Carolyn Salas is a native of California, who currently lives and works in Brooklyn. Salas uses a wide array of materials including, found objects, craft oriented assemblages, fabric and recycled items to create sculptural transformations of materials and spaces. The work speaks to interactions between human civilization, hierarchical powers of societal success, relationships, and nature with an emotional resonance that takes the works beyond any one of these single issues and into a universal realm. In a culture obsessed with mass production and disposability her work is a conduit of her opposition to this standard. With laborious craft and handmade elements Salas exposes the imperfections and human attributes of burdens, failures and achievements of our everyday. She holds an MFA from Hunter College in New York and a BFA from the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico. Salas has completed solo exhibitions in New York at Priska Juschka Fine Art, as well as collaborative exhibitions at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Gallerie Nordine Zidoun in Luxembourg, Silly Thing Gallery in Hong Kong and Urbis, City Center in Manchester. Most recently Salas will be the 9th recipient of the Artist in Residence Award at Artspace in New Haven,CT and in the fall she will be attending the Djerassi Artist residency. Her work has been written about in the New York Times, The Village Voice, Milk Magazine, Chelsea Now Magazine, and others. Salas is a featured artist in the book “By Hand, Craft in Contemporary Art”.