发现的空间 Participating 艺术ist 纳塔莉亚Arbelaez
Visiting 艺术ist at the American Museum of Ceramic 艺术 (AMOCA) Pomona, California
缺席的段落, A collection of historical and cultural significant Colombian passages. 事件, 神话, 仪式, and people have been researched and collected to influence a body of work that comes from the absence of it being bestowed. Recreating and reliving through work allows for the reclaiming of the passages and continuing to guide as a contributor
艺术家声明
In my work, I am a storyteller. I am telling narratives about my Colombian family’s im迁移, the pre-Columbian South American presence, 还有我的美国锁钥匙, after school cartoon childhood. All of these stories work together to create a multicomponent self-portrait of what it is like to be a Mestizo Colombian-American hybrid. Mining tidbits from historical research, 家族性叙事, 卡通文化, I create surreal stories in clay much in the way Gabriel García Márquez did with words, autobiographically narrating history with its ups and downs, 它的幽默和眼泪.
Making my work is an act of revealing undervalued histories from Latin Americans, 印第安人, 和有色人种女性. These identities are lost through conquest, 迁移, 和时间, then gained through family, 文化与探索, and finally passed down through tradition, 保存, 基因记忆. I have found value in my histories and aim to help preserve my cultures by honoring them through my artwork.
I’ve embraced my use of craft and clay not only in my process but also in historical and cultural research. 在我的研究中丢失了, 征服了, 以及被忽视的社区, I have found that craft belongs in my pursuit. I relate to the role of the craftsperson, often linked to women’s work, 工人阶级, 文化传统. The material also plays an important role as I examine the history of my ancestral material. Like how Terra-cotta has been seen historically as a lesser material and Majolica glaze brought over from Europe and used as a surface to hide terra-cotta, metaphors I use describe colonization.
传记
纳塔莉亚Arbelaez is a Colombian American artist, 在迈阿密出生和长大, 佛罗里达, 给移民父母. Arbelaez’s artwork researches and amplifies Latin American, Amerindian, 和有色人种女性 histories. She explores and examines these changing identities influenced by conquest, 迁移, time, 遗传记忆, and 保存 of cultural familial heritage. She received a BFA from 佛罗里达 International University and her MFA from The Ohio State University, where she received an Enrichment Fellowship.
She completed a yearlong residency at the Clay 艺术 Center; Port Chester, 纽约, as a Barbara Rittenberg Fellow and was awarded the 2016 Inaugural 艺术axis Fellowship that funded a residency to the Watershed in Newcastle, 缅因州.
Her work has been exhibited nationally, 在博物馆里, 画廊, and has been included in various collections, such as the Everson Museum and The Frederik Meijer Gardens. She has been recognized by the 赌博平台al Council on Education for Ceramic 艺术s as a 2018 Emerging 艺术ist in the field. Natalia was a 2018-2019 resident artist at Harvard University where she researched pre-Columbian art and histories.
She was an artist in residence at the Museum of 艺术 and Design in 纽约 City, where she researched the work of historical and influential women ceramicists of color; she continues this research as a Visiting 艺术ist at AMOCA in Pomona, CA.