Bio

Teresa Escobar is a neon artist originally from Mexico, she studied Marketing and Advertising in Veracruz, Mexico. She moved to New York City on May 2012. In 2015 Escobar signed up for a neon workshop at “Brooklyn Glass” and she is been learning the glass bending and neon art since, there she found a way to express herself. She understands glass as a fragile, manageable, yet powerful and sensual medium.

Statement

When working, I seek to mirror my life experience and bring to light deep human emotions.  I predominantly work through the medium of neon light tubes; I see their fragility as a metaphorical representation of human sensitivity. I fire the glass in order to bend it and create simple shapes that carry a long history and baggage of meanings (such as body parts, the sun, flowers, among others).  The glass tubes are eventually filled up with gases, and the various color of the light reveal these shapes. It is an objective of mine to hold a sensitive conversation through this somewhat non-traditional medium, while keeping in mind its art historical relevance. 

Neon in the art context has largely been associated to male artists, and to advertisement in the public realm; I seek to converse with both of these contexts, while injecting, interweaving, and revealing a feminist narrative as a final result.   The concept of "enlightenment," as Plato describes when Socrates is seized by an idea in "The allegory of the cave,” is a narrative that is also present in my work, and I like to experience this "revelation" when I see my completed pieces finally light up.

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