SOUTHER SALAZAR
Born in California, USA. Lives and works in California, USA.
Salazar works in painting, drawing, sculpture, animation, and more, creating densely-layered universes that offer aspirational spaces for dreaming, thinking and being. Salazar’s aesthetic is a pleasing hybrid of classic children’s book illustrations and narratives, Modernist abstraction and the vernacular of contemporary illustration. Lacking irony or other types of distantiation, Salazar’s work bravely occupies a genuinely charming space and aesthetic that serves to put forth his propositions for ways of being in the world, together.
Souther Salazar received a BFA from the Art Center College of Art and Design in Pasadena, California. Salazar’s solo exhibitions include You Come Too, Jonathan Levine Gallery (NYC); Make It Real, GR2 (LA); and We Were Young and It Was Summer, GRNY (NYC). Recent group exhibitions include Juxtapoz Turns 18, Copro Gallery (LA), and Pattern Recognition, Subliminal Projects (LA).
Exhibitions:
MAR 2015 Attic Transmissions, Solo Exhibition
SEPT 2012 You and Me (and the Mouse in the Moon), Solo Exhibition
SELECTED ARTWORK
Souther Salazar
Edge of Remembering, 2015
25.5 x 37.5 in. Mixed media on wood panel.
Souther Salazar
Echoes of a Memory, 2015
25.5 x 37.5 in. Mixed media on wood panel.
Souther Salazar
Look Again, 2015
4.5 x 18.5 in. Mixed media on wood panel.
Souther Salazar
Pepe Does it Again, 2015
8 x 5 in. Watercolor, ink, and collage on paper.
Souther Salazar
Little Wild Ideas, 2015
8 x 5 in. Watercolor, ink, and collage on paper.
Souther Salazar
Safe Passage, 2015
8 x 5 in. Watercolor, ink, and collage on paper.
Souther Salazar
Compact Odyssey, 2015
8 x 5 in. Watercolor, ink, and collage on paper.