Lidya Buzio
Lidya Buzio | |
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Born | 1948 |
Died | September 30, 2014 [[Greenport, Suffolk County, New York
|Greenport]], New York, United States | (aged 65–66)
Nationality | Uruguay |
Citizenship | United States |
Occupation(s) | ceramist, visual artist |
Website | https://lidyabuzio.com/bio |
Lidya Buzio (1948 – September 30, 2014) was an Uruguayan-born American ceramist.
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Buzio studied with artists of the Taller Torres-Garcia in Montevideo before moving to New York City in 1971; in the 1990s she moved again, to the North Fork of Long Island.[1] She crafted mainly burnished black pots onto which she would paint scenes of New York rooftops.[2]
An example of Buzio's work is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum;[3] other museums with pieces in their collections include 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.[4]
Buzio died of cancer at her home in Greenport, Long Island, aged 65 and survived by her husband, sister and two brothers.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "LIDYA BUZIO's Obituary on New York Times". New York Times. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
- ^ Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein (1990). American women sculptors: a history of women working in three dimensions. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8732-4.
- ^ "Artworks Search Results / American Art". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 23 June 2017.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Buzio – The Marks Project". www.themarksproject.org. Archived from the original on 6 January 2021. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
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