Women's Equality

Marisol Escobar was a Venezuelan-American sculptor who constructed monumental wooden figures and assemblages that combined carved, cast, and found elements into enigmatic hybrid forms. Working from the 1950s onward, she created life-sized and oversized figures that merged sculptural presence with a deadpan, almost anthropomorphic quality, often incorporating her own face cast in plaster or wood. Her work engaged with postwar consumer culture, celebrity, and the American vernacular without irony or narrative explanation. She exhibited internationally and was recognized as a major figure in sculpture and assemblage art.

New York, USA