Artists
Dominica Sánchez
Born in Barcelona in 1945, Dominica Sánchez trained at the Llotja School of Arts and Crafts and later studied engraving at the International Centre for Graphic Research in Calella, the town where she currently resides.
Sánchez is a highly regarded artist known for her works on paper, particularly her large-format pieces created with pastel and charcoal. These works feature distinctive geometries that the artist explores repeatedly until making them her own: circles, triangles, intersecting lines, and even references to the musical world, always with rhythmic and intuitive gestures. However, her work is not limited to drawing and engraving, as it also encompasses painting and iron sculpture, always with echoes of Cubism and Constructivism.
The artist herself explains that the gestural quality of her work is very similar to the movements she makes in her domestic tasks. Although she avoids any conventional prettiness—her austere and rigorous aesthetic is likely linked to the hardships of her childhood during the post-war period—her work remains intimate and warm. The critic Maria Lluïsa Borràs places her, in fact, within the line of Catalan spiritual painting, highlighting her introspection and evocative nature.
Dominica Sánchez has a long career and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the mid-1990s, in museums and galleries both nationally and internationally, especially in France, Switzerland, Germany, and even the United States.
