Texas-based, mixed media artist and gallerist, Maricela Sanchez uses her creativity and craftsmanship to break down barriers between art and daily life. To Maricela, art is multi-faceted and all-encompassing.
Maricela works as a fine artist and a design artist, but doesn’t limit her creativity to just one area. She explores all artistic avenues, experimenting with a variety of materials to fully express her creativity, while embracing the process.
Maricela's work often take organic forms, intuitively striking a balance of nostalgia and anticipation, sophistication and sass, ambiguity and clarity. Her deep passion and innovative spirit are reflected in her work.
Sanchez's monoprints were created at Flatbed during Covid. She uses her creativity and craftsmanship to break down barriers between art and daily life. Over the past 40 years, Sanchez has worked as a high-end industrial designer and practices as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and mixed media artist.
During 2020, Sanchez felt affected by news of the economy, the stimulus checks, and countless stories of sadness and hardships stemming from the pandemic. After vaccinations were released, Sanchez traveled to Flatbed and started a series of monoprints that carried her response to her time of isolation. Using the iconic imagery of a $100 bill and repeating patterns of lips in the multi-layered monoprints, Sanchez created her own currency. The results are a vibrant, cheeky, layered physically and conceptually series of large monoprints.
“During 2020 I lived vicariously through my art, creating new work in an unprecedented capacity. Finally 2021… I was vaccinated and released…I was stimulated printing money. I have a love for life… and I value love and money.”
Maricela's art is owned by public, private, and museum collections. She lives in Texas with her husband and their beloved pets.
