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Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Lidya Buzio has worked in clay in New York since 1972, creating abstract volumes and cityscapes. She produces works that are unique for the medium, a distinctive fusion of painting and sculpture made of terracotta.

The exhibition features her New York Cityscapes, with their evocative rooflines, water towers, and architectural details; and a new series of abstract geometric designs with glowing burnished surfaces in bright primary colors.

Buzio begins by cutting earthenware slabs into geometric shapes, and then combines cylinders, cones and hemispheres to form the sculpture. She draws directly on the unfired clay and then paints with colors that she creates. The works are then burnished, and when fired the painting fuses with the red clay body.

... style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:1.0cm;line-height:normal'>Garth Clark, ceramics most noted authority, wrote of his impression the first time he saw a Buzio piece, it was 'of magical unity, form, color and material that are all one. The imagery of downtown Manhattan hugged the vessel's sensual curving shape and disappeared and reemerged from its volume, a constant kinetic shifting inwards and outwards. It had a quality of being both ancient and contemporary at the same time.'

Buzio's work is in the Painting & Sculpture Collection of the Brooklyn Museum & the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; in the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Fine Arts Museums; the Nelson-Atkins, and Everson Museums; the Victoria & Albert, London; and other museums and private collections internationally