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Sulo Bee is a creature maker and world builder based in Central Texas. They hold a BFA in Metals and Jewelry from Texas State University in 2018 and an MFA from SUNY New Paltz in 2022. Sulo has exhibited their work nationally and internationally with various galleries, and Jewelry Weeks in Budapest, Milan, and New York. Sulo has lectured at various universities across the country such as the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, University of Louisiana in Lafayette, and the University of North Texas, as well as with Art Jewelry Forum for the “AJF Live” Series. They are a co-founder of Queer Metalsmiths where they seek to uplift queer voices in the field of metalsmithing and craft. Sulo is represented by INTRO by Galerie Marzee in the Netherlands, Freehand Gallery in LA, and Sifuentes Metalsmith in San Antonio, Texas.
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Artist Statement of Work
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My work explores the oscillation between reality and otherworldly places, guided by a need to transform my surroundings into enchanting spaces. Parts and pieces of pastel dreams emerge as spectral echoes of semi-corporeal creatures inhabiting an in-between place—a dreamlike mezzanine where these elements intersect with the planes of reality, shaping an alternate realm called SP4RKL3_FiLTH_CL0UD_NiN3.
Using vibrant colors and intricate constructions, material binaries blur as I layer and transform elemental algorithms through contour drawing and experimental metalworking. Stones, minerals, and sticks, combined with industrial materials and high-pigment paints, recode found organic detritus into ethereal technologies wielded by the realm’s inhabitants to fabricate artifacts of their existence.
This process brings clarity, revealing a unique visual language that decodes the elemental resonance of these artifacts and their connection to the queer subtleties in the evolution of my identity.