Growing up along the California border with Mexico, Gibson was confronted by the harsh realities of migration to America at an early age. Staros has a forthcoming museum-wide solo exhibition at the Pitzer College.Įmploying references to the natural world while speaking to hardships, resilience, and freedom, Daniel Gibson 's paintings explore a lexicon of symbols that relate to his familial past and his identity as a Mexican-American. Staros was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship award in 2020. Staros’ work is featured in 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow, a survey of contemporary sculpture, authored by Kurt Beers and published by Thames & Hudson. The artist was included in the Craft Contemporary’s second clay biennial in Los Angeles. Staros has had solo exhibitions at Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, Lefebvre & Fils, Paris, and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles. 1983, Nashville, TN) received her BA from Brown, Providence, in 2006 and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, in 2011. Staros contributes her own symbology to a constellation of references from far-flung regions and eras, and entices her audiences to reexamine the role of historical objects.Ĭammie Staros (b. Her works remind us that historical narratives are told through visual languages as much as written ones. Staros’ fascination with classical antiquities lies both in the objects themselves, and with how those objects have come to represent an origin story of Western art history.
The artist anthropomorphizes her sculptures through references to armor and dress-often a gendered divide-as traditionally depicted on Greek figure vases.
Cammie Staros often mines images and artifacts from the Greco-Roman period that aestheticizes eroticism, violence, and victory.
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