Gabriela Salazar
Primary Medium: Drawing
Other media: Installation, Sculpture, Printmaking, Wall drawing
Gabriela Salazar Art
Email: gsalazar (at) g (dot) risd (dot) edu
Website: http://www.gabrielasalazar.com
Artist Statement
My work quietly draws attention to the way things are put together, and highlights the spaces “in between” and in flux, which are unseen or under-utilized as sites for contemplation, much less art. In sculptures and installations, I have been exploring simple ways to tweak or alter the built environment. By inversion, addition to, removal from, or reconfiguration of existing elements in a room—the floor, corners, walls—I expose the expectations we have for the built environment and the ways in which human-made spaces and structures interact with forces of nature like the shifting of land, the pressures of gravity, the passing and layering of time. From that theme, in these drawings, the interplay between nature and human engineering, symbolized by acts of “chance” and predetermined or superimposed systems, geometries and grids, ultimately lead to simultaneously whimsical, threatening, and mysterious abstractions.
Other media: Installation, Sculpture, Printmaking, Wall drawing
Gabriela Salazar Art
Email: gsalazar (at) g (dot) risd (dot) edu
Website: http://www.gabrielasalazar.com
Artist Statement
My work quietly draws attention to the way things are put together, and highlights the spaces “in between” and in flux, which are unseen or under-utilized as sites for contemplation, much less art. In sculptures and installations, I have been exploring simple ways to tweak or alter the built environment. By inversion, addition to, removal from, or reconfiguration of existing elements in a room—the floor, corners, walls—I expose the expectations we have for the built environment and the ways in which human-made spaces and structures interact with forces of nature like the shifting of land, the pressures of gravity, the passing and layering of time. From that theme, in these drawings, the interplay between nature and human engineering, symbolized by acts of “chance” and predetermined or superimposed systems, geometries and grids, ultimately lead to simultaneously whimsical, threatening, and mysterious abstractions.
Selected Works
|  Hole in the Wall (Screen) - 2011 - gel pen, graphite on paper - 15" x 10 1/4" - $150.00  Hole in the ground (with traffic cone) - 2011 - gel pen, graphite, glue on paper - 19" x 16" - $250.00  Hazard - 2010 - highlighter and graphite on paper - 8" x 10" - $60.00  Osculation - 2011 - gel pen, graphite on paper - 15" x 11" - $150.00  Untitled - 2011 - Spray paint and graphite on paper - 7" x 11" - $85.00 |
Artist Bio
(b. New York, NY 1981)
Education
2009 M.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design
2003 B.A. Yale University
Exhibition Record
2009
East|West Artist Exchange, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Geography of Imagination, Adam House Gallery, New York, NY
Curated by Phong Bui, Publisher of The Brooklyn Rail
Interactive, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence RI
Lather, Rinse, Repeat (as Desired), Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
Dialogue Bauhaus, Chace Center, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2008
A Varied Terrain, Chace Center, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Graduate Painting Departmental Exhibition, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
Boston Young Contemporaries, Gallery 808, Boston, MA
Juried by Jackie Gendel, Tom McGrath, and Roger White.
2006
Greenwich Academy Visual Arts Faculty Show, Luchsinger Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Creative Works Open Studios, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2005 – 2009
Artspace Flatfiles, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2004
Process to Present: Recent Work 2000-2003 (solo), Anne Reid Gallery, Princeton, NJ
2003
Undergraduate Thesis Work, Green Hall Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2002
Still Wet: Recent work by Molly Christian, Anne Weber, and Gabriela Salazar, Maya's Room, New Haven, CT
Photographs by Gabriela Salazar, Molly Christian, and Elina Fessi, Maya's Room, New Haven, CT
Norfolk School of Art End-of-Summer Show, Yale Norfolk School of Art Gallery, Norfolk, CT
Grants, Fellowships and Awards
2009
MacDowell Colony Fellowship
Award of Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design
2008
Award of Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design
Juried by Ian Berry, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator at The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College.
RISD Fellowship
2007
RISD Fellowship
2006
Vermont Studio Center Residency
2005
Keegan Art Fellowship, Greenwich Academy
2003
Berkeley College Arts Prize, Yale University
2002
Ellen Batell Stoekel Fellowship, Yale Summer School of Art
Richter Fellowship for Summer Travel and Research
Paul Mellon Grant for Senior Research, Yale University
2000 – 2003
Sudler Fund for the Creative and Performing Arts, Yale University
Publications
2006
Lostwriters.net
Art Critic
"Aerosol and Glass: Graffiti and Dale Chihuly, Together at Last," September 19. "Spanish Art is Sexy, Part 3: Felix Gonzalez-Torres Makes a Cameo in El Barrio,” June 5. "Spanish Art is Sexy, Part 2: Sorolla and The Hispanic Society," May 18. "Spanish Art is Sexy, Part 1: An aged Goya keeps it up at the Frick," April 30. "The Art of Existing from A-Z," April 10.
1999 – 2002
Yale Daily News Magazine
Art and Design Editor 2000 – 2002
Staff (Layout, Art, and Photography) 1999 – 2000
2001 – 2002
Berkeley-Saybrook College Literary Magazine (Yale University)
2002
Yale Literary Magazine