Mexico’s mystery and warmth have not only attracted tourists from around the world but runaways, defectors, artists, intellectuals and writers.
Many of these “Bohemians” arrived from north of the border during the disillusionment of the post-war years of the 1940s and 1950s.
Gloria Eliès exemplifies this migration. Born in Toronto in the first half of the 20th century, she was a university-educated sculptor who studied and worked in prestigious museums, galleries and art scenes in Ontario, Detroit, New York, Africa and Europe.
Eliès’ first profound Mexican experience occurred in the 1950s when she traveled by bus from New York to Oaxaca, where she became captivated by Mexican culture. On her return to Detroit, she began to master the hydro-stone technique, reproducing ancient and valuable Greek, Egyptian and Chinese-style art pieces.
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