# Amelia Abascal

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**Amelia Abascal Gómez** (born 1920) was a Spanish-born Mexican painter, sculptor, and [ceramist](/source/Ceramist).

## Life and career

Abascal was born in [Madrid](/source/Madrid), Spain in 1920.[1] She was primarily a self-taught artist.[2] After arriving in Mexico in 1940[2] at the age of 20, she took classes in [chemistry](/source/Chemistry), and applied it to her [plastic arts](/source/Plastic_arts), painting, ceramics, and designing.[2] She was one of four artists to represent Mexico in 1968 at an exhibition in Argentina of [Latin American painting](/source/Latin_American_painters). Following the Exhibition in Argentina, Abascal won acclaim with a solo exhibition at the Misrachi Art Gallery in Mexico City, Mexico in 1968.[2]

Abascal's work involves treating [bronze](/source/Bronze) and copper sheets with [acid](/source/Acid) to create an [eroded](/source/Erosion) texture. She specializes in [relief sculpture](/source/Relief_sculpture), but has also produced [murals](/source/Mural).[2]

## 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.[3] The plates were described by a critic as "abstracted vigor on to copper plates."[3]

At the 1967 Galería de Arte Mexicano alongside Abascal's acid-treated copper plates were pieces from Carlos Merida who is credited[by whom?] as being one of the first Latin artists to combine European and Latin styles in painting.[3]

## References

1. ["Amelia Abascal Gómez"](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). *PARES. Portal de Archivos Españoles. Movimientos Migratorios Iberoamericanos*. Gobierno de España.

1. Heller, Jules & Heller, Nancy G. (19 December 2013). ["Abascal, Amelia (1923–)"](https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR11). *North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary*. Routledge. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.

1. "Reviewed Work: *Grupo de Once*". *Diálogos: Artes, Letras, Ciencias humanas*. **3** (2 #14): 22. El Colegio de México. January–March 1967. [JSTOR 27932381](https://www.jstor.org/stable/27932381)

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