About Sylvia.
She lives and works in Delray Beach, Florida. She has studied at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Venezuela, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston and at the Art Student League of New York.
She has exhibited at The Coral Springs Museum of Art, at The Boca Raton Museum, and at JAM at MAM at the Miami Art Museum. She has had solo exhibitions at The Coral Springs Museum of Art, Marina Kessler Gallery (Miami Design District, Florida) Fiscalia General de la República (Caracas, Venezuela), Venezuelan Embassy (Washington, D.C and Paris, France) Chez Mathilde Pavillion (Oranjestad, Aruba) and Venezuelan Consulate (Miami, Florida). She has participated in International Art Fairs, such as The Affordable Art Fair, in New York, The Toronto Art Fair, in Canada, Feria Internacional del Arte (FIA) in Caracas, in Le Salon de Mai and Le Salon de Grands et Jeunes d’aujord’ hui in Paris, Salon Aragua, in Venezuela, Art Miami, Merrill Lynch ARTEAMERICAS and Red Dot Art Fair, in Miami, Florida.
Her works are represented in major museums and art institutions, such as Jacobo Borges Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art “Sofia Imber” (Caracas, Venezuela), Fiscalia General de la República (Caracas, Venezuela), Universidad Metropolitana (Caracas, Venezuela), Venezuelan Embassy (Washington, D.C) and J.F Kennedy Library (Miami, Florida).
Artist Statement.
She has explored many subjects but none have been quite as simplistic and complex as life.
Life is an infinite timeline as well as a collage.
Using her works as a metaphor, allows her to explore various facets of life.
She has been working with the red sphere for more than two decades, as an energetic symbol, as a metaphor of life and as a sign of what is alive and in continuous transformation.
The red sphere is the metaphor of the journey of man through life; it is life itself, the nucleus and origin of all being.
Her work takes undistinguished materials and gives them properties that exceed their intrinsic qualities.
She emphasizes their rude industrial power, trying to underline the predominance of what is industrial in a society that values the consumption, the artificial, and the imitations.
She is fascinated by the friction that is created between the objects and its shadows, between what’s fake and what’s real, as a metaphor for the tense situations in life.
In many different mediums and use of space, she explores the facets that make up life internally, externally, and in surrounding spaces.
Her work is a crafted and elaborate study of life, in its fascinating simplicity and in its beautiful complexity.
In the Studio.
