Artist's Statement

Printmaking continues to be a stimulating avenue for me. It has opened a whole other creative, aesthetic, formal and conceptual world thanks to the insistences and encouragement of the late, great artist and master printer Robert Blackburn. The combination and experimentation of various printmaking techniques to create one impression has further enriched form and content as layerings resulting into a vast array of surface, color and texture.

Through my art, I wish to stimulate and elevate our consciousness of life's virtues and point to the paradoxes that threaten it.

Biography

Juan Sanchez earned his B.F.A. in 1997 from the Cooper Union School of the Arts in New York City. Three years later, Sanchez received his M.F.A. from the Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers in New Jersey.

In 1999, the Jersey City Museum mounted a retrospective of Sanchez's prints called Printed Convictions. His work has also been featured in solo exhibitions in the United States and the Caribbean. These shows include: Juan Sanchez: Rican/Structions at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York; 1898: Rican/Struction: Multi-layered Impressions, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY;and Juan Sanchez: Works on Paper, Brandywine Workshop Printed Image Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

Sanchez was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1988. His work has been exhibited and is represented in the permanent collections of many public and private collections including, in New York, those of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, El Museo del Barrio, and in the Caribbean at the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan, and Casa de las Americas and the Centro Wilfredo Lam in Havana.