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1957 in Washington, DC; lives in Panama City) Por Panamá la Vida (2019) features video the artist shot that documents the last years of General Manuel Noriega’s dictatorship from a domestic point of view. In 2002 she taught kiln casting at the Real Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja in San Idelfonso, Spain. She has frequently attended The Pilchuck Glass School since 1987, where she has studied engraving and glass casting and has served as an International Council Member.
Funding has been made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She returned to La Granja as an artist in residence in 2003 and in the same year had solo exhibitions at the Museo de Arte en Vidrio de Alcorcón in Madrid and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Panama.
The piece concludes with the 1990 US invasion of Panama and the fall of Noriega, who was an alum of the School of the Americas (SOA) US military training program.
Isabel De Obaldía was born in Washington D.C. in 1957 of French and Panamanian parents.
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In 2006, she completed a fellowship at the Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center in Millville, NJ and returned there in 2007 and 2008 to cast large-scale works which are then shipped to Panama for polishing and engraving. She studied architecture at the University of Panama and drawing at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris before receiving a BFA in Graphic Design and Cinematography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1979.
Along with her work in glass, De Obaldía has recently been creating animations and narrative short films, which have been shown in international film festivals.
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She went on to study at the Art Students League in New York in 1982 and has been going to Pilchuck Glass School since 1987, where she has studied with such masters as Jiri Harcuba and Bertil Vallien.In 1990, she received the John Hauberg Fellowship from Pilchuck. De Obaldia has been invited on several occasions to participate in glass symposia in the Czech Republic. In 2002, she taught kiln casting at the Real Fabrica de Cristales de La Granja in San Idelfonso, Spain. She returned to La Granja as an artist in residence in 2003 and had a solo exhibition at the Museo de Arte en Vidrio de Alcorcon in Madrid in December 2003.
Once a well-known painter representing her country in international exhibitions and biennials, De Obaldia is currently forging a strong reputation as a glass sculptor. She is represented in the U.S.
by New York-based gallery, Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, and lives in Panama with her husband and twin boys.
Copyright © 2024 Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center. De Obaldía narrates throughout, weaving together scenes from her family’s daily life with drawings she made (also on view) that further process the tumultuous moment.
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Isabel De Obaldia
Isabel De Obaldia was born in Washington, D.C.
in 1957 of French and Panamanian heritage. All Rights Reserved. In 2009, she won the Rakow Commission at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York. From 2011-2012, De Obaldía had a mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale titled Primordial: Paintings and Sculpture by Isabel De Obaldia. In 1990 she received the John Hauberg Fellowship from Pilchuck.
De Obaldía has been selected on several occasions to participate as a guest artist in international painting, sculpture and glass symposia as well as survey shows of contemporary art.
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