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Artist Exhibitions:
Selected Solo and Group
Exhibitions:
2011
. Lecture and Solo Exhibition
at Spokane Falls Community
College, Spokane, WA
. Solo Exhibition at Bryant St
Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
. Solo Exhibition at Caffe
Museo at San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art, San Francisco,
CA
. AAF NYC Julie Nester
Gallery, New York City, NY
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Artist Galleries:
Toomey-Tourell 49 Geary 4th
Floor, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art Artists’ Gallery , San
Francisco, CA
Seattle Museum of Art
Gallery, Seattle, WA
Spur Projects, Portola Valley,
CA
Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
Julie Nester Gallery, Park
City, UT
Etra Fine Art, Miami, FL
Cancio Contemporary Miami /
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Artist Reviews:
American Art Collector, Alcove
Books, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
Hearts in San Francisco,
published by Hearts in San
Francisco, 2006
Enciclopedia Iberamericana de
Artistas Contemporáneos, 2004
Catalina Magazine, February
2004
Biennale Internazionale
Dell’Arte Contemporanea
Catalog, 2003
Art of Northern California,
Alcove Books, 2003
San Francisco Chronicle,
Datebook Section, ...
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Collections:
Over 60 corporate and
institutional collections in
the US and more than 900
collections around the
world....
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Silvia Poloto
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Artist statement on PROCESS:
Private Puzzles 2010 - 2011
I am drawn to the idea of abstraction, where meaning is not absolute but suggestive. Throughout my career I have worked in many different media: drawing, printmaking, painting, photography and sculpture to name a few. My photographic works, at the core, are “equivalents” of reality. That is to say, I create scenes or objects to be photographed, rather than illustrate existential situations. The process is an internal one inspired by personal experiences and imagination.
My latest body of work combines processes I have used in the past, expressing the visual vocabulary I have already learned in new contexts. I begin by building plexiglass boxes, filling some of them with resin and others with wax. I then make drawings, which I print on transparent film and build up in layers on top of each box. I repeat this process until I am satisfied with the result and, then, I photograph it.
Initially, I wanted to print very large-format photographs on watercolor paper. However, the high cost of printing such large pieces was prohibitive. A fellow photographer, and friend, offered the use of his own printer, but it was smaller than what I had had in mind. Seeing that I could not make prints larger than twenty-four inches wide, I decided to divide my large images into sections, to make smaller prints and mount them on separate panels to be either attached or simply displayed together.
Once I began this process, I realized I could use actual objects on my panels instead of photographs. In following the evolution of my own process, I was inspired to create this more complex and multi-dimensional work. Though the ideas behind it are just as accessible, they now require the viewer to piece together their various elements in order to draw their own meaningful conclusions.
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