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Stephanie Germosen Salazar
a surface to hold

February 23 - March 16, 2024

Sculpture
Curated by Margery Albertini

Biography

“a surface to hold” introduces a world where tactile materials give voice to the silence of forgotten narratives, where the past converges with the future, and where magical realism emerges as a guiding force. A significant aspect of this exhibition is the exploration of the ways in which fantasy seamlessly infiltrates our everyday reality. For those living in the Caribbean and Latin American diaspora, this fusion of the magical and the mundane is a deeply ingrained strategy for survival. By employing the rich tapestry of magical realism, the work constructs an atmosphere of defamiliarization, wherein materials, forms, and ideas merge and flow, transcending conventional boundaries.

Biography

Stephanie Germosen Salazar is currently based out of Richmond, VA where she is an MFA Candidate in the Sculpture + Extended Media Program at Virginia Commonwealth University. She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited at Zakaib and Sullivan Galleries, both in Chicago, IL, at Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning in Queens, NY, and Bass & Reiner in San Francisco, CA. She has been an artist in residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and Smack Mellon Studio Program. Germosen - Salazar was named a 2023-24 Viriginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellow and a 2019-20 New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellow.

Website: stephaniegermosen.com
Instagram: @imnotstephanie

“play with me softly,” Wood from a childhood dresser, miscellaneous paper I keep close to me, aluminum, tangerine orange rock, ceramic, seat, image transfer on leather chess board, osb, iron, plastic, tv dinner tray. Dimensions varied, 2023.

 
"a ghost is a," Chewed gum, osb wood, bed jack, tripod, linoleum tiles, ceramic, urethane plastic, sand, seashells, gold leaf mango pits, styrofoam, tennis balls, silver gelatin prints, plaster, paper, cuaba soap, burlap, resin, seat, burlap. Dimensi

"a ghost is a," Chewed gum, osb wood, bed jack, tripod, linoleum tiles, ceramic, urethane plastic, sand, seashells, gold leaf mango pits, styrofoam, tennis balls, silver gelatin prints, plaster, paper, cuaba soap, burlap, resin, seat, burlap. Dimensions varied, 2023

"a ghost is a," Chewed gum, osb wood, bed jack, tripod, linoleum tiles, ceramic, urethane plastic, sand, seashells, gold leaf mango pits, styrofoam, tennis balls, silver gelatin prints, plaster, paper, cuaba soap, burlap, resin, seat, burlap. Dimensi

"a ghost is a," Chewed gum, osb wood, bed jack, tripod, linoleum tiles, ceramic, urethane plastic, sand, seashells, gold leaf mango pits, styrofoam, tennis balls, silver gelatin prints, plaster, paper, cuaba soap, burlap, resin, seat, burlap. Dimensions varied, 2023

"a ghost is a," Chewed gum, osb wood, bed jack, tripod, linoleum tiles, ceramic, urethane plastic, sand, seashells, gold leaf mango pits, styrofoam, tennis balls, silver gelatin prints, plaster, paper, cuaba soap, burlap, resin, seat, burlap. Dimensi

"a ghost is a," Chewed gum, osb wood, bed jack, tripod, linoleum tiles, ceramic, urethane plastic, sand, seashells, gold leaf mango pits, styrofoam, tennis balls, silver gelatin prints, plaster, paper, cuaba soap, burlap, resin, seat, burlap. Dimensions varied, 2023

“play with me softly,” Wood from a childhood dresser, miscellaneous paper I keep close to me, aluminum, tangerine orange rock, ceramic, seat, image transfer on leather chess board, osb, iron, plastic, tv dinner tray. Dimensions varied, 2023.

“play with me softly,” Wood from a childhood dresser, miscellaneous paper I keep close to me, aluminum, tangerine orange rock, ceramic, seat, image transfer on leather chess board, osb, iron, plastic, tv dinner tray. Dimensions varied, 2023.

“play with me softly,” Wood from a childhood dresser, miscellaneous paper I keep close to me, aluminum, tangerine orange rock, ceramic, seat, image transfer on leather chess board, osb, iron, plastic, tv dinner tray. Dimensions varied, 2023.

“play with me softly,” Wood from a childhood dresser, miscellaneous paper I keep close to me, aluminum, tangerine orange rock, ceramic, seat, image transfer on leather chess board, osb, iron, plastic, tv dinner tray. Dimensions varied, 2023.