{{Short description|Mexican sculptor (born 1920)}} {{more citations needed|date=June 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Amelia Abascal Gómez <!-- include middle initial, if not specified in birth_name --> | image = Amelia Abascal 1969 Valladolid.jpg | alt = | caption = Amelia Abascal Gómez in Valladolid, Spain, 1969. | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date text|1920}} | birth_place = Madrid, Spain | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Painter, sculptor | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''Amelia Abascal Gómez''' (born 1920) was a Spanish-born Mexican painter, sculptor, and ceramist.
== Life and career == Abascal was born in Madrid, Spain in 1920.<ref name = pares>{{cite web|website=PARES. Portal de Archivos Españoles. Movimientos Migratorios Iberoamericanos |publisher=Gobierno de España|title=Amelia Abascal Gómez|url=http://pares.mcu.es/MovimientosMigratorios/viewer2Controller.form?accion=41&nid=2199&txt_id_imagen=1&txt_rotar=0&txt_contraste=0&txt_zoom=10&appOrigen=&cabecera=N&viewName=visorZoom}}</ref> She was primarily a self-taught artist.<ref name="HellerHeller2013" /> After arriving in Mexico in 1940<ref name="HellerHeller2013" /> at the age of 20, she took classes in chemistry, and applied it to her plastic arts, painting, ceramics, and designing.<ref name="HellerHeller2013" /> She was one of four artists to represent Mexico in 1968 at an exhibition in Argentina of Latin American painting. Following the Exhibition in Argentina, Abascal won acclaim with a solo exhibition at the Misrachi Art Gallery in Mexico City, Mexico in 1968.<ref name="HellerHeller2013" />
Abascal's work involves treating bronze and copper sheets with acid to create an eroded texture. She specializes in relief sculpture, but has also produced murals.<ref name="HellerHeller2013">{{cite encyclopedia |first1=Jules |last1=Heller|first2=Nancy G. |last2=Heller|encyclopedia=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|date=19 December 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-63882-5 |page=4|title=Abascal, Amelia (1923–)}}</ref>
== Works == Abascal's acid-treated copper plates were shown at the 1967 Galería de Arte Mexicano which was held in Mexico City, Mexico during the months of January and February.<ref name=":0">{{cite journal|date=January–March 1967|journal=Diálogos: Artes, Letras, Ciencias humanas|volume=3 |issue=2 #14|pages=22|jstor=27932381|publisher=El Colegio de México |title=Reviewed Work: ''Grupo de Once''}}</ref> The plates were described by a critic as "abstracted vigor on to copper plates."<ref name=":0" />
At the 1967 Galería de Arte Mexicano alongside Abascal's acid-treated copper plates were pieces from Carlos Merida who is credited{{by whom?|date=March 2026}} as being one of the first Latin artists to combine European and Latin styles in painting.<ref name=":0" />
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