Doris Salcedo Inspiration

Doris Salcedo has been a well-known artist since the early 1990s. Her art has demonstrated a great verity of emotions that closely relate to expressing pain, mourning, loss, and trauma. Salcedo was born in 1958 and grew up in the city of Bogota, Colombia. She obtained her fine arts degree in the Universidad de Bogata Jorge Tadeo Lozano at the age of 22. She later earned her Masters at New York University in the year 1984, only four years after receiving her bachelors. Since young, she became aware of the things surrounded her and it was those awareness’s, and her life experiences, that allowed her to obtained her inspiration for her artwork. Her artwork can be found all around the world such as in the Art Institution of Chicago, the National Gallery of Canada, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She obtained her first solo gallery show in the United States in the year 1994 in the Brooke Alexander Gallery in New York. Her inspirational work has impacted

Some of her most famous pieces were constructed of old wooden tables, cabinets, and chairs. Salcedo gets her inspiration from stories that she has second witness through the stories that people have told her. Often these people are victims who have experience violence in Columbia. These storied range from experiencing poverty, witness the loss of a loved ones disappearance, or lost a love one to death in some immoral way. These are the stories that Salcedo prospers on and bases her artwork on. Her art plays the role of reminding the public of something that no longer exists. It reminds people of the things that one often wishes too forget, while at the same time, explaining the importance of not letting these events to be forgotten and thrown away, but rather acknowledged and used as a way to change what is being