Cloud Taxi

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Cloud Taxi by Souther Salazar

8″ x 6″ x 1.75″, Acrylic and Collage on Trekell Artist Panel

Current Exhibition at Flower Pepper Gallery: The Power of 3 from May 23rd to June 23rd, 2015

Artist Biography:
Souther Salazar was born in 1978 in Hayward, CA. In the early 1990s, as a teenager in rural Oakdale, Salazar made photocopied cut-and-paste mini-comics and ‘zines. After graduating from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, he moved to Los Angeles where he lived and worked for ten years before re-locating to Portland OR, where he is currently based. Salazar’s artwork transports the viewer into a vibrant and endless world of overlapping narratives and dreamscapes— half-remembered, half-imagined places “where stories can develop and take on a life of their own.” Utilizing a wide variety of freely mixed media, found objects and layers of assemblage, his work evokes the wonders and imagination that many of us abandoned in childhood. Salazar often exhibits his collages, paintings, drawings and sculptures in dense and frenzied installations that encourage exploration and discovery.

Education:
2003 BFA with Distinction: Art Center College of Design. Pasadena, CA

Solo Exhibitions:
2015 Attic Transmissions. Narwhal Contemporary. Toronto, ON
2013 Souvenirs. Jonathan Levine Gallery. New York, NY
2012 You and Me (and the Mouse in the Moon). Narwhal Projects. Toronto, ON Canada
2011 You Come Too. Jonathan Levine Gallery. New York, NY
2009 Last Year’s Man. Jonathan Levine Gallery. New York, NY
2007 Make it Real. GR2. Los Angeles, CA
2007 Space Cadets. Jonathan Levine Gallery. New York, NY
2006 We Were Young and It was Summer. GRNY. New York, NY
2004 The Neighborhood. GR2. Los Angeles, CA
2003 Glide, Skid, Collide. GR2. Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2014 Platinum Blend. Modern Eden Gallery. San Francisco, CA
2014 BLAB. Copro Gallery. Los Angeles, CA
2014 Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty. Japanese American National Museum. Los Angeles, CA
2014 Reverse Engineered. Hellion Gallery. Portland, OR
2012 Art 43 Basel. Jonathan Levine Gallery. Basel, Switzerland
2012 Juxtapoz turns 18. Copro Gallery. Culver City, CA
2010 Scion Installation 7 – Video. Los Angeles, CA
2010 Pattern Recognition. Subliminal Projects. Los Angeles, CA
2010 Five Year Anniversary exhibition. Jonathan Levine Gallery. New York, NY
2010 Schöne neue Welt. Fumetto Internationales Comix-Festival. Lucerne, Switzerland
2009 Giant Robot Biennale 2. Japanese American National Museum. Los Angeles, CA
2009 Scion Installation 5 – Self Portraits. Los Angeles, CA
2009 Strips, Scripts and Scapes: Contemporary Comix in Southern California.
Riverside Art Museum. Riverside, CA
2008 Cinders booth at Aqua Contemporary Art Fair. Aqua Hotel. Miami, FL
2008 Made in America. Choque Cultural Gallery. Sao Paulo, Brazil
2007 Crooked Smiles, Steady Voices, and a Trunk Full of Cash. Cinders Gallery. Brooklyn, NY
2007 Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues. Japanese American National Museum. Los Angeles, CA
2005 Flood the Gutters. New Image Art. Los Angeles, CA
2005 Unnatural History. Metalstone Gallery. New York, NY
2005 Panelists. GRNY. New York, NY
2005 Flaunt. Junc Gallery. Los Angeles, CA
2005 I’m Glad We Met. GRSF. San Francisco, CA
2005 I Find You. Cinders Gallery. Brooklyn, NY
2005 Amorously. Motel Gallery. Portland, OR
2004 Horses and Babies for Sale. Fifty24SF with New Image Art. San Francisco, CA
2004 Five Ways to See. Minna Gallery. San Francisco, CA
2004 Nook and Cranny. New Image Art. Los Angeles, CA
2004 Giant Robot: 10 Year Anniversary. GR2. Los Angeles, CA
2004 SubUrban. 1300 Gallery. Cleveland, OH
2004 Three Minutes of Happiness. RE:UP Selective Hearing Gallery. San Diego, CA
2004 Marginalia. The Smell. Los Angeles, CA
2004 One. Motel Gallery. Portland, OR
2004 Affair. Motel Gallery. Portland, OR
2004 The Skull Show. HaNNa Gallery. Tokyo, Japan
2004 Plushtastrophe: The Art of Plush. (traveling) Portland, Toronto, Los Angeles, San Francisco
2004 The Stray Show. Fair: New Image Art. Chicago, IL
2003 Winter Wonderland. Motel Gallery. Portland, OR
2003 Lead Poisoning. New Image Art. Los Angeles, CA
2003 Puddle Jumpers. New Image Art. Los Angeles, CA
2003 Robots Have Feelings Too. Culture Cache. San Francisco, CA
2002 Making. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mary Boone Gallery. Los Angeles, CA.

Selected Press and Publications:
Delusional: The Story of Jonathan Levine Gallery. Gingko Press, 2011
“Souther Salazar unveils ‘Alejandro and the Idea Machine’ for Subliminal Projects crowd at Pattern Recognition.” LA Weekly, November 2011
Juxtapoz Handmade. Gingko Press, 2010
Friends We Love – Off the Wall Series. Artist profile video, May 2009
“The King of Memory Mountain.” Kramers Ergot (Vol. 7) Buenaventura Press, 2008
“Fervler and Razzle.” Kramers Ergot (Vol. 6) Buenaventura Press, 2006
Destined for Dizziness. Children’s book. Buenaventura Press, 2005
“Souther Salazar: Fantastic Planet,” Giant Robot (Issue 39, Dec. 2005) Cover and Interview
“Fervler and Razzle.” Kramers Ergot (Vol. 5) Gingko Press, 2004
“Blood. Sweat. Paper. Ink. (L.A.’s hottest names in comics),” Los Angeles Times (September 16, 2004) Profile
“Souther Salazar: The 2003 Minimalism Cartoonist of the Year,” The Comics Journal, May 2003
“LA Top Five, (Top up and coming LA artists),” art.blogging.la (August 3, 2004)
“These Things are Close to My Heart: Souther Salazar Profiled and Interviewed,” The Comics Journal, May 2003
“MAKING,” KCET Life and Times (aired Feb 12, 2003) TV Interview
“Please Don’t Give Up” and “Give Me Drumrolls Forever.” Kramers Ergot (Vol. 4), 2003

Artist Website: http://southersalazar.com/

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