Lidya Buzio
Lidya Buzio | |
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| Born | 1948 Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Died | September 30, 2014 (aged 65–66) [[Greenport, Suffolk County, New York
|Greenport]], New York, United States |
| Other names | Lydia Buzio |
| Occupation(s) | Ceramist, visual artist |
| Known for | Ceramics, pottery, sculpture |
| Website | lidyabuzio |
Lidya Buzio (1948 – September 30, 2014) was an Uruguayan-born American ceramist, potter, and sculptor.
Biography
[edit]Lidya Buzio was born in 1948, in Montevideo, Uruguay.[1] Her father was a descent from Italian artisans.[1]
Buzio studied with artists of the Taller Torres-Garcia in Montevideo, including José Montes, José Collell, and Guillermo Fernandez.[2] She moved to New York City in 1971; in the 1990s she moved again, to the North Fork of Long Island.[3] She crafted mainly burnished black pots onto which she would paint scenes of New York rooftops.[4]
Buzio died of cancer at her home in Greenport, Long Island, aged 65 and survived by her husband, sister and two brothers.[3]
Examples of Buzio's work are in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum;[5] the Arizona State University Art Museum; the Berkeley Art Museum; the Brooklyn Museum; the Everson Museum of Art; the Hallmark Art Collection; the Honolulu Academy of Art; the Long Beach Museum of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Taipei Fine Arts Museum; the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; the National Museum of History; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art; the Racine Art Museum; the Rhode Island School of Design Museum; the Spencer Museum of Art; the University of Iowa Museum of Art; and the Victoria and Albert Museum.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Beardsley, John; Livingston, Jane (1987). Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters & Sculptors. Museum of Fine Arts. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-89659-688-7.
- ^ American Ceramics: The Collection of Everson Museum of Art. Everson Museum of Art. Rizzoli. 1989. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-8478-1025-3.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ a b "Lidya Buzio's Obituary on New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 June 2017 – via Legacy.com.
- ^ Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein (1990). American women sculptors: a history of women working in three dimensions. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8732-4.
- ^ "Lidya Buzio". Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM).
- ^ "Lidya Buzio". The Marks Project. Archived from the original on 6 January 2021. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
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