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Grant Summary
Fellowship.
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Artist Statement
My art practice negotiates visibility, belonging, and the politics of location. Using installation, sculpture, performance, sound, and community-based actions, I examine historical narratives and spatial codes, both individually and collectively. By challenging understandings of geography, I work to mediate, subvert, and reveal the familiar or unnoticed to provoke new histories. As an artist examining the social anatomy of site and location, I deem critical the way my work can speak to issues of the politicized body and its experience of multiple selves, boundaries, and topographies.

  • Sounds for Liberation 2017, Maria Gaspar, Site Intervention. Sounds for Liberation was commissioned by Artspace for City-Wide Open Studios in New Haven, CT. Photo by Stephanie Anestis.

  • Sounds for Liberation 2017, Maria Gaspar, Site Intervention. Sounds for Liberation was commissioned by Artspace for City-Wide Open Studios in New Haven, CT. Courtesy of the artist.

  • Brown Brilliance Darkness Matter 2016, Maria Gaspar, Woven collage on digitally printed dye sub fabric, white stoneware, cone 6, oxidation, brown overglaze, vinyl, chrome. Courtesy of the artist.

  • Brown Brilliance Darkness Matter (Performance Still) 2016, Maria Gaspar, Woven collage on digitally printed dye sub fabric, white stoneware, cone 6, oxidation, brown overglaze, vinyl, chrome. Courtesy of the artist.