Location: Berkeley, CA
Medium: Sculpture, installation, interdisciplinary
Website: sandraono.com
Sandra Ono is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Berkeley, California. She received her MFA from Mills College, following undergraduate studies at UC Davis and Imperial College, London. She has completed residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts (California Visual Artist in Residence, 2012); Southern Exposure; University of Texas at Dallas (CentralTrak); Kala Art Institute (Kala Fellowship Award); Vermont Studio Center (Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship Award); Mascot Studio; Minnesota Street Project (TOSA Studio Award); Winslow House; and lower cavity (Holyoke, MA). She has taught at Mills College and California College of the Arts. Her work has been featured in ArtDaily and Hyperallergic.
Ono’s sculptural work is informed by biology and physiology. Her forms arise from a longstanding fascination with cellular structures and scientific renderings, but her materials are resolutely synthetic and domestic: plastic bags, earplugs, cotton swabs, black latex balloons, tin foil. Working through repetitive, accumulative gestures — building up structures cell by cell — she creates biomorphic forms that appear organic, mutated, and somehow alive, even as they are made entirely from mass-produced consumer goods. The process is also a physical documentation of time and labor. Her choice of materials, many of which have intimate contact with the human body, grounds the work in an examination of what we consume and what consumes us.
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