Date:
June 9 - August 8, 2014

Location:
Martin de Porres Center
2330 Airport Drive
Columbus, OH 43219

Gallery hours by appointment only
Please Call (614) 416 - 1910

Mabi Ponce de León– a Midwest-based artist from Argentina who has also lived in Mexico – works with a variety of both analog and digital media. Strongly influenced by culture, maps, and origins, research plays an important part in Ponce de León’s work. Her images begin with research related to identity, location, and origins. The current installation work makes use of manipulated natural and manufactured materials whereas the two-dimensional work relies on juxtapositions of found and new images. Over a ground of maps, charts, and other found images, she superimposes larger diagrams and related motifs. Layered juxtapositions of concrete, symbolic, and abstract elements develop into complex, intuitive scenes.

Ponce de León has shown in university and commercial galleries, art centers, museums, and non-profit exhibition spaces.  Additionally, she has curated several shows.  Art Access Gallery of Columbus represents her work.

She has received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Florida International University and a Master of Fine Arts from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is currently working on a degree in the History of Art at Ohio State University. (2013)

Works from this series explore the use of mixed media and digital collage, found materials, and digital juxtapositions of found images. Revealing the passage of time, lapses or reorganization of memory, distances traveled, and feelings of not belonging/ foreignness, these works continue the exploration into being from two places and belonging to neither.  In addition, titles like Matrix, Despegar, and Tierra not only present the viewer with the ambiguity of language but also with multiple possible meanings that depend on its context.