The art show for Dee Sanchez opened Friday, November 6th to a standing room only crowd at Sumner & Dene Creations in Art. The gallery buzzed with positive energy as many locals came to meet Sanchez in person and to admire her work. As a special treat, Mezcla Latina provided the background music that welcomed visitors as they entered the gallery.
Sanchez lives and works in the village of Alameda, New Mexico. After raising a family, she taught herself how to paint and launched her career in 2002. Sanchez is best known as an intuitive colorist and who paints with a palette knife in the alla prima style, completing each of her paintings in one sitting. Her subjects include grand vistas, cloudscapes and skyscapes, huge, chaotic masses of native wildflowers, and the small villages and people of her state. Sanchez likes to challenge herself to paint one painting EVERY day. In pre-paration for this show alone she painted sixty paintings, sharing her progress on her daily blog with followers all over the country.
