( 1995 – 2005 )
I started my artistic career as a sculptor in 1995, eventually I combined stone and wood with the metal, and also used concrete.
I remember the awe I felt when my first sculpture happened, as if it had come through me. I have not...
“Robert Rauschenberg famously said that he wanted to work in the gap between art and life, and many contemporary artists followed his lead — not just in incorporating a miscellany of objects and media in their work, but also demystifying the artistic process from romantic inspiration to open-ended experimentation. Such an esthetic demands not just a fearless openness to stimuli and ideas, but also the visual imagination and instincts to refine the daily chaos into an ordered esthetic beauty. Poloto, who immigrated to California in 1992 as a young electrical engineer and discovered her knack for visual communication almost by chance, possesses both qualities in abundance. Pursuing her art education independently, she picked up metalworking, painting, and photographic skills as she needed them —“Nothing could stop me,” she says. She remembers somewhat wryly, however, that after welding metal sculptures out of creative compulsion, she discovered a book on Abstract Expressionist sculptor David Smith, and in it, her unknown artistic ancestors” ( Dewitt Cheng – writer and art critic )
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