CASTRO
AMANDA ELENA
Objects have an innate significance to human culture as an indication of both our population and personal identity. I am exploring the means and extent of which we as humans determine our value through the accumulation of objects. Crucial to these ideologies is the understanding that objects are omnipotent in life affecting culture and individual.
Born in Santa Paula, California on August 22, 1988
lives and works in Kansas City, Missour
Education
Currently attending the Kansas City Art Institute, recieving her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting.
Artist Statement
“My art practice concerns the means of which we as humans determine our value through the accumulation. The two crucial elements of my practice being firstly accumulation and secondly the effort or the toil of labor that we self impose attempting to find value. My direction of practicing both toil and accumulation is imperative in having a sincere and direct approach in my criticisms of our cultural practices of value. I am focused around the method of how the objects and marks used in my installations, sculptures and paintings are formed and the amount of energies required bringing them into existence.”