In sculpture and site-dependent installations, I use the built environment as a framework to engage the relational and associative possibilities of site and material. Recent works take the wedge, a "simple machine," as form, reshaping past projects and unrealized ideas into "usefulness.” The wedge — used as shim in construction to make things “right" or fill a gap; or as a ramp, to multiply forces — here redoubles — as allegory and recyclery. Site-based works are analogous to this simple machine: An economy of procedures and materials produces a visibility of underlying histories through/in structure, foregrounding experience of the body, influence, ambition, and limit.
Discipline:
Visual Art – installation
Gabriela Salazar
Discipline:
Visual Art – installation
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009
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www.gabrielasalazar.com
Studios
Heinz
Gabriela Salazar worked in the Heinz studio.
The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…