Lidya Buzio. X, 2012, painted earthenware, 12 ½ x 7 ½ in.
Lidya Buzio. III, 2013, painted earthenware, 11 x 10 ½ in.
Lidya Buzio. X, 2007, painted earthenware, 9 ½ x 9 ¾ in.
Lidya Buzio. III, 2009, painted earthenware, 11 x 7 ½ x 3 in.
Lidya Buzio. XX, 2006, painted earthenware, 7 ½ x 9 ½ in.
Lidya Buzio. VIII, 1990, painted earthenware, 9 ¼ x 7 in.
Lidya Buzio. V, 1992, painted earthenware, 15 x 5 in.
Lidya Buzio. XVII, 2002, painted earthenware, height 13 in.
Lidya Buzio. XIX, 2008, painted earthenware, 11 x 9 in.
Lidya Buzio. III, 2007, painted earthenware, 13 ½ x 7 in.
Continuing Sicardi Ayers Bacino Gallery's 30th anniversary celebrations, we are pleased to announce Lidya Buzio's exhibit, Lidya Buzio’s Painted Ceramics: Color and Fire, on view from June 28 to August 30, 2025.
OPENING RECEPTION AT SICARDI | AYERS | BACINO
Saturday, June 28 at 6:00 pm.
EXHIBITION DATES
June 28 - August 30, 2025.
Lidya Buzio (1948-2014) was born in Montevideo, Uruguay and settled in New York in 1973. Her early years as an artist were influenced by her close association with the Torres-García family and the artists of the Taller Torres-García. Buzio studied under the aegis of the Spanish ceramicist José Collell, creating clay sculpture from earthenware slabs and shaping them with curved patterns, drawing and painting directly onto the unfired clay. Once she moved to New York City, reflecting on her new surroundings, her vessels depict the buildings and skyline of lower Manhattan.
In 2005, she began to work with the architectural elements of the rural villages and the North Fork of Long Island seascapes. In 2009, Buzio shifted to working on abstract geometric shapes where pure colors in unexpected combinations played the leading role. She continued to explore these dynamic abstractions until her death in 2014.
Buzio's solo exhibititions include: Art Sites, NY (2006) and the Everson Museum of Art, NY (1985). Group exhibitions include: Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark & Mark Del Vecchio Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX (2012); Collecting with Passion: Contemporary Ceramics - Lennie & Jerry Berkowitz Collection, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO (2010); An Art of Our Own: Women Ceramicists from the Permanent Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY (2007); Sueños y Encuentros, Works by Latin American Masters, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA (2003); Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters & Sculptors, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; and The Brooklyn Museum, NY.
Her works are included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, NY; the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX; the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, CA; the Honolulu Academy of Art, HI; the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; Long Beach Museum of Art, CA; Berkeley Art Museum, CA; Arizona State University Art Museum, AZ; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the National Museum of History, Taipei City, Taiwan, and other international museums and private collections.
