Inner Space Being small art and belonging

and belonging

Archival inkjet print on birch plywood

Maldonado grew up in the Central San Joaquin Valley of California in a family of migrant field laborers

from paper to wood sculpture

image 14" x 21”

Inner Space Being small art and belongingPortland based but California bred artist, Souther Salazar's installations transport the viewer into a vibrant and endless world of overlapping drawn, painted, sculpted and animated narratives and dreamscapes half remembered, half imagined places where stories can develop and take on a life of their own. Utilizing a variety of mixed media, found objects and layers of assemblage, his work evokes the wonders and imagination that many of us abandoned in