Magdalena Suarez Frimkess

Venezuelan
Venezuelan, b. 1929

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Magdelena Suarez was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1929. She was trained in painting at the School of Plastic Arts in Venezuela and later attended the Catholic University Santiago in Chile to study sculpture and painting. In 1963, she was offered a fellowship at the Clay Art Center in New York City where she met Michael Frimkess, whom she married and began a life-long collaboration. They established a studio together in Venice, California.