Pilar Aguero-Esparza

 Six Time Art Party Participant

Ferguson

Artist’s Website

www.pilaraguero.com

Artist’s Statement

In my work, I use familiar and commonplace objects and their meaning to investigate issues of labor and identity. I employ a range of mediums including drawing, printmaking, and sculpture and I explore specific personal relationships as subject matter for their richness in psychological complexity. Sometimes I begin with an image—a drawing or print that depicts a loved one or a particular place. At other times it is the material that propels the process and forms the foundation for new work—scraps of my daughter’s homework assignments from first grade, or heaps of leather scraps from my father’s shoe repair shop. The characteristics and physical presence of materials such as these, the materiality of objects, inspires me to analyze how things are made, consider who makes them and examine the physical or social conditions that are involved. In the process, I focus on the inequities of gender and class to create work that represents specific cultural and gender experiences as a way to acknowledge their value and power.