Carolyn Salas
TBT, 2020
Sagaponack
Carolyn Salas was born in Hollywood, CA.
Salas is a sculptor who prefers imperfection, absurdity, and hand labor over the sterile perfection of mass-produced products. Her sculptures, installations, and works on paper are a comment on contemporary life. “In a culture obsessed with mass production and disposability, my work is a conduit of my opposition to this standard,” she explains. For example, she casts concrete, plaster, and fiberglass into abstract and representational forms, then mixes it with found objects, creates installations out of dyed, shredded canvas and gold chain, or transforms collage paper into goofy faces.
“My practice is an act of navigating experience, fiercely rifling through our collective visual world, determined to capture meaning out of the present moment. Through sculpture, installation, photography and collage my work is created with a degree of urgency; I am looking to find and capture the importance of a small story, made important through the shared discovery and meaning of investigation by connecting this moment to a much wider world. Utilizing abstraction with images of the natural world and with keen attention to materials and surfaces, my work offers a mediation of awareness through the imposed distance of reflection.”
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