Sula Bermúdez-Silverman

Sula Fay Bermudez-Silverman (born 1993)[1] is an American multi-media artist based in Los Angeles.

Biography

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Sula Bermudez-Silverman was born in New York City in 1993 and raised in Los Angeles, California. In 2015, Bermudez-Silverman was an Honorary Artist-in-Residence at Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas.[2] Afterward she would study at the Yale University School of Art, earning her MFA in Sculpture in 2018.[3] Her first exhibition was at the University of Texas at Austin while she was still a student at Yale.[4] Currently, Bermudez-Silverman lives and works in Los Angeles.

Education

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Sula Bermudez-Silverman earned her BA in Studio Art from Bard College in 2015, and a MFA in Sculpture at Yale University School of Art in 2018. She also studied at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art and Design in London in 2013.[5]

Artworks

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Her artworks are mostly sculptures of various mediums, including sugar, found objects, and hair and has dabbled in video art.[6] Her art primarily focuses on gender, pop culture, and post-colonialism [7] Silverman deliberately leaves her artwork undescribed as for the viewer to find out what parts resonate with their identity.[8] Many of her currently displayed works deal with economic, racial, religious, and gender dynamics in abstraction.

The following are examples of Sula Bermudez-Silverman's artworks:

  • Tactile Illusions: Fabric book with printed imagery and tactile braille describing the image's texture.
  • Duck Test: Video art depicting the braiding and burning of Silverman's hair.
  • Artist's Hair and Wood: A wheel of Silverman's hair.[9]
  • Table for Eleggua, Table for Elijah: Various found and made items displayed accompanied by video art.
  • Portraits of family members using DNA testing results: Fabric pie charts depicting the genetic "portrait" of the individual.
  • Red Hook, New York: A transparent quilt containing various found items.
  • Blue Prints: Fabric book with printed imagery.
  • Dollhouses in the medium sugar, glass, wood, resin, and metal.[10]
  • Hair Embroideries: Fabrics with images sewn in from Silverman's hair.[11]
  • Carrefour Pietà / Be My Victim: wool and acrylic yarn.
  • The Monster’s Bride (She’s Alive!): wool and viscose yarn.
  • Porthole 3 (Chemical X): Himalayan sea salt, isomalt sugar, glass found object.
  • Satan Arousing the Rebel Angels: isomalt sugar, epoxy resin, puffer fish specimen, cast glass, carpenter bees.

Exhibitions

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Solo exhibitions
Exhibition Organization Location Date
Sutures University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas, United States November 2, 2018 - December 7, 2018
Neither Fish, Flesh, nor Fowl California African American Museum Los Angeles, California, United States February 28, 2020 - May 2, 2021[12]
Sighs and Leers and Crocodile Tears Murmurs Los Angeles, California, United States March 7, 2021 — April 10, 2021[13]

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References

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  1. ^ "Technotihuacan". Queer Cultural Center. 2018-03-10. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
  2. ^ "Lecture with Visiting Artists Yanira Collado, Carlos Sandoval De Leon, and Onajide Shabaka". Project Row Houses. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  3. ^ Seward, Mahoro (2021-03-08). "Sinéad O'Dwyer offers empowered, body-diverse luxury for AW21". i-D. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  4. ^ a b "Sula Bermudez-Silverman: Sutures - Visual Arts Center - The University of Texas at Austin". Visual Arts Center - Department of Art and Art History - University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  5. ^ "EXHIBITION: Sula Bermudez-Silverman: Sutures - Texas Today: UT Events & Announcements Calendar". Texas Today: UT Events & Announcements Calendar. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  6. ^ Dambrot, Shana Nys (March 16, 2020). "Meet an Artist: Sula Bermudez-Silverman". LA Weekly.
  7. ^ Conner, Allison (March 29, 2021). "Tracing the Pop Culture Zombie Myth to Haitian Folklore". Hyperallergic.
  8. ^ Sula Bermudez-Silverman Interview | Art in Color, retrieved 2021-03-12
  9. ^ Wheeler, Andre-Naquian (June 18, 2018). "Sula Bermudez-Silverman Turns Her Hair Into Embroidered Works of Art". Vice.
  10. ^ Agustsson, Sola (March 31, 2021). "Artists at Work: Sula Bermudez-Silverman". East of Borneo.
  11. ^ Salles, Claire (2020-12-29). "Mots en cheveux. Hériter de l'histoire genrée de la broderie à travers l'écriture". Cahiers ERTA (in French) (24): 9–27. ISSN 2353-8953.
  12. ^ Miranda, Carolina (2020-04-04). "Essential Arts: Art and pandemic — how artists and institutions are faring". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  13. ^ Bermudez-Silverman, Sula (March 2021). "Sighs and Leers and Crocodile Tears - Artist Statement" (PDF). Murmurs.
  14. ^ "CAAM | Cancelled—Docent-Led Tour: Sula Bermudez-Silverman - Neither Fish, Flesh, nor Fowl". caamuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
  15. ^ "Past Exhibition: Sighs and Leers and Crocodile Tears — Murmurs". murmurs.la. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
  16. ^ "Community calendar". KTLA. 2014-08-21. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
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