Margarita Moreno

SAIC SHOWS 2022 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS

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SAIC SHOWS 2022 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS

Master of Fine Arts in Studio, Printmedia

(1992) Colombian artist based in Chicago, who focuses on reflecting on the immediate environment: the place that human beings occupy in the universe. In the relationship between the human and the nonhuman, inhabiting becomes a direct correspondence between these two. This is why these thoughts have emerged in common places: a classroom, a park, a road, a bed, a room, the landscape seen through a window. Although drawing is her first language, her works are mix-media and include installation, sculpture, printmaking, weaving, and artist books. She is editor and co-founder of Tormenta Ediciones independent publishing house.

América, 2021, Jacquard weaving, 48 x 27 in.

Jacquard Weaving out of the artist’s book: El Cocodrilo de Humboldt (park)

Margarita Moreno - El Cocodrilo de Humboldt (park)

El Cocodrilo de Humboldt (park), 2021, Risograph printed artist’s book, 10 x 158 in.

A reticulating visual journey of associations—metaphors, puns, coincidences, and similarities converge to create a remarkably rich and complex non-linear narrative of place, cultural identity, and autobiography. Through her unique ability to thread disparate references into fantastical stories, Moreno has us consider kinship as not only connectivity through space, time, and analogy, but also kinship as a matter of mixing and recombination—conceptual and physical alike. Its accordion fold materializes the layering that Moreno achieves throughout the book, alive with vibrant color and thick with implications. Her Artist’s Reflection unpacks countless folds/sides of meaning that she pursues through the pages of her work. — Andrew Yang for Making Kin Exhibition

Margarita Moreno - Qué Dibujo Cuando No Dibujo (What I draw when I do not draw)

Qué Dibujo Cuando No Dibujo (What I draw when I do not draw), 2019, Risograph printed book, 10 x 8 in.

A is a project of Tormenta Ediciones, which consists of a series of publications in which various visual artists are invited to share parts of their creation and thought processes recorded in notebooks and sketchbooks. Cross-outs, single phrases, words, lists, strokes, anomalous or unfinished images, are the thought and the record of the passage of time on paper. They are all part of this conversation that remains in a gray area between what is decided to be shown as "work" and what remains hidden, but is part of the creation process; With this publication is an act of reconciliation and honesty, an intimate dialogue and that reminds that there is no such thing as "bad drawing", that only drawing exists. How do artists divide their work?

Hojas, 2020, Risograph printed installation, variable size

"Caladium" or "Caladio" are plants native from South America, they are tropical plants that often grow in the bushes, but most of the time we see them in gardens. They are striking for their colors, so much so that on some occasions, people who don’t know them, tend to confuse them with flowers. The idea for this project was born from a personal archive of photos of these leaves. This file was built out of a simple affinity for these plants with the only intention that existing in my garden and on my cell phone. Being away from Colombia and trying to appropriate the spaces, a garden began to grow, but also to print it. Materialize the idea of plants that transported me to any garden in Bucaramanga, Bogotá or somewhere in Colombia.

Mi peso en piedra, 2021, Installation with find objects, rocks, chalk and mixed media

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