House King’s Editor in Chief Leads Colloquium on Hispanic Artist Lydia Rubio

“Culture in the City, “South Florida’s Premier Weekly Cultural Event Series” featured a colloquium with renowned visual artist Lydia Rubio and our Editor in Chief Justo J. Sanchez. A lively event held at The Art Space in Coconut Grove, it brought together artists, collectors, musicians, and attorneys, among others. Mr. Sanchez and Ms. Rubio met at Harvard in the eighties and have maintained a close friendship since then. They both have lived and worked in New York and currently reside in Miami.

According to Sanchez, “Lydia Rubio’s work is about formulas, strategies, and maps. When looking at a canvas – her virtuoso Imago Ignota, for example – her artist’s sketchbooks, or her large scale sculptural installations, the senses, the cognitive mind, even our emotions are engaged. We are here tonight to find out why her opus requires work but is ultimately so satisfying.” He added: “Ms. Rubio gives form, visible form, and articulates linguistically those fundamental questions about forlornness, dislocation, existence, love, quest for knowledge, location in geographical and historical coordinates.”

There is a distinctive element in Lydia Rubio’s elaborate pieces: their use of words and images whether in painted surfaces, sculptural multi-panels, and integrated installations of public art. Her paintings, at times accompanied artists books, are technically refined panels that offer a conceptual reconsideration of the medium of painting. Ms. Rubio is currently working on three important public art commissions in Miami-Dade and North Carolina www.lydiarubio.com

For Mr. Sanchez, “there is an honest philosophical inquiry taking place chez Rubio. Her sketchbooks are proof of her methodological transparency. They become documents of a heroic epistemological and artistic process. Ms. Rubio’s work is provocative; it is not to be taken passively nor is it for the lazy. Puzzles, philosophy, and, certainly, serious art are not for the lazy or the weak at heart.”

Justo J. Sanchez, award-winning journalist, has written for Art Nexus, and Sotheby’s Latin American Department and was for years the Fine Arts and Culture Editor at El Diario/La Prensa in New York City. Mr. Sanchez has done post graduate work in law and economics. He read art history at New York University’s famous Institute of Fine Arts. He has taught art history and aesthetics and has lectured at local museums like the University of Miami’s Lowe. “

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