Artist Statement
My art uses historical research, representations of homes and changing taste in textiles across social classes to explore how colonization and ideological identification affect the social systemic structures of power through the creation of female roles and the derogatory use of the term women’s work. My work weaves narrative layers, providing physical spaces in which viewers can reflect on our society’s structures of inequality and the creation of power in race, gender and class. The home becomes a place that sexualizes the body, especially those of women and men of color. I create multi-media woven installations that challenge viewers to look at familiar environments or objects in new ways. I am interested in how these spaces encourage traditional and non-traditional identifications processes based on the activities performed there. I animate the spaces with audio and video interviews with working middle-class members of my own socio-economic background. These interviews include personal stories that question the ongoing issues of economic and racial segregation and the media representation of American’s ethnically disadvantaged populations. These interviews are activated when the viewer enters the space. My multimedia installations focus on reframing the context of America’s prideful nationalism while critiquing identity and examining the structures of power in our domestic lives.
Bio:
Priscilla Dobler Dzul is an interdisciplinary artist, who creates multimedia installations focus on reframing the context of America’s prideful nationalism while critiquing identity and examining the structures of power in our domestic lives. She uses historical research, representations of homes and changing taste in textiles across social classes to explore how colonization and ideological identification affect the social systemic structures of power through the creation of female roles and the derogatory use of the term women’s work.
Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally most recently she has shown at A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; The Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA; Consulate of Mexico, Seattle, WA; The Northwest African American Museum, Seattle, WA; NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY; 125 Maiden Lane, NYC, NY; Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA; King Street Station, Seattle, Wa; The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA; Decentered Gallery, Puebla, Mexico; Method Gallery, Seattle, WA; TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, LA; Feast Art Gallery, Tacoma, WA: ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, WA and DAC Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
In addition, she was a 2014 recipient of Grants for Artist Projects from the Artist Trust, 2015 Bailey Award, 2016 Edwin T. Pratt Scholarship, 2017 Tacoma Artist Initiative Program Grantee and 2018 Salon Artist Publication Fellow. Since 2016 and currently, she completed five successful artist residencies on full fellowships. She received her MFA in Sculpture from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 2013.
