My work is propelled by a desire to both revel in and to transcend (perhaps as well to ultimately alchemize) a persistent sense of displacement in the human world. These works aim to fuse ancient and archetypal geometric forms with inky randomness to form totems to the idea that the big mess of it all will be beautiful eventually, and sometimes is so, even now. These are images that, having traveled the arc of the Ugly Duckling paradigm, are emboldened to be quietly and defiantly elegant.

– Lourdes Sanchez

Lourdes Sanchez is a Cuban-born artist whose primary medium is watercolor, which she uses to explore compositions that are equal parts geometric and organic. Her watercolors flirt with pattern and over the years her paintings have attracted the attention of the fashion and design industries, and her art has been translated into fabrics for leading designers. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Merida, Yucatan.