The Panamanian painter has made her mark on Dallas' Tin District, and her feminist pop-surrealism contains multitudes.
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“Panama is kind of a complicated place to make art, because there aren't as many resources as there are here.” she explains. “The financial situation of the economy was not doing that great. And I am very lucky and privileged that my parents had me in the U.S. before we moved to Panama. So I have citizenship. … I kind of wanted to try something new, and was a good place to land.”, when her mother created and operated a hand-painted T-shirt business during pregnancy.
“I feel like are often the protagonists of art, but not the artist,” Sanz says. “I just feel like I draw things that are overtly feminine, overtly cute, prettier and pink or whatever because I feel like it's so often that we are put into a second-class. … The street-art world is hyper-competitive, and women have to work twice as hard to even be taken seriously. So I was like, I'm going to draw the girliest shit ever and be taken seriously anyway.
SM Sanz is also known to place her characters against backdrops of lush landscapes to encompass a feminine connection to the natural world, and her prevalent use of repetition plays a role close to her heart.
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