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OBJECT LOUNGE 2022 Abel Guzman, "Energy Vessel (No.2)"
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Abel Guzman, "Energy Vessel (No.2)"

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Crystallized woven wire and pipe cleaners with latex glaze + plastic cap, 9”x6”x6”, 2020.

SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED IN PRICE. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR AN ESTIMATE.

BIO

ABEL GUZMAN (b. 1988, Woodstock, IL) received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 and his BFA from Northern Illinois University in 2011. Abel has been included in exhibitions at 0-0LA and POVevoling in Los Angeles, CA; Inferno Sex Club in Brooklyn, NY; Siblings, Chicago Urban Arts Society, and Loyola University in Chicago, IL. Abel is currently an adjunct instructor in the Art Department at Cal State LA. Abel lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

STATEMENT

My studio is a mystic laboratory where I assume my role as Bruja-Scientist. Guided by personal narrative and the influence of my great-grandma’s Mexican brujeria, I employ a scientific process to conjure and access spiritual realms. Recognizing how my own body might momentarily contain or channel forces, I began creating woven vessels using wire and pipe cleaners. The objects then undergo a unique crystallization process I’ve developed incorporating sugar and latex. After an incubation period the vessels emerge as transformed artifacts, appearing simultaneously as germinating and decaying forms. I fashion plugs and caps for the containers so that the objects fully encapsulate the distinct vibrational energies or spirit bodies reflected in their designs. Through my meditative weaving and drawing practice, I intend to rejoin the spiritual realm with the material world, and the traditions of brujeria with new age mysticism and queer realities.

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Crystallized woven wire and pipe cleaners with latex glaze + plastic cap, 9”x6”x6”, 2020.

SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED IN PRICE. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR AN ESTIMATE.

BIO

ABEL GUZMAN (b. 1988, Woodstock, IL) received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 and his BFA from Northern Illinois University in 2011. Abel has been included in exhibitions at 0-0LA and POVevoling in Los Angeles, CA; Inferno Sex Club in Brooklyn, NY; Siblings, Chicago Urban Arts Society, and Loyola University in Chicago, IL. Abel is currently an adjunct instructor in the Art Department at Cal State LA. Abel lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

STATEMENT

My studio is a mystic laboratory where I assume my role as Bruja-Scientist. Guided by personal narrative and the influence of my great-grandma’s Mexican brujeria, I employ a scientific process to conjure and access spiritual realms. Recognizing how my own body might momentarily contain or channel forces, I began creating woven vessels using wire and pipe cleaners. The objects then undergo a unique crystallization process I’ve developed incorporating sugar and latex. After an incubation period the vessels emerge as transformed artifacts, appearing simultaneously as germinating and decaying forms. I fashion plugs and caps for the containers so that the objects fully encapsulate the distinct vibrational energies or spirit bodies reflected in their designs. Through my meditative weaving and drawing practice, I intend to rejoin the spiritual realm with the material world, and the traditions of brujeria with new age mysticism and queer realities.

Crystallized woven wire and pipe cleaners with latex glaze + plastic cap, 9”x6”x6”, 2020.

SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED IN PRICE. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR AN ESTIMATE.

BIO

ABEL GUZMAN (b. 1988, Woodstock, IL) received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 and his BFA from Northern Illinois University in 2011. Abel has been included in exhibitions at 0-0LA and POVevoling in Los Angeles, CA; Inferno Sex Club in Brooklyn, NY; Siblings, Chicago Urban Arts Society, and Loyola University in Chicago, IL. Abel is currently an adjunct instructor in the Art Department at Cal State LA. Abel lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

STATEMENT

My studio is a mystic laboratory where I assume my role as Bruja-Scientist. Guided by personal narrative and the influence of my great-grandma’s Mexican brujeria, I employ a scientific process to conjure and access spiritual realms. Recognizing how my own body might momentarily contain or channel forces, I began creating woven vessels using wire and pipe cleaners. The objects then undergo a unique crystallization process I’ve developed incorporating sugar and latex. After an incubation period the vessels emerge as transformed artifacts, appearing simultaneously as germinating and decaying forms. I fashion plugs and caps for the containers so that the objects fully encapsulate the distinct vibrational energies or spirit bodies reflected in their designs. Through my meditative weaving and drawing practice, I intend to rejoin the spiritual realm with the material world, and the traditions of brujeria with new age mysticism and queer realities.

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