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Isabel Pardo
In my work I address all painting as a collage. I consider my work a deliberate
collection of individual images, layers, and colors spliced together to entwine new
and old meanings for each symbol chosen. I draw upon my identity as a painter and
curator to engage physical space in a way which alters the viewer experience by
translating 2D space in my paintings into 3D installations. Implementing a
combination of traditional water media and oil painting with assemblage installations
including found objects, fabric, and construction materials, I explore how art historical
imagery and symbolism can be re-interpreted and recycled. By use of surrealist and
mythological imagery, I create my own form of alchemy in work that is transformative
in dimensionality and symbolism.
BIO
Born in 1999, Isabel Pardo is an artist and curator currently based in Baltimore. She
has a BFA in Painting, Art History, and Curatorial Studies from the Maryland Institute
College of Art. Curatorial projects include “This Is Not The End,” a virtual exhibit in
January 2021, MICA’s 2019 Exhibition Development Seminar’s ‘Historically Hysterical’
at Baltimore’s Peale Center; “Stigma” at the Alhamra Art Center in Bernardsville, NJ;
and “Epoch” at the Farmstead Arts Center in Basking Ridge, NJ. Inspired by
surrealism and alchemy, her studio work investigates the relationship between
classical and contemporary art through painting, collage, and abstraction. She strives
to create dynamic experiences for the viewer through multimedia paintings and
immersive assemblage installations.
Htet T. San is a Myanmar-born artist based in New York City. Htet works with mixed media art, photography, and installation. Her work explores ideas of identity, existence, memories, nostalgia, societal problems and human experience in a meditative and contemplative manner. Recently, she has been combining the mixed media concepts of installation, video projections, and sculptural/material mediums with traditional darkroom and digital imaging techniques. EducationHtet studied Art Studio with Concentration in Photography at University of Alabama-Huntsville and have a Master degree of Arts in Photography at Falmouth University, UK . She also occasionally takes classes at School of Visual Arts, Penumbra Foundation, Harvard University and various institutions for advanced research in photography and mixed media studies.
Metamorphosis
2021, Silver Gelatin Mordançage Prints
Metamorphosis is a project inspired by a poem I wrote in 2005, 16 years ago . I wrote my poems in my teenage years on a black book with silver ink.
Right now at this age, when I re-read my poems, I feel a sense of Reminiscence about who I was and who I have become.
It’s somewhat a contemplative and meditative process of re-exploring myself and the thoughts I had 16 years ago to my mid-30s right now, analyzing on the course of journey I have walked…..through space and time.