University of Puerto Rico (BA) Southwestern Law School (JD)
Known for
Sculpture • Land art
Awards
Harry S. Truman Scholarship, 57th GNMH AWARD
Gisela Colon (born 1966) is an American international contemporary artist who has developed a unique vocabulary of Organic Minimalism,[1][2][3][4] breathing lifelike qualities into reductive forms.[5][6] Operating at the intersection of art and science, Colon is best known for meticulously creating light-activated sculptures through industrial and technological processes. Drawing from aerospace and other scientific realms, Colon utilizes innovative sculptural materials such as carbon fiber and optical materials of the 21st century, to generate her energetic sculptures.[3] Colon's gender-fluid sculptures disrupt the traditional view of the masculine minimal object, by embodying qualities of energy, movement and growth, through a merger of industrial with the organic.[6]
Colon has exhibited internationally throughout the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Originally from San Juan Puerto Rico, but currently living and working in Los Angeles, California, Colon creates work that is the product of cross-cultural influences, fusing characteristics of Minimalism, Light and Space, Finish Fetish, Op Art, and Kinetic Art.[7]
Colon is one of the few women working in the Light and Space and Finish/Fetish movements. Recognized as a successor and legatee of California Minimalism and the Light and Space movements, Colon has exhibited her work alongside veterans of these movements such as Robert Irwin, Larry Bell, DeWain Valentine, Peter Alexander, Helen Pashgian and Mary Corse.[8][9][10][11][12][13] Her use of color, shapes and internal layering is considered "assertively feminist," [9] and "grounded in Minimalism."[14] Her work has been compared to earlier male artists like Craig Kaufman, Dewain Valentine, Doug Wheeler, and Peter Alexander for her use of materials and light as medium;[8][9] however, as pointed out in Artforum, "Colon's labors are very much her own...Her employ of industrial materials and techniques thus structurally redoubles an earlier industry-driven technophilia, even as she eschews her predecessor's penchant for outsourcing production."[8]
^Jenkins, Mark. "In the galleries: Depicting an energy of constant fluctuation and growth". washingtonpost.com. Washington Post. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
^Miller, James. "Private view: our pick of February gallery shows". theartnewspaper.com. The ARt Newspaper. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
^ abKnight, Christopher. "Gisela Colon's monolithic mysteries and playful wall 'pods'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
^Horst, Aarom. "Gisela Colon at Diane Rosenstein". www.contemporatyartreview.la. contemporaryartreview.la. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
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being cured of illnesses". Insider.com. Peschek-Böhmer, Flora; Schreiber, Gisela (1 May 1999). Urine Therapy: Nature's Elixir for Good Health. Inner Traditions...
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from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2018. Salomon, Gisela (9 November 2011). "Arroyo, Costa, Lora y Les Luthiers honrados por Academia...
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born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He is in charge of Lacthosa Cereales and Colon Fruit Company Cofructo, and is also the Honorary Consul of Jamaica in Honduras...
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Felix Burda Foundation, dedicated to the early detection and prevention of colon cancer. The foundation was named in memory of his son Felix, who died of...
towns in Late Roman Britain and early Anglo-Saxon England". In Ripoll, Gisela; Gurt, Josep M. (eds.). Sedes regiae (ann. 400–800) (in Latin). Barcelona...
Dominik; Jürgen Dahlkamp; Ulrich Fichtner; Ulrich Jaeger; Gunther Latsch; Gisela Leske; Max F. Ruppert (2003). "Panoply of the Absurd". Der Spiegel. Retrieved...
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