Sending my love, J + A
January 2 - January 31, 2021
Jorge Ariel Escobar & Annmarie Sugilo
Jorge Ariel Escobar
Annmarie Sugilo
Bios:
Jorge Ariel Escobar
Richmond VA
Jorge Ariel Escobar is a photo-based interdisciplinary artist who is currently pursuing his MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is an Advanced Opportunity Fellow. His work explores themes of immigrant identity, otherness, and familial connections. Jorge has exhibited throughout the US including group exhibitions at RI Center for Photographic Arts (Providence, RI) and Ground Floor Gallery (Brooklyn, NY). As a solo artist, he has exhibited with The Gallery at Laughing Dog (Harrisonburg, VA), VALET Gallery (Richmond, VA), and Art Works’ Jane Sandelin Gallery (Richmond, VA). He has been an Artist-in-Residence at AZULE, a recipient of the Penland School of Craft Windgate Scholarship, and a recipient of the James Madison University’s CVPA Research Grant as an undergraduate student.
Annmarie Sugilo
Cleveland Ohio
Annmarie Suglio currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin and is an MFA candidate in Studio Art at University Of Wisconsin. She is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art earning her Bachelor in Fine Arts degrees in Fiber + Material Studies and Sculpture in 2015. After graduation, Suglio took on many curatorial roles: from 2015-2018 she was curator of The Sunroom, exhibiting artists who explore and experiment in a domestic space, and from 2015-2019 was Gallery Director of Praxis Fiber Workshop, a non-profit organization designed to revitalize the field of Fiber Art in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2018, Annmarie was Administrative Assistant for FRONT International, Cleveland's first art triennial in Cleveland. She has shown work mostly in Cleveland, Ohio at Zygote Press Inc., Forum Artspace at the 78th Studios, and at the Reinberger Gallery.
About the Show
Jorge Ariel Escobar and Annmarie Suglio are 1st year MFA Candidates in Photography at UW-Madison. Both share expanded practices through image-making, including a passion for weaving. Using different weaving methods, these works are woven on a floor loom, on a frame, and by a jacquard loom. Jorge uses weaving to reconnect to his Latin American heritage, paying homage to his birth country of Paraguay and to his immigrant identity in America. Annmarie uses the tradition of weaving as visual storytelling. In woven structures, a visual space is constructed to experience an important place or moment, once again. With this exhibition, we’re sending our love to our past selves, to our heritage, and to the places we long for.