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Maya Escobar

Conceptual Identity Artist

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Taking it to Tumblr

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Prompted by a Google Alert and a recommendation from my friend Carrie Ferguson Weir, I decided it was time for me to set up shop on Tumblr.below are some of my favorite Tumbls:Beauty Girls via www.andriabibiloni.comAndria MoralesIn addition to my own Tumblr blog, I also started a Frida Kahlo FANATIC blog Obsessed with Frida Kahlo*.some of my Frida Tumbls: Reflex Art Gallery - Yasumasa MorimuraYasumasa Morimura ldiggity:  frida. (graphite matchbook drawing) jason d’aquino on view now @ the last rites gallery Jason D’Aquino*Obsessed with Frida Kahlo, is a project I initiated in 2007 with Mexican artist Brenda Hernandez. Watch the video below to find out more:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxqo7aJtD0U]

tags: Andria Morales, Brenda Hernandez, Carrie Ferguson Weir, Frida Kahlo, grid, Internet Art, Jason D’Aquino, microblogging, Obsessed with Frida Kahlo, Tumblr, Yasumasa Morimura
categories: Art, artista, blogging, curatorial, Maya Escobar, social media
Monday 09.20.10
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morning judge of character

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tags: Big Lebowski, commentary, comments, grid, Jewish Life in America, social media, TweetPhoto
categories: culture, intertextual, Judaism, Maya Escobar, Pop Culture, YouTube
Thursday 09.24.09
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breaking down the elephant

Ruth at the writing center (who somehow amazingly manages my artistic craziness and dyslexia) helped me come up with this metaphor for my work, based on the story of the elephant and the blind men.I think it might become my artist statement.

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Some people think that I am the true representation of the elephant.It is true I am an elephant, but not the only elephant.I try to break up the conception of being the only elephant.Some people see a small portion of my work and think it is the whole- the representative elephant.Others understand that each piece connects to another piece and that individually they are only fragments.When breaking the elephant up into pieces, information slips in through the cracks.People also respond to this new information- creating a bigger more amorphous elephant.

The amorphous elephant is broken up again and again, so that it is relevant to new individuals new experiences...

project mapa) accionesplasticas.comb) mayatalk.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/obsessed-with-frida-kahlo/c) thewayismadebywalking.com/d) www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5sFV2xmpfAe) berlinseruv.comf) www.youtube.com/watch?v=359HwupsY1sg) mayaescobar.com

tags: Acciones Plásticas, artist, artist statement, arts, critical pedagogy, cultural identity, education, grid, Maya Escobar, MFA, postmodernism, stereotyping, thesis, Washington University in St- Louis, wustl
categories: Art, art-education, contmporary art, identity, multicultural art, Performance, Performance Text, Stereotype
Thursday 04.02.09
Posted by maya escobar