Informed Informalism: Gramcko, Otero, Pardo, and Sanin

Our exhibition, “Informed Informalism: Gramcko, Otero, Pardo, and Sanin”, will be open September 13 - November 22, 2025. The exhibition features Colombian artist Fanny Sanin, and Venezuelan artists Elsa Gramcko, Mercedes Pardo and Alejandro Otero. In Twentieth Century Art of Latin America, Barnitz states, “Informalismo (informalism), as this type of abstraction was known in Latin America, took two main directions: one that depended on surface elaboration and texture, the other, on gestural brush strokes.” In the 1950s and 1960s many Latin American artists—at great political and professional peril— produced works that expanded the limits of abstract art.