Margarita Azurdia

Margarita Azurdia (born April 17, 1931, in Antigua, Guatemala, died July 1, 1998, in Guatemala City, Guatemala), who also worked under the pseudonyms Margot Fanjul, Margarita Rita Rica Dinamita, and Anastasia Margarita, was a feminist Guatemalan sculptor, painter, poet, and performance artist.

Biography Margarita Azurdia studied at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, and at McGill University of Liberal Arts-College Margarita Burgeois, of San Francisco, California.

Azurdia's work reflects her feminist and anti-establishment views. The sculptures were carved by local artisans to her specifications, created an exhibit of scaled-down reproductions of two of Azurdia's "Geometric Abstractions" paintings.