MARIA-ELENA SANCHEZ AND SELINA SHARON—Plotting Decorum: Fabricated Ornamental Gardens, and Outrageously Indulged Interiors, Entrapped within a Florid Embroidering of Memory
Joseph Clayes III Gallery
MARIA-ELENA SANCHEZ AND SELINA SHARON
Plotting Decorum: Fabricated Ornamental Gardens, and Outrageously Indulged Interiors, Entrapped within a Florid Embroidering of Memory
July 26–August 30, 1997
Plotting Decorum was a collaborative, site-specific installation by emerging San Diego artists Maria-Elena Sanchez and Selina Sharon. The installation took its departure from reflections upon formal European gardens of the 15th through the 19th centuries, exploring the intersections between gardening as a social activity, the manicuring of both the human body and the garden, and the extravagant growth of ornamental decor. Maria-Elena Sanchez is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at UCSD. She earned a B.F.A. at the University of Texas, El Paso, and also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, and the Yale Summer School of Music and Art. Selina Sharon, whose work reflects her African, East Indian, and European ancestry, is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at UCSD, and earned her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Like her colleague, she also studied at Skowhegan. Her installation work primarily combines photographic and sculptural elements and has been shown in Chicago and San Diego.