Marisol

Why this artist matters now

Marisol Escobar, known as Marisol, created large-scale wooden sculptures and carved figures that merged folk art traditions with pop sensibility and deadpan humor. A Venezuelan-American artist who worked primarily in New York, she assembled her sculptures from wood blocks, plaster casts, and found objects, often incorporating her own face or body into the compositions. Her work gained prominence in the 1960s before a decades-long absence from public view; a major retrospective at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in the early 2000s reestablished her significance in postwar sculptural practice.

Source: Marian Goodman · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago