LINDA SÁNCHEZ-PINTOR
San Juan, Puerto Rico
ARTIST STATEMENT
Art as a transformative entity of social change seeks to transcend what limits, confines, separates, and differentiates us. Community art serves for the participant’s construction and education, complementing individual action with collective reflection, thus achieving a common identity and sense of belonging. This way art becomes a liaison that empowers communities, creating or reinventing community leaders who will give continuity to the work initiated by artists.
Through the sculpture I aspire to document the meaning of experiences of the community’s participants and the result of the transdisciplinary research of the artists. The complexity that evolves from the networking process within the internal and external environment will result in emergent properties that will be represented through multidimensionality.
The inclusion of metal as protagonist in my work is simultaneous to the introduction of my work as an artist. Essentially, the steel as the prevailing material and the work’s dimensions, the meaning, and the composition in affinity to the environment. It is about working with steel as a constructive material in reference to its mass, weight, support, compression, and friction, what binds me to the continuous development of works that lead to this purpose.
Through the study of the architecture’s principles, the referents that address all structural elements, is how I approach in multiple ways the results of a fundamentally investigative work throughout the methods of manufacturing, engineering, and construction.
Observation is what highlight the steel’s potential as one of the most effective materials in the making of pieces that, through design and composition, manage to apprehend my greatest concern: the spatial arrangement.
Based on the study of various construction possibilities, I come to forged iron (known as cor- ten steel), stainless steel, and reinforced steel; materials that have accompanied my work during the past 30 years.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Linda Sánchez-Pintor, MFA
PUBLIC ART
DESTRUCTION REFLECTS Metal, Autonomous Municipality of Carolina, Carolina, PR, 2016.
CONSTRUCTION REFLECTS Metal, Plaza de los Artistas, Guaynabo, PR, 2008.
HERE BEGINS THE REST Metal, University of Puerto Rico, Carolina Campus, Carolina, PR, 2008.
ARC IN CIRCLE Metal, Puerto Rico Children's Hospital, Bayamón, PR, 2007.
REFLEXION DEFLEXION Metal, Dorado Beach East, PR, 2006.
FIGURE IN WAITING Metal, Altos de Chavón Cultural Center Foundation, La Romana, Dominican Republic, 1998.
FIGURE AT REST Metal, Casa de Campo, La Romana, Dominican Republic, 1998.
MOLINO FIGURE Metal, Ritz Carlton San Juan Hotel & Casino, San Juan, PR, 1997. SERIAL DEPLOYMENT Metal, Guaynabo, PR, 1997.
FIGURE IN REST Metal, Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, PR, 1996.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
LINDA SÁNCHEZ- PINTOR, SCULPTURES, ... from Art Museum Gallery, Santurce, Puerto Rico, 2013.
HERE BEGINS THE REST, SCULPTURE, University of Puerto Rico, Campus of Carolina, Puerto Rico, 2008.
ONLY SCULPTURES, Carmen Correa Contemporáneo, Santurce, Puerto Rico, 2007.
FROM MY ATRIUM, Tribute to the Masters, Chamber of Commerce of Puerto Rico San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2002.
RECENT WORK, Chamber of Commerce of Puerto Rico San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2002.
CIRCULARITY IN ART, Chamber of Commerce of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2000.
SCULPTURES, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1998.
HABITAT, Museum of Art and History of San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1997.
LINDA PINTOR, SCULPTURES, Prinardi Galleries, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1995.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS [SELECTION]
CORRESPONDENCIA_postcards exhibition, El Lobby & Taller Malaquita, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2018.
8 SCULPTORS IN THE SAMPLE, Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico, 2017.
PUBLIC ART ROUTE PLAZA Ex-Alumni University of Puerto Rico, Carolina Campus, Carolina, Puerto Rico, 2015.
CAUSALITY: SANTURCE IS LEY Fifth Edition, El Vagón Osviarte, Santurce, Puerto Rico, 2014.
ABC: Contemporary Boricuas Artists Vol. III, 20/20 Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2014.
INSIDE AND OUT Fifteenth Exhibition Sculpture Department, School of Fine Arts of Puerto Rico, José Campeche Exhibition Hall, Museum of San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2013.
XESCULTURA Annual Exhibition Sculpture Department Exhibition Hall, Old Insular Asylum, School of Fine Arts of Puerto Rico, 2012.
REAPERTURA SAMPLE Bayamón Art Museum Luis A. Ferré Science Park, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, 2012.
AUCTION SHOWS Bayamón Art Museum Luis A. Ferré Science Park, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, 2011.
