ABOUT THE ARTIST

Teresa Escobar is a neon artist originally from Mexico. She moved to New York in 2012. She sees the fragility of neon light tubes as a metaphorical representation of human sensitivity. She fires the glass in order to bend it and create simple shapes that carry a long history and baggage of meanings. Like her female breasts that represent women and express the variety, uniqueness and beauty of them all. The glass tubes are eventually filled up with gases, and the various colors of the light reveal these shapes.

“It is an objective of mine to hold a sensitive conversation through this somewhat untraditional medium while keeping in mind its art-historical relevance.  Neon in the art context has largely been associated to male artists, and to advertisements 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 seised 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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