estelle maisonett
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Estelle Maisonett is a Mexican Puerto-Rican mixed-media interdisciplinary artist born and raised in the Bronx, New York. Her work is an investigation of how personal relationships to objects and materials inform preconceived notions of identity, economic status, accessibility, race, sexual orientation, and gender.
Maisonett received her BFA from SUNY Purchase College in 2013, was a 2021 New Wave Artist in Residence, 2018 Artist in the MarketPlace Fellow at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and a 2018 BronxArtSpace Summer Artist in Residence. Estelle has exhibited with Chashama, Silent Barn, Field Projects, Bronx Art Space, El Barrio ArtSpace at PS109, Latchkey Gallery, Longwood art Gallery, The Andrew Freedman Home, Hostos College, The School of Visual Arts and SUNY Purchase College amongst others.
WORKS
Kobe, 2021
Mixed media on panel
44.5 x 30 x 1 in
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Estelle Maisonett is a mixed-media interdisciplinary artist that uses found objects, photography, and sourced clothing to create life size collages that document her experience living in NYC.
The interior and exterior spaces she builds are collages of photographs, patterns, and archived found objects she has collected. Creating figures void of the human body, she explores how the assumed figures' relationship to consumer products, location, and material inform identity.
Photographs and faux finishes of materials such as brick, concrete, wood or patterned fabric, allow Estelle to investigate meaning and value within materiality. Juxtaposing objects from reality with gestural drawings or paintings, she explores how the relationship between object and environment informs perception of a figure or alludes to prescribed identity. A social and interactive process, her interdisciplinary assemblages are a form of self and communal reflection that question how individuals create preconceived notions of value, economic status, race, culture, sexual orientation, and gender based on personal experiences. The work takes an explorative approach to the intersection of identity inspired by her own lived experience and investigates how bias, stereotypes, or personal experiences inform perception.
Shopping On A Rainy Day, 2015
Mixed media on cardboard
36 x 36 in
No Smoking
Mixed media on plywood
60 x 50.5 x 1 in
Subway Politics, 2017
Pullover, binder clips, newspaper, & cardboard
36 x 30 x 16.5 in
Women’s March (NY NY), 2016
Grease halloween costume, artist’s marched-in hat, vinyl re-created sign, vinyl lettering on cardboard
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LatchKey Gallery | 173 Henry Street | info@latchkeygallery.com | 646.213.9070