Artists

Artist Bio

Sioux Trujillo received her Bachelors of Fine Art from College of Creative Studies. Additionally she has worked in the Detroit Art Community for over 11 years as an artist and administrator, and currently as the Associate Director of community+public arts:DETROIT at the College for Creative Studies. Trujillo has received awards and grants for her mixed media works from: Burren College of Art, College for Creative Studies (for study in Europe), and a Michigan Educational Grant. Her exhibition list includes: “Journeys” Muria Art Gallery, Kinvara Ireland, “The Strangers Perception” Burren Art Gallery, Ireland, “Fetes des Cabannes” Point Aven France, “Mini Print Exhibition” Tallergaleria Fort, Barcelona Spain, “CCS Selections: A Fine Art Invitational, Susanne Hillberry Gallery, “Scott Hocking Collaboration,” Ferndale, MI, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit “Visual Medicine,” Detroit Michigan, and the Pioneer Art Building “18th Annual Open House,” Detroit Michigan. www.siouxtrujillo.com

ArtX Project Description

Title: memory, loss and labor
Medium: Felt, thread
Year Created: 2011
Description: In my current body of work I’m working with industrial felt and thread because for me fabric holds a collective memory and I see it as a metaphor for the human condition in a post industrial city like Detroit. During the past 3 years I have worked with the concepts of hybridity of the artist in the 21st century and explored the labor of object making to develop my personal visual language. I focused on the deconstruction of memory and the meaning of loss, mourning and labor. Subtlety and Nuance are very important to my work because of the way I think the brain “sees” what is not there. My pieces are hand sewn allowing me to embed spiritual value in every piece. This allows the viewer to experience the seductive, low tech, haptic nature of my sculpture at a pre-industrial pace. This idea of labor is explored on multiple levels in my work: The labor of the artist creating the piece through repetition and obsessive construction, the labor that goes into the manufacturing of the raw materials, the materiality of the felt and the way it carries the human imprint and the sociological role of labor in a contemporary context I believe that viewing works of art should call for attention and patience, as they push the bodily act of consumption into the mental act of contemplation. Visual art does not unfold in history like a film or a book: It exists all at once. Having no rate of consumption, it throws the viewer back to her own rhythms (or lack thereof), while the act of viewing gives no outward sign of comparison.