Irma Palacios, an artist from the state of Guerrero, who is considered one of the best abstract expressionist painters in Mexico, was born in Iguala in 1943. She grew in diverse places: Coahuila, Oaxaca and Puebla because of her father, an Education Inspector. Palacios returned to Iguala where she began to be interested in drawing and painting. At the age of fifteen, she moved to Mexico City. She attended the workshop of Reyes Haro at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado " La Esmeralda". As a regular student, Palacios met there Francisco, José, Miguel and Alberto Castro Leñero, Ilse Gradwohl, Gilda Castillo, Victoria Compañ, Gabriel Macotela. Between 1973 and 1979, she investigated about pictorial materials, then her work was influenced by the Spanish Informalism: she took the forms and textures the Nature offered her until joined Abstractionism that continues in her work. She gained the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and one from the Sistema Nacional de Creadores. She won the first prize of the Painting Biennial "Rufino Tamayo". She had have solo shows in the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (1993); Museo Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (1995); Chac-Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, California (1995) and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Yucatán (2003), between many other museums and galleries in Mexico and the United States. Her work has been classified inside the Lyric Abstractionism, where its most notable precedent in our country was Lilia Carrillo.
Works in Blaisten Collection
Paisaje en interiores
Mixta / tela
100 x 120 cm
Crónica antigua
Mixta / tela
160 x 130 cm
Censurado
(1979)
Mixta / tela
120 x 100 cm
Tregua
(1980)
Acrílico / tela
120 x 100 cm
Piel de arena
(1982)
Mixta / tela
100 x 120 cm
Signos rescatados
(1984)
Mixta / tela
150 x 180 cm
Principios de luz
(1984)
Mixta / tela
140 x 140 cm
Sin título
(1984)
Acrílico / papel
100 x 70.5 cm
Reina negra
(1987)
Mixta / tela
100 x 100 cm
Sin título
(1987)
Mixta / tela
100 x 125 cm
Sin título
(1988)
Encáustica / madera
122.5 x 61 cm
Irma Palacios
, n. 1943 
