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“Color and space – those are my emotional things in relationship with art. You feel like it belongs to you, the spaces around you. Color sort of lives with me.” —Olga de Amaral
Born in 1932 in Bogotá, Colombia, artist Olga de Amaral is considered a leading figure in post-war Latin American Abstraction, and as such was also one of few artists from Latin America working in textile and fibers in the 1960s and ‘70s to become recognized internationally. After studying textiles at the Cranbrook Academy in Michigan in the mid-1950s, de Amaral developed her own artistic language that reached far beyond craft to engage with color, light, and space in abstract and innovative ways. “In their engagement with materials and processes, her works become essentially unclassifiable and self-reflexively authentic.”
In the lead-up to their spring 2019 auction of Latin American Art, Christie’s visited de Amaral at her studio in Bogotá where she spoke about her emotional connection to the elements of her art, and her studio process.
