.
Sancocho: soupy beef stew.
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