Daniela Soberman
Serbian-American Daniela Soberman is a first-generation Serbian American self-taught artist living and working in Los Angeles. Primarily known for her immersive architectural-scale sculptures, Soberman creates intimate works that redefine the balance between structure and unrestrained expression. Soberman’s art is greatly influenced by growing up in working class immigrant neighborhoods in Los Angeles coupled with her time spent in the former Yugoslavia as a child. The Eastern European city landscapes were experienced without restraint, shadowed by the brutalist buildings that accompanied her. The daughter of an inventor and an artist, Soberman says she tries to “tap into that same lack of fear and adventure when creating the work”. Fearlessness and rebellion rule. Soberman courageously simulates lost urban settings - angular and fluffy plastered jungles built on dreams and grit and disappearing poets. Soberman makes work that takes up space then throws it back at you. Her hand-sculpted creations seduce the viewer into realms of frenzied making, unmaking, and remaking. Towering interlocking forms, made of plaster and various other compulsive materials, are a silently approachable, yet looming vortex. They delight and depress and are reminiscent of “weathered stone, ruins, and glazed cookies bitten by gargantuan gods.” Soberman is a storyteller who wants us all to feel connected, unrestrained, and open to play. What this body of work evokes is part of a greater narrative - part of the impulsive integrity of those who welcome its invitation. ---------------------------------------------- Artist Statement A friend suggested I write an artist’s statement to explain some of the ideas I’m exploring in the work. The truth is, I’m feeling many different things when I’m creating something. Here are some of the places where the ideas get generated from…
---------------------------------------------- CV b. Downey, CA [Los Angeles County] Lives and works in Los Angeles Art Education Self-taught SOLO Exhibitions + Museum Commissions 2022/23 GALLERY SOLO. When We Grow Up, Gallery SADE, Los Angeles, CA 2022 MUSEUM SOLO. Points of Intersection, Architectural-Scale Sculpture / Installation, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 2022 MUSEUM SOLO. Willmore, Resurrected, A Architectural-Scale Sculpture / Installation, J. Paul Getty Museum and Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 2022 MUSEUM SOLO. Stage 3, Architectural-Scale Sculpture / Installation, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA 2022 MUSEUM SOLO. Mutable Labyrinth, Architectural- Scale Sculpture / Installation, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA 2022 MUSEUM COMMISSION. Memorial to the Future, Architectural-Scale Sculpture / Installation, Commissioned by the Torrance Art Museum for the LA Art Show,Los Angeles, CA Selected Biennials 2022 Invited Finalist, Bucharest Biennale, Bucharest, Romania Select Two-Person and Group Exhibitions 2023 No Plateaus. Duel Exhibition with Keywan Tafteh. Reisig and Taylor Contemporary. Los Angeles. [forthcoming] 2023 The Horror. Special gallery show to support the launch of literary art journal Spunk Art and Perspectives. At Seis Gallery, Los Angeles. [forthcoming] 2023 Mercurachrome. Duel Exhibition with Nellie King Solomon. Changing Room, BERLIN Germany [forthcoming] 2023 Sabbath & Soberman Collab Sculpture as part of Zak Smith's Mid-Career Survey: An Unburnt Witch. Torrance Art Museum. 2023 Fever Dream Dream Fever. Los Angeles Mission College. Curated by Curtis Stage and Adam F Scott. 2023 Fashion District. Fosforita Madrid (SP) and Durden and Ray, Los Angeles 2022 Beautiful, Not Pretty, (Inaugural Grand Opening Exhibition), Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2022 FUN GAL GRO UP SHO, introducing #nextwave artists, Gallery SADE-LA, Los Angeles, CA 2022 Seismic State: California Ceramics. Juried and selected by Beth Ann Gerstein, Executive Director of AMOCA 2021 Nomad, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA 2021 AAXIX, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 2021 National Open Show, Selected by Peter Frank, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA 2021 Off-Center: International Ceramics Competition, Selected, Roseville, CA |