Looking for Ghosts | Izel Vargas

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Written By Elsewhere Living Museum & Artist Residency

Izel Vargas Looking For Ghosts is a mixed media collage series based on Elsewhere’s collection of mass produced toys that presents the haunting effects of past popular forms that continue to linger past their cultural moment of inception, reminding us of our binds to the past and its forms as well as the unsticking effects of forgetting. These collages are installed in a bookshelf on the first floor of the museum, as theatrical backdrops where visitors can create tableaus using toys in the collection in response to them.

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Izel Vargas
Izel Vargas

Izel Vargas is a South Florida based mixed media artist and educator who hails from the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas (Alamo, TX). Raised in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Vargas cites his upbringing as playing a vital role in his approach to making art. He earned his BFA from the University of Texas Pan American and his MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC. As an educator, Vargas has taught art to all age groups and is an currently an instructor at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL.

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