Daniela Soberman Serbian-American BIO First generation American and daughter to immigrant parents from former socialist Yugoslavia, Daniela grew up making regular visits to Eastern Europe /Yugoslavia (pre and post civil-war) where brutalism and socialist avant-garde became foundational to her DNA and now regularly show up in her work. Soberman works at the intersection of sculpture and gestural mark making -- creating works full of emotion, wit, and humor. Her materials have included ceramic, polystyrene, plaster, flour, ink, chalk, paint, and cotton. ---------------------------------------------- Artist Statement At the very core of it, I’m a storyteller. I make sculpture and installations that are highly emotional — yet playful. In my work, I’m attempting to get people to question established systems, constructs, canons, and norms (and break them) while at the same time reminding us of our collective humanity. That we are, each one of us, imperfect, messy, playful, emotional animals -- all more similar than we are different — all of us living through this invented/constructed system, together. ---------------------------------------------- CV b. Downey, CA [Los Angeles County] Lives and works in Los Angeles Art Education Self-taught SOLO Exhibitions + Museum Commissions 2022 When We Grow Up [First Gallery Solo Show], Gallery Sade, Los Angeles, CA [Forthcoming] 2022 Points of Intersection, Architectural-Scale Sculpture / Installation, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 2022 Willmore, Resurrected, Architectural-Scale Sculpture / Installation, J. Paul Getty Museum and Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 2022 Stage 3, Architectural-Scale Sculpture / Installation, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA 2022 Mutable Labyrinth, Architectural-Scale Sculpture / Installation, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA 2022 Memorial to the Future, Architectural-Scale Sculpture / Installation, Commissioned by the Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles, CA Selected Biennials 2022 Invited Finalist, Bucharest Biennale, Bucharest, Romania Select Two-Person and Group Exhibitions 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 
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