Raquel Sanchez
Raquel Sanchez (born 1960s) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and poet.[1]
Early life
[edit]Sanchez was born in Paris,[2] France to Ellen Lapidus Stern, an American artist and Juan Sánchez Peláez, celebrated Venezuelan poet and winner of the National Prize winner for Literature.[3] She grew up travelling between New York, Ibiza, Morocco and Venezuela[4] and meeting famous artists such as Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat.[5]
Art
[edit]Sanchez's oil paintings were featured in the 2019 Jerusalem Biennale in the Of Wonder exhibit held at the North Africa Jewish Heritage Center.[1] Her work was hand-picked by curator Mindy Weisel whom she met at the Uri Rosenbach Contemporary gallery. The grand opening featured Sanchez painting in front of a live audience accompanied by musicians Daniel Zamir and Kobi Arad.[6] Her art was again featured in the Jerusalem Biennale in 2021
Her work has been used in publications such as Makor Rishon[7] Arc[8] and Can Magazine.[9] She is a featured artist in the Rosenbach Contemporary gallery in Jerusalem.[10]
In 2024 she participated in Helmets for Heroes, with proceeds going to NATAL – the Israel Trauma and Resiliency Center.[11] In 2024 her exhibition Many Waters was featured at The Artist's House in Rishon LeZion curated by Vera Pilpoul.[12][13] It was described as "figurative and the abstract," with elements "given to seascapes, and seawater as one of the elements in the universe and as a reflection of human feelings and experiences. Another representation is given to the sky, which is sometimes blue, a color that means heavenly and spiritual, and sometimes changes to other shades."[14]
In January 2025, her exhibition Viewing Spirituality was displayed at The Artists’ House in Tel Aviv[15] and reviewed favorably by The Jerusalem Post as "abstract but have clear figurative elements."[5] In April 2025 her art was featured at the Periscope Galley in Tel Aviv as part of the Behind the Reflection exhibition.[16]
In October 2025 Sanchez's solo exhibition Light from Darkness was shown at the Marie Gallery in Jerusalem and featured her paintings and foray into book binding and screen-printing.[17] In November 2025 she was featured in Fragments, an exhibition in Jerusalem of art dealing with the October 7th massacre in Israel.[18]
Poetry
[edit]Sanchez is a published poet with her work appearing multiple times in Arc: the Journal of the Israel Association of Writers in English, chaired by Karen Alkalay-Gut.[19] She has also been published in the International Library of Poetry and Voices Israel.
In 2022, she was co-translator of a new bilingual edition of poetry by her father Juan Sánchez Peláez entitled El alba es el leopardo.[20]
Social work
[edit]Sanchez earned a master's degree in social work from Yeshiva University.[4] She worked for Congress of Racial Equality in the late 1980s as a social worker and in the legal department. In the 1990s, she founded and directed the Rose Institute, a center for at-risk youth in Jerusalem.[13][21] It was called a sanctuary for English-speaking youth.[22] The Rose Institute partnered with Kidum Noar, an at-risk youth program in Jerusalem and the Ministry of Education in 2001 to form Crossroads Jerusalem.[23]
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 "Raquel Sanchez". www.celesteprize.com. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
- ↑ "INTERVIEW with Raquel Sanchez". Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art. 2026-03-11. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
- ↑ Hurtado, Miguel Ángel (2022-09-25). "Juan Sánchez Peláez: revelación y transparencia". Fundación para la Cultura Urbana (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-16.
- 1 2 "Raquel Sanchez Art". Raquel Sanchez Art. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
- 1 2 "'Viewing Spirituality': Artist Raqeul Sanchez's exhibition digs into her Jewish spirituality". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2025-02-05.
- ↑ "Fusing Israeli art, life and Judaism". The Jerusalem Post. 2019-11-08. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
- ↑ וולפיש, שלמה. "הריקוד העדין של הווידוי ביום כיפור". www.makorrishon.co.il. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
- ↑ "arc 30: Serendipity". Israel Association of Writers in English. 2023-11-04. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
- ↑ פלפול, ורה (September–October 2024). "מים רבים". כאן (91): 84.
- ↑ "Raquel Sanchez, Post-Renovation". rosenbach.co.il.
- ↑ "Helmets for Heroes charity art catalogue" (PDF). Ynet.
- ↑ ברנע, רעות (2024-09-18). "יאללה בלאגן: 20 תערוכות שיעזרו לכם לזכור ולשכוח את הסופ"ש". יאללה בלאגן: 20 תערוכות שיעזרו לכם לזכור ולשכוח את הסופ"ש - טיים אאוט (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2025-04-28.
- 1 2 Klein Halevi, Yossi (August 31, 1998). "Raquel's Kids". Jerusalem Report. IX (9): 22–24.
- ↑ Ziva (2024-10-09). "רחל סנצ'ז, מים רבים, אוצרת: ורה פלפול, בית האמנים, גבעתי 17, ראשון לציון, 19.10.2024-20.9.2024". מֵעֵבֶר לַמַּרְאָה (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-11-18.
- ↑ "להתבונן ברוחניות «" (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2025-01-18.
- ↑ Barnea, Reut (2025-04-08). "מאחורי הבבואה בגלריה פריסקופ". מגזין פורטפוליו (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2025-04-23.
- ↑ Goodman, Bonnie K. "The Blogs: From Shadow to Spirit: Raquel Sanchez's Light From Darkness at the Marie Gallery". Retrieved 2025-12-28.
- ↑ "'Fragments': Exhibit on the trauma, resilience post-Oct. 7". The Jerusalem Post. 2025-11-01. ISSN 0792-822X. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
- ↑ Klein, Steven (Sep 28, 2017). "Poetry of Protest Comes to Tel Aviv". Haaretz.
- ↑ "El alba es el leopardo". NILA ediciones (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-18.
- ↑ Halle, Charlotte. "Emerging from the shadows". International Herald Tribune.
- ↑ Silver, Eric (2000-01-27). "Lost in Jerusalem". Jewish Journal. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
- ↑ Hoffman, Gil (June 2, 2000). "Anglo kids in distress. The death of a teenager has focused concern on a menacing undertow in Jerusalem's downtown street life". Jerusalem Post.
Things are beginning to change however. Jerusalem's Youth Development Department - Kidum Noar began working intensively with Anglo kids two years ago taking Sanchez under its wing.
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- American people of Venezuelan descent
- Jewish American poets
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