PERMANENT COLLECTION Bayamón Art Museum, Luis A. Ferré Science Park, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, 2010.
WOMAN PAINTER Contemporary Puerto Rican Art Collection Cooperativa de Seguros Múltiples of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, 2009.
INAUGURATION Plaza de los Artistas, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 2008.
Exhibition of the REYES VERAY COLLECTION Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2008.
CIRCA Puerto Rico '08 International Art Fair Third Edition Convention Center of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2008.
100 IMAGES OF CORRETJER IN THE TIME Former Navy Arsenal Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2008.
CIRCA Puerto Rico '07 International Art Fair Convention Center of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto, 2007.
ART for all Association of Art Galleries of Puerto Rico, Petrus Gallery, Miramar, Puerto Rico, 2006.
PR ART AND WINE FAIR First Fair of Arts and Wines in Puerto Rico, Convention Center of Puerto Rico San Juan, PR, 2006.
PUERTO RICAN ART: IMAGE OF A CULTURE, Cooperativa de Seguros Múltiples de Puerto Rico, Museum of Art of Puerto Rico San Juan, PR, 2005.
ART FOR ALL, Association of Art Galleries of Puerto Rico, Petrus Gallery, Miramar, Puerto Rico, 2004.
THE WOMAN IN FINE ARTS, Chamber of Commerce of Puerto Rico San Juan, PR, 2003. Colectiva, Prinardi Galleries, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2002.
THE WELCOME, Prinardi Galleries, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2002.
SCULPTURES OF THE I AND II BIENNIAL OF THE STEEL INDUSTRY All Steel, Hotel Caribe Hilton San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2002.
ONE NIGHT FOR PEACE, Prinardi Galleries, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2002.
THE LANDSCAPE FROM INSIDE, Prinardi Galleries, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2002.
THE PRESENCE OF PUERTO RICAN ART IN THE MOVEMENT OF LATIN AMERICAN ART, Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2002.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION, Prinardi Galleries, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2001.
FIRST AND SECOND BIENNIAL OF THE STEEL INDUSTRY, Museum of Art of Puerto Rico San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2001.
IV GREAT AUCTION OF PUERTO RICAN ART, Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, 2001.
NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF PUERTO RICAN ART, Former Navy Arsenal, Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2001.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION, Prinardi Galleries, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2000.
DUET FOR WOMEN, Prinardi Galleries, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1999.
FIRST SCULPTURE BIENNIAL IN THE STEEL INDUSTRY ALL STEEL, Dorado, Puerto Rico, 1999.
PUERTO RICO- NEW YORK: TWO WAY JOURNEY Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, New York, 1999.
THE 11TH ARTEX PARIS'99 Galerie Transversale, Paris, 1999.
PRESENCE OF THE LATIN AMERICAN PAINTING OF TODAY, Museum of the Americas, Cuartel of Ballajá, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1999.
WOMEN IN THE ARTS '99 The Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art Coral Gables, Florida, 1999.
RECENT WORKS, Galleries Prinardi San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1998.
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, Altos de Chavón Cultural Center Foundation, Dominican Republic, 1998.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION, Prinardi Galleries, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1998.
COLLECTIVE CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION, Prinardi Galleries, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1997.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION, Prinardi Galleries, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1997.
QUINTA ESSENTIA, House of the Rectory of the Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico, 1996.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION, Prinardi Galleries, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1996.
PLEIADES: SIETE ESCULTORES Gallery San Juan Bautista, Museum of Art and History, Municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1995.
ColLECTIVE EXHIBITION, Prinardi Galleries, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1995.
EXHIBITION HOMAGE TO THE ARTIST ANDY BUESO, Prinardi Galleries, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1995.
SECOND BIENNIAL FINE ARTS CONTEST, Casa Roig Museum, Humacao, Puerto Rico, 1994.
ANNUAL EXHIBITION School of Fine Arts of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1994.
AWARDS
Chancellor's Medal University of Puerto Rico, awarded by the Carolina Campus, Puerto Rico, 2008.
Best Collective Exhibition of the Year Award First Exhibition of Sculpture Biennial in the Steel Industry All Steel, Dorado, Puerto Rico, granted by the International Association of Art Critics Chapter of Puerto Rico (AICA), 2000.
Honorable Mention Women in the Arts '99 The Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art Coral Gable, Florida, 1999.
Artist Resident Spring / Summer 1998, Artists in Residence Program, Altos de Chavón Cultural Center Foundation, The School of Design, Dominican Republic (Affiliation for Latin America of Parsons School of Design).
Medal of Honor F.V.D. Compostela in Sculpture of the School of Fine Arts of Puerto Rico, 1994.