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2001. Linocut, Edition 7/50, signed l.r. Sánchez Santamaria painter, muralist, scraatcboard and printmaker learned techniques directly from printmakers involved with the TGP including Alberto Beltrán, a major figure in Mexican art, and Adolfo Mexiac, a former student of Frida Kahlo’s and one of the TGP’s longest surviving original members. Santamaría attended a residency program at Duke University, where he completed a mural as part of the university’s Mural Durham project. He’s also created murals at New Hampshire’s Colby-Sawyer College and has toured the country giving lectures and demonstrations about printmaking. His work is now in numerous exhibitions in Mexico and internationaly , including a solo show on view at the National Palace in Mexico City.
In a 2020 interview with Nick Rowan, Santamariá proclaimed: “I’m an artist, and the core of my art is scratchboard drawing. As a profession, I’ve developed my skills in printmaking and other techniques. Although my specialty is lithography, I also work with wood, linoleum, dry point, etchings, aquatint, burin, soft varnish, mezzotint, etc.” Sánchez Santamaría has exhibited his work throughout Latin America and Europe, in the United States, and in Japan and China. He describes his art “as contemporary, with a retro and a futuristic tendency. My art is eclectic and humanistic. Humanistic because I am interested in society and in the individual.”
There have been three books published on his life and work including: Los Viernes de Cuaresma en Morelos, 2016; Sergio Sánchez Santamaría: Dos Decadas de Grafica, 2017; and Graphic in Transit: Sergio Sánchez Santamaría, 2021.
In a 2020 interview with Nick Rowan, Santamariá proclaimed: “I’m an artist, and the core of my art is scratchboard drawing. As a profession, I’ve developed my skills in printmaking and other techniques. Although my specialty is lithography, I also work with wood, linoleum, dry point, etchings, aquatint, burin, soft varnish, mezzotint, etc.” Sánchez Santamaría has exhibited his work throughout Latin America and Europe, in the United States, and in Japan and China. He describes his art “as contemporary, with a retro and a futuristic tendency. My art is eclectic and humanistic. Humanistic because I am interested in society and in the individual.”
There have been three books published on his life and work including: Los Viernes de Cuaresma en Morelos, 2016; Sergio Sánchez Santamaría: Dos Decadas de Grafica, 2017; and Graphic in Transit: Sergio Sánchez Santamaría, 2021.