Lidya Buzio’s Painted Ceramics: Color and Fire.

Lidya Buzio (1948-2014) was born in Uruguay in 1948. Her early years as an artist were influenced by artists of the "Taller Torres-García." She developed technically and artistically with the Spanish ceramicist José Collell. By the time Buzio moved to New York in 1974, she was already an accomplished ceramicist. Impressed by the New York architecture that had inspired Edward Hopper, by painting directly on the unfired clay, she rendered in her sculptural ceramics its cast-iron buildings and emblematic rooftop water towers. Buzio achieved a unique blend of two very distinct media; painting, which is planar, and sculpture, which implies volume. In her later oeuvre, she opted to infuse her ceramics with abstract geometric shapes in which color, line, and form played major roles.