Raquel Sanchez


Raquel Sanchez (born 1960s) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and poet.[1]

Early life

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

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

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

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]

References

  1. ^ a b "Raquel Sanchez". www.celesteprize.com. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  2. ^ Hurtado, Miguel Ángel (2022-09-25). "Juan Sánchez Peláez: revelación y transparencia". Fundación para la Cultura Urbana (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  3. ^ a b "Raquel Sanchez Art". Raquel Sanchez Art. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  4. ^ a b "'Viewing Spirituality': Artist Raqeul Sanchez's exhibition digs into her Jewish spirituality". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2025-02-05.
  5. ^ "Fusing Israeli art, life and Judaism". The Jerusalem Post. 2019-11-08. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  6. ^ וולפיש, שלמה. "הריקוד העדין של הווידוי ביום כיפור". www.makorrishon.co.il. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
  7. ^ "arc 30: Serendipity". Israel Association of Writers in English. 2023-11-04. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
  8. ^ פלפול, ורה (September–October 2024). "מים רבים". כאן (91): 84.
  9. ^ "Raquel Sanchez, Post-Renovation". rosenbach.co.il.
  10. ^ "Helmets for Heroes charity art catalogue" (PDF). Ynet.
  11. ^ ברנע, רעות (2024-09-18). "יאללה בלאגן: 20 תערוכות שיעזרו לכם לזכור ולשכוח את הסופ"ש". יאללה בלאגן: 20 תערוכות שיעזרו לכם לזכור ולשכוח את הסופ"ש - טיים אאוט (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2025-04-28.
  12. ^ a b Klein Halevi, Yossi (August 31, 1998). "Raquel's Kids". Jerusalem Report. IX (9): 22–24.
  13. ^ Ziva (2024-10-09). "רחל סנצ'ז, מים רבים, אוצרת: ורה פלפול, בית האמנים, גבעתי 17, ראשון לציון, 19.10.2024-20.9.2024". מֵעֵבֶר לַמַּרְאָה (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-11-18.
  14. ^ "להתבונן ברוחניות «" (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2025-01-18.
  15. ^ Barnea, Reut (2025-04-08). "מאחורי הבבואה בגלריה פריסקופ". מגזין פורטפוליו (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2025-04-23.
  16. ^ Klein, Steven (Sep 28, 2017). "Poetry of Protest Comes to Tel Aviv". Haaretz.
  17. ^ "El alba es el leopardo". NILA ediciones (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-18.
  18. ^ Halle, Charlotte. "Emerging from the shadows". International Herald Tribune.
  19. ^ Silver, Eric (2000-01-27). "Lost in Jerusalem". Jewish Journal. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
  20. ^ Hoffman, Gil (June 2, 2000). "Anglo kids in distress. The death of a teenager has focused concern on a menacing undertow in Jerusalem's downtown street life". Jerusalem Post. Things are beginning to change however. Jerusalem's Youth Development Department - Kidum Noar began working intensively with Anglo kids two years ago taking Sanchez under its wing.
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