GABRIELA SALAZAR
Painting '09


Our built environment and the natural environment continually converse and act upon each other, each giving structure and new meanings to the other. My recent work takes its inspiration from the ways these forces make hybrid landscapes and spaces, and involves attempts to draw attention to the manifestations of their relationships. The work in this show in particular calls attention to the commonly overlooked by skewing its context; the seam of two planes of a room (where wall meets floor) and the texture of a much-used surface becomes a drawing of both a window in a room and a square mass of a modernist building in a street; the odd landscaping choices of Providence city planners (raised grass beds), scaled domestically, reference both the original and bed springs. In these pieces, "inside" and "outside" are understood as in a state of flux, one reflecting the other.