Cammie Staros has been selected as one of eight artists for The Armory Show Platform section. The presentation also features works by Diana Al-Hadid, Benny Andrews, Julian Charrière, Tau Lewis, Grayson Perry, Michael Rakowitz, and Yinka Shonibare CBE. Curated by Claudia Schmuckli, Curator-in-Charge of Contemporary Art and Programming at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the section features works that aim to bridge societal, historical and geographical divisions. This year's theme is Can you hear the fault lines breathing?
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Looking specifically to the shapely vessels of Classical Greece, Cammie Staros's hand-built objects marry ancient ceramic techniques with modern industrial materials such as milled and turned woods and machined metals. The resulting sculptures are rooted in history, yet disarmingly present. Staros often mines images and artifacts from the Greco-Roman period that aestheticize eroticism, violence, and victory. The artist anthropomorphizes her sculptures through references to armor and dress—often a gendered divide—as traditionally depicted on Greek figure vases.
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