Ángela Gurría

Why this artist matters now

Ángela Gurría Davó was a Mexican sculptor known for monumental abstracted forms in stone and bronze. Her eighteen-meter work Señal, commissioned for the 1968 Summer Olympics, exemplifies her approach to large-scale public sculpture. In 1974, she became the first woman elected to the Academia de Artes in Mexico. Working from Mexico City throughout her career, Gurría developed a distinctive language of geometric volumes and organic surfaces that addressed landscape and architectural space.