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tender cage

Installation for the group show Funk ain’t Dead curated by Matt Goldberg at Root Division.

July 11 to August 11, 2018

Press Release, click here

Sarah Hotchkiss article for KQED, click here

can't do no pull ups

Sculptures crated for the group show Orium II at Aggregate Space Gallery.

June 2018

Press Release, click here

arañas

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Temporary Public Sculpture Installation for How Weird Street Fair 2018, The Art Alley, curated by Doug Rhodes.

Dancer Jacqui Ray

Press Release, click here.

(Photo 6 to 9)

Public Sculpture Installation at Albany Bulb, Richmond, CA. 2018

Collaboration With Melodi Blaze aka Snip Tease.

¡Aquí no hay moscas!

Solo Exhibition at Red Poppy Art House, curated by Elena Mancarelli.

March 19th- April 14th, 2018

Press Release, click here.

Photo Courtesy of Alex Molinari

Sign Transcript

When I was a child I used to spend my vacations in a small town in the Colombian Caribbean coast where my grandparents had a tiny apartment. Every day my grandparents got my cousins and I ready to go to the beach, and covered our bodies in sunblock and insect repellent, knowing that city kids have very fragile skin. The hot and humid weather and the salty smell of the port and fishery are engrained in my memory. Under the beating sun dozens of flies would come and swarm around us attracted to the sugar in our soda cans and the sweat in our skins. Despite my constant efforts to keep them off me, their conviction always outweighed mine. Whether I was playing in the sand, taking a nap, or having a snack, the constant buzz would disrupt my activities to the point that I was swinging my arms in the air and swatting at my face. It was really unnerving, and I always wondered why my grandfather could just sit there, calm and undisturbed. So one day I got the courage to ask him, “How come you aren’t bothered by the flies?” 

And he responded, “What flies? There are no flies here!” and continued gazing calmly at the horizon. Now, more than twenty years later and thousands of miles from home, I still wish I had the same capability to ignore unnerving and persistent botherances. The smart phones in our pockets are constantly buzzing like omnipresent flies. News about massacres, natural disasters, and imminent wars are combined with the FOMO and the need for likes, that causes anxiety and depression among a phone-addicted population. So I find myself in the same situation I was in years ago, trying to ignore something that is impossible to ignore, swatting aimlessly at the air, while repeating to my self as if it was a mantra “¡Aquí no hay moscas!

sex demon (prop commission)

Prop for Short Film by Alfredo Domador.

Silicon, Flexible Polyurethane Foam, Armature Wire.

2017

shelter/ refugio

Series of Ceramic Shelters, scale variable.

Ceramic, Glaze.

2017

another self-portrait

Series of Self-portraits, scale and medium variable.

The series has been part of the Group Show and Magazine Issue ‘Creep’ curated and published by DopeDopeDope at The Growlery, 2017. Press Release, click here.

It has also been shown as a Public Sculpture Installation for the How Weird Street Festival in 2017, at the Art Alley, curated by Doug Rhodes.

It has also been shown as a Public Sculpture Installation for NightLife at the California Academy of Sciences 2017, curated by Betty Bigas and Cate Van Dyke.

cabezas

Series of Ceramic Heads, scale variable.

Ceramic,Glaze.

2016

tot lot +

Installation created in collaboration with Evan Brounstein and Nolan Sheehan Jankowski for NoRoof Gallery.

2015

Photos by Kathryn Barulich.

 

 

 

cycles of self satisfacion

Sculpture Series, SFAI, 2015

 

29 steps, lick, repeat

Video Performance, SFAI, 2015

seeds of hypersexuality

Sculpture and Found Objects Installation, SFAI, 2014

persistent memory

Sculpture and Video Installation, SFAI, 2014

 

lenguabundo

Sculpture and Video Installation, SFAI, 2013

seccionados porque si

Series of hardwood sculptures, dimensions variable, 2013.

 

 

 

light dragonfly

2012

Temporary Public Sculpture Installation for Stereo Picnic Festival, Bogota,2012.

Collaboration with the artist Felipe Ruiz.

seccionados y a su servicio

Furniture and painting series for the group show Hipermercarte at Casa Cuadrada Gallery, Bogota, 2012 

 

 

the bourgeois living room

Solo show at La Residencia, Bogota, 2011.

Functional Sculpture, Mural, Video.

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sex demon (prop commission)

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cabezas

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seeds of hypersexuality

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seccionados porque si

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light dragonfly

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the bourgeois living room

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