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Full Name

Barbara Ustanko

Artist Bio

birth. life. death. repeat as necessary. rinse well.

Artist Statement

I am a textile artist and yoga practitioner with a deep-seated love of textures, found objects, assemblage and incongruity. My work explores a number of themes elicited by the Barbie phenomenon: the culture of materialism, the dissociative impact of repeated exposure to artificial images of perfection, the interplay of presence and absence inherent in human experience, and -- through it all -- the ever-present spark of the divine within that refuses to be extinguished no matter how many layers of conditioning may temporarily obscure it from our view.

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