Armando Amaya

Sculptor Armando Amaya is one of Mexico's great interpreters of female form.  Like much of the evocative art created in the Latin American tradition, Amaya's work is a confluence of European and indigenous esthetics.  Born in Mexico City in 1935, Amaya studied at the National School of Painting and Sculpture under Jose Ruiz and Francisco Zuniga. 

In addition to benefiting from formal training, Amaya also learned from his environment. His sensitivity to nature taught him reverence for growth, for developing and unfolding shapes. 

Today, Amaya works directly from the model.  His portrayal of the female body is dignified and graceful, a melding of the Mexican Figurative movement with modernist experimentation.  His sensual figures maintain a constant tension between inner spirituality and ideal strength: ideals to which Amaya's sculpture consistently testifies.