Esperanza Mayobre
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Artwork
Symphony of Nothing
Colirio (Cleansing Vision Solution in english or something like that)
Another Day Another Dollar vs. La Lucha por La Locha
Immigrant of the Month (Part 2)
Santa Esperanza, Nuestra Señora de los Inmigrantes (Virgin of Hope, Our Mother of the Immigrants)
Esperanza
Mayobre
Artist's Statement
With my work I intend to address failed and idealistic utopias. Through narratives I invent stories that address or question problems that in the most part have no answers. The themes that I explore have been those that we generally do not want to talk about - sickness, death, birth, poverty, debt and immigration. Employing a variety of visual formats and creating works from disparate elements. I select the media and materials used on each piece in accordance to the idea that I am working with. I create fictive laboratory spaces. Insert the role of a hero, writing a role for myself in the work. Use light as a metaphor for birth. Drawings to create infinite lines. Candles to create lines of light. Give money away to talk about the third world countries debt. Dust to convert illegal to legal aliens. Sugar cubes to talk about death.
Bio/Resume
Esperanza Mayobre has participated in numerous group shows including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Bronx Museum, Smack Mellon, Printed Matter, the Jersey City Museum, MIT CAVS, Periférico Caracas, Museo de Arte de El Salvador, the Rich Gallery in London. Was part of the Skowhegan Talk Lectures Series at Artist Space. Upcoming exhibitions include a Solo Show at Galería Fernando Zubillaga, Caracas, Venezuela. Has been awarded the LMCC WorkSpace Residency, the NYU Visiting Artist Program, the Honorable Mention XI Salón CANTV, the Skowhegan 2005 Fellowship, the Artist in the Marketplace Fellowship at the Bronx Museum, the Rebecca R. Joslin and the Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Scholars Award. Nominated for the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant and the Art Matters Award. Her work has been reviewed at Bomb, The New York Times, Artnet, Arte al Dia and Artforum. Born in Caracas, Venezuela. Lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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