Fruits of Labor: Sculptures and tapestries by women artists.
For our new online exhibition, we curated a selection of works by five outstanding artists, all represented by our gallery: Alex Hodge - Charo Oquet - Ana Seggiaro - Fanny Finkelman - Monica Madotto
Ana Seggiaro's work is based on the engravings of Alberto Dürer, Piranesi, and Albinus.
For the artist, European art is the paradigm from which she has built, from that training she has resignified her works, submitting them to her consideration and leaving an embroidered mark that indicates a different path from the one originally created.
Ana Seggiaro was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated from the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts with a degree in drawing and engraving.
Alex Hodge was always drawn to the arts and regularly channeled her creativity as a child, whether in watercolor classes or scrapbooking with her mother. She attended the University of Georgia and received her BFA in Ceramics in order to learn the ways of coaxing clay. While at UGA, Hodge had her first solo exhibition, Unsung Muses, in addition to her BFA show, Eyes That Bind. She graduated summa cum laude along with other honors, such as the Outstanding Undergraduate Award and Mary Rosenblatt Scholarship. Though she naturally finds a place in teaching, it is her studio work that is the driving force of her existence.
Charo Oquet is a Miami-based artist that uses painting, installation, performance, photography, and film, among other media, to investigate issues of displacement, identity, migration, gender, or sociopolitical and cultural issues and to document and reflect on issues of de-colonial aesthetics and the role of contemporary culture in a global reality. Her work is a subjective observation by someone who is concerned with her surroundings and the culture she left behind.
Fanny Finkelman’s sculptures are the result of a continuing exploration of the many materials that the artist has worked with over the years.
The three-dimensional artists' sculptures are full of transparency through the combination of various materials and objects that have been thrown away. Adding color to each piece is essential, but in the aesthetic context that controls the final form. This precious landscape is all the result of the exploration of small pieces of metal intervened with different acids that the artist finished with color pigments and gold dust.
With a passion for art and design, Monica Madotto’s work is deeply rooted in both the history and traditions of her Italian heritage, as well as her extensive travels and love for experimenting and exploring. Madotto was born in Venice. After living in Milan and London, she started working for Ralph Lauren Home in 2005 in Miami, Florida. She has worked on projects that span from hotels and public spaces to large residences in the United States and Latin America. In 2016, she started her own company and line where she collaborates with hotel chains as a design curator.
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