Bound by Isaac Vazquez
SOLD
Isaac Vazquez
Bound, 2023
16.5 x 16.5 in.
Pigmented Sugar Dichromate on Linen
About the Work
This artwork is from a series titled Picturing Landscape Sweet. It is comprised of layered archival images developed through pigmented sugar dichromate, a photo process that I modified. The dichromate is mixed with the sugar solution and paint. This dichromate allows for the paint to become light sensitive so that an image can be exposed, the sugar binds the two.
About the Artist
Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) has black curly hair, brown skin, and a pair of eyes that question what has been declared as true. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, he is an interdisciplinary artist who seeks how we discern the past through form. Working within installation, sculpture, or within the picture plane itself his practice revolves around methods of image-making: histories molded from images and images that are cast out of histories; languages embedded within those processes and the very edges of their perception. Vazquez received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and his MFA from Northwestern University. He has received fellowships, grants, and has been a finalist for a number of programs, institutions, and organizations. He has exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery, Sullivan Galleries, The Block Museum of Art, The Terrain Biennial, and soon in various other spaces in and out of the U.S.