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CAROLINA SARDI
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In a recent series she uses polished gold, copper, or chrome surfaces, in which the viewers can find their own reflections, thereby introducing a variety of added readings.
Sardi was born in Argentina and was educated at the National University of La Plata, in Argentina, then studied with the sculptor Ennio Iommi. Sardi has been commissioned for several site-specific large scale installations in many of this city’s acclaimed buildings and private homes, including most recently the newly finished Apogee Hollywood condominiums and the Icon Bay project.
She has also been included in the prestigious Heavy Metal exhibition at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. She plays with the effects of volume, light and shadow, adding to the work another layer of possibilities.
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MABEL POBLET (Cuban, 1986)
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...a black and white degradation from left to right. One of the main goals with this work is to decontextualize images from their milieu, as well as to invite observers to guess at or reinvent the news these images might be referring to. It makes one think about how the media manipulates images and the news, according to their own interests, irrelevant of what country they are from.
Mabel Poblet was born in Cienfuegos in 1986. She graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts “San Alejandro” and the University of Art (Instituto Superior de Arte, ISA). She apprenticed in a workshop started by Cuban installation artist Tania Bruguera, an opportunity that brought her together with many of the best known Cuban artists of the day.
Poblet’s works are a close examination of her own life – who she is as a Latina growing up in Castro’s Cuba, where she came from, her relationship to the Cuban culture overall. Mabel Poblet’s work can be seen in public collections such as the Contemporary Art Museum of Tampa (FL), the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation in Miami (FL) and the Gilbert Brownstone Foundation in France. She represented Cuba at the Cuban Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale.
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CAROLYN MARA (American, 1979)
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Her large-scale abstract paintings are created from a series of throws and strokes made with a mop.
Carolyn Mara was born in 1979 in Houston, Texas, and was raised in an Italian family. She began her photographic interests during her years at the Sacred Heart School in Houston. She earned her BSc in Psychology with a minor in photography from Southern Methodist University (2002) and an MFA in Photography, video, and related media from the school of visual arts in New York City (2006).
She currently sells her mop paintings and is represented by Pan American Art Projects in Miami. Carolyn has exhibited in multiple gallery spaces in the United States, at PhotoFest Houston, been published in PDN magazine, Saplings Magazine, and B&T Australia.
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3 America(n)s: Carolina Sardi, Mabel Poblet and Carolyn Mara
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