Marta Sanchez
Pecans grow by the train yard, 2019
Oil and enamel on copper
18 x 24"

Artist Statement
I have worked this train yard series for many years. From under the large pecan tree in front of my parent's house in Texas, I watched the trains pass by with various views of the train and its tracks. Combining home with my personal landscape has become one and the same.

Artist Bio
Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, Chicana painter Marta Sanchez is deeply inspired by traditional Mexican folk-art expressions. Her works on paper are mostly linocuts and monotypes, which follow the social and cultural traditions of Mexican and Chicano/a Art.

Her work is in the collections of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, The Woodmere Art Museum Philadelphia and the Francis M. Maguire Museum in Philadelphia, PA, The Fine Art Museum of St. Petersburg, Florida, The National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago and El Museo Del Barrio in New York. Marta's work is part of actor/director Cheech Marin's extensive private collection of Chicano Art. She participated in "Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge" which traveled throughout the United States, touring from 2001 to 2006. The work in this collection resides at "The Cheech "in Riverside, Riverside CA. Marta's public art commissions can be seen in the Philadelphia area, at Simons Recreation Center, Casa Indiana indoor mural and outdoor sculpture, Reclaiming Gurney Street, a collaboration with poet David Acosta, and The Children's Hospital in Montgomery, Pennsylvania.

Marta earned an MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and a BFA in Painting from the University of Texas at Austin. She taught at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Springside Chestnut Hill Academy. She currently teaches at St. Joseph University and at the Brandywine Workshop and Archive as Special Program Coordinator. She is the co-founder of the grassroots organization "Cascarones Por La Vida," an organization that has assisted families affected by HIV/AIDS for over 30 years. Her work is currently archived at the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.

Courtesy of Chestnut Hill Gallery

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