Blue Sky is pleased to announce 2022 Critical Mass Exhibition: "Next to Myself" by Liliana Guzmán
First Thursday Opening: Apr 6, 5 - 8 PM
In-Person Artist Talk: Sat, Apr 8, 1 PM
Liliana Guzmán’s exhibition Next to Myself combines painting and photography to reflect upon the formation of the self as an individual with social and ethnic components. Each piece is a culmination of layers; the photographic print, gouache paint, charcoal, and other mark-making objects. Photographic elements ground the body in a concrete physical space, while paint emphasizes what the mind perceives. Stemming from her background as a bicultural Colombian-American woman, this series addresses the sociocultural dualities of her exposure to different conceptions of the Latinx female body and how ethnicity, gender, and memory continuously build upon the many layers that make up who you are.
Liliana Guzmán (Colombian-American, b. 1993, she/her/hers) is a photographer and painter whose artwork entwines topics of the body, memory, sexuality, and the hidden landscapes of the self. In May of 2021 Liliana completed her MFA in Photography at the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University Bloomington.
Her photographic practice incorporates a wide range of techniques and mediums from film photography and alternative processes to digital photography, painting, and drawing. Through the recurring subject matter of hands, touch and gesture, Liliana’s artwork expresses touch as not only a formative and intimate experience but as one that establishes both internal and external connections within ourselves and those around us.
Liliana’s series Next to Myself first exhibited at the Amalie Rothschild Gallery in her birth town of Baltimore, Maryland in May of 2022. She is the recipient of the Blue Sky Gallery Award from Photolucida’s Critical Mass 2022 and was chosen in the 2021 Lenscratch Student Prize: 26 to Watch. Next to Myself will next travel to Candela Gallery in Richmond, Virginia in May of 2023.
Gallery Hours: Wed-Sat, 12-5 PM