Erick Sánchez is a Puerto Rican visual artist who is now showing his current series “Dangerous Land” at the William Bennett Gallery in Soho. As Art Fuse’s Oscar A. Laluyan states, “Being represented by this world- class gallery with collections of artworks by Chagall, Picasso, Dali, Warhol, etc. is nothing but short of a coup for this artist.” The William Bennett Gallery is located in the SoHo Art District at 65 Greene Street New York, New York (between Broome and Spring Streets).

Although critics describe Sanchez’ recent series as representations of an apocalyptic world, the artist says, “I’m a very upbeat and positive person. I’m trying to do something positive with my art. That’s why I’m working in this new series of apocalyptic landscapes. I give shape to an unstable landscape in danger of disappearing. This body of work is intended to trigger introspection and to create awareness about the consequences of global-warming, industrialization, globalization and other adverse effects of human behavior and the concomitant natural disasters, which extinguish life and nature.”

Erick Sánchez was born in May 1973 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He studied art at the San Juan Art Students League in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the New York Art Students League in New York, New York. He now lives and works in New York City.

See more paintings from the “Dangerous Lands” series at http://ericksanchez.net/dangerous-land/

For interviews, see http://ericksanchez.net/2012/news/interview-with-erick-sanchez-a-film-by-vincent-zambrano/ and http://artefuse.com/2012/02/10-questions-for-erick-sanchez/