Raquel Sanchez
Raquel Sanchez (born 1960s) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and poet.[1]
Early life
[edit | edit source]Sanchez was born in Paris, France to Ellen Lapidus Stern, an American artist and Juan Sánchez Peláez, celebrated Venezuelan poet and winner of the National Prize winner for Literature.[2] She grew up travelling between New York, Ibiza, Morocco and Venezuela[3] and meeting famous artists such as Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat.[4]
Art
[edit | edit source]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.[5] Her art was again featured in the Jerusalem Biennale in 2021
Her work has been used in publications such as Makor Rishon[6] Arc[7] and Can Magazine.[8] She is a featured artist in the Rosenbach Contemporary gallery in Jerusalem.[9]
In 2024 she participated in Helmets for Heroes, with proceeds going to NATAL – the Israel Trauma and Resiliency Center.[10] In 2024 her exhibition Many Waters was featured at The Artist's House in Rishon LeZion curated by Vera Pilpoul.[11][12] 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."[13]
In January 2025, her exhibition Viewing Spirituality was displayed at The Artists’ House in Tel Aviv[14] and reviewed favorably by The Jerusalem Post as "abstract but have clear figurative elements."[4] In April 2025 her art was featured at the Periscope Galley in Tel Aviv as part of the Behind the Reflection exhibition.[15]
Poetry
[edit | edit source]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.[16] 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.[17]
Social work
[edit | edit source]Sanchez earned a master's degree in social work from Yeshiva University.[3] 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.[12][18] It was called a sanctuary for English-speaking youth.[19] 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.[20]
External links
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- 1960s births
- Living people
- 21st-century American Jews
- 21st-century American painters
- 21st-century American poets
- 21st-century American women painters
- 21st-century American women writers
- American expatriates in Israel
- American people of Venezuelan descent
- American women poets
- Jewish American poets
- Jewish women artists
- Jewish women painters
- Jewish painters
- Jewish women writers
- Israeli poetry
- Jewish poets
- Yeshiva University alumni