Paula Castillo, Paula Castillo welded Brutalist sculpture

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while composed of industrial steel this has a delicate almost floral quality to it and is suitable for the outdoors … Read more while composed of industrial steel this has a delicate almost floral quality to it and is suitable for the outdoors and would work beautifully in a garden. it also filters light through it. Paula Castillo recently completed large sculpture commissions for the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe and the Cesar Chavez Memorial in Albuquerque. She shows her welded steel sculpture at William Siegal Gallery in Santa Fe. Paula says this about her art: ” I see form as alive and emerging from itself in an easy flash. My work is frequently composed of thousands of discarded pieces from industrial metal fabrication processes. My impulse is always to create something both beautiful and unsettling. Born in 1961, I was raised in Belen, a small town in New Mexico along the Rio Grande. I have lived and worked in Córdova, New Mexico since 1990. Latin American. Paula Castillo completed a site-specific sculpture installation in the city of Belen, NM in 2001. Commissioned by the State of New Mexico, the project involves large cement columns and granite stones. She was also invited to participate in the show "Steel Grrrls" opening September 7th, 2001 in Houston, Texas. Feminist SELECT PERMANENT PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS Art Enterprises, Ltd., Chicago, IL Bold Energy, Midland, TX. Four Seasons Hotel, Punta Mita, Mexico. City of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM. International Camino Real Center, Socorro, NM. National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM. New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM. Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, WA. Paul Allen, private collection. State Capitol Building, Capitol Arts Collection, Santa Fe, NM See less