Sarabel Santos-Negrón

Organizaciones con obra

Galería de Arte Francisco Oller

Museo de Arte de Bayamón (MAB)

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Colección Reyes-Veray

Descripción del Artista

Sarabel Santos-Negrón is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and museum professional. Her work is informed by the experience and memory of the social-environmental and political-economic aspects reflected in the landscape of the Island of Puerto Rico. Using drawing and its expanded field as a starting point, she explores ways of referring to social values, natural resources, organic forms and atmospheric phenomena pertinent to her birth place. The work is created with found materials such as high-consumption industrial supplies, paper, sound, photographs, and mixed media, among others. Santos-Negrón earned an MFA in Studio Art from Maryland Institute College or Art, Baltimore, United States (2019); an MA in Museum Studies from Caribbean University, Puerto Rico (2012); a BFA in Painting and Art History from the University of Puerto Rico (2007); Art History studies from Fundación Ortega y Gasset, Toledo, Spain (2006). Her work has been exhibited in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Miami, New Jersey, New York, London, México, and Puerto Rico. She has participated in residency and research programs such as St. Mary’s Artist House Residency in Maryland (2018) and the Herbarium of the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan (2013 & 2014). She has developed a self-residency called Residencia del Río, an ongoing research project in El Paseo del Río Bayamón, Puerto Rico. She has received art awards from the Department of Education, the Department of Health, the Office of Youth Affairs, Cooperativa de Seguros Múltiples de Puerto Rico, and Pfizer Pharmaceutical Companies. In 2016, Maryland Institute College of Art awarded her a merit scholarship for graduate studies. She has worked as a visual arts professor, independent curator for special projects and is currently the director of the Museo de Arte de Bayamón in Puerto Rico. STATEMENT Landscape serves as a visual element for the definition of a place and its culture in a particular context. It has the evidence of human activity, but at the same time it may exemplifies needs and economic or social decadence. My art practice is informed by the experience and memory of the social-environmental and political-economic aspects reflected in the current landscape of the Island of Puerto Rico. I explore nature through field studies, expeditions and research. Using drawing and its expanded field as a starting point, I addresses ways of referring to social values, natural resources, organic forms and atmospheric phenomena pertinent to my birth place. The work is created with collected materials such as high-consumption industrial supplies, paper, wood, sound, photographs, and mixed media, among others. This practice frame my daily experiences in response to the economic and political circumstances that Puerto Rico is going through, which are a reflection to the social construction of the contemporary landscape.

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