Maria Elena Gonzalez Un Real Estates Author:Jerrilynn Dodds, Maria Elena Gonzalez Maria Elena González employs industrial materials to create sculptural installations that are architecturally as well as personally informed. Her reappropriations of architectural symbols, blueprints, and floor plans allude to the political, cultural, and emotional coding of physical space. After a 1997 trip to Turkey, the artist began inco... more »rporating flying carpet imagery in her work as a metaphor for personal desires and experiences. UN Real Estates, the first major publication on González's work, is a series of floor plans, of both individual rooms and entire dwellings, that together reference floors, rooftops, and welcome mats. Introductory texts speak about the unique experience and outreach that González created at each exhibition site, while accompanying essays critically examine González's works in the context of the visual arts, architecture, and personal ideology.
Edited by Leslie Luebbers.~Essays by Jerrilynn Dodds and Nancy Princenthal. ~Introductions by Holly Block, Diane Barber and Leslie Luebbers. Paperback, 9 x 10 in./56 pgs / 20 color.« less