Florencia Escudero

Interviews by Brainard Carey

Florencia Escudero's sculptures include soft and handmade components printed with digitally-rendered imagery. Feminist theory, cyber culture, and an embrace of various techniques such as digital photo collage, hand sewing, and silk-screening place each sculpture in the realm of both the machine-made and the handmade. As the artist notes, "When making these pieces I am thinking about the history of feminist art that looks at the objectification of women's bodies. I want to flip the expectation and look at how objects become human." Escudero received an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale University School of Art in 2012. Her works have been exhibited at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY, and Petzel Gallery, New York, NY, among other venues. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Florencia Escudero Snakestone, 2024 Digitally printed and silkscreened satin and spandex hand-sewn over upholstery foam, resin, ceramic, colored sand, epoxy, cotton piping, and wood base 33 x 31 x 23 inches Courtesy of the Artist and Kristen Lorello, NY. Florencia Escudero Digital Medusa, 2024 Resin with abalone, starfish, epoxy, shells, 3D-printed plastic, temporary tattoo paper, eva foam, steel 22 x 24 x 15 inches Courtesy of the Artist and Kristen Lorello, NY Florencia Escudero Echo, 2022 Digitally printed satin and spandex hand-sewn over upholstery foam, resin cast with watches, chains, and glitter, steel rod, chains 32 x 31 x 3 inches Courtesy of the Artist and Kristen Lorello, NY.