Ginger Wolfe-Suarez

Ginger Wolfe-Suarez (born 1980) is an American artist, writer, and curator who has worked out of Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Atlanta. Her practice includes installation art, sculpture, drawings, and artist books. She has been featured in exhibitions in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and throughout the United States, at venues including Silverman Gallery, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Southern Exposure, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and High Desert Test Sites. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Sculpture, Art Papers and Art Practical, among other publications. Wolfe-Suarez draws on the traditions of feminist sculpture, Latin American installation art, conceptualism, and minimalism in works that function phenomenologically to explore the perception of space and materials, body-object relationships, ephemerality, and negotiations of memory. Artforum reviewer Annie Buckley described her show at Ltd Los Angeles as one in which "the cerebral [was] incidental to the sensory," with subtle images, fleeting reflections and lingering scents indicating the intangible. In 2014, she received a residency at SOMA, in Mexico City. Between 2009 and 2012, she taught foundations and drawing, studio classes, art criticism, and art theory in the graduate program at San Francisco Art Institute, the University of California, Berkeley and Mills College. Wolfe-Suarez is married to the artist, Primitivo Suarez. They have collaborated on architectural objects and installations, and together co-founded The Critique Program with artist Robert Olsen in 2012. Her writings on art have been published internationally in Art Papers, Sculpture, and MIT Press, among other publications. Her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, “Memory Objects” at ltd, combined built and cast objects, mirror fragments, hand-built light boxes, string that was dipped in or coated with scented oils, and a pile of dried mint leaves that operated in concert to create an open-ended temporal and phenomenological viewer experience. Wolfe-Suarez's shows “Theory of a Family” (Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, 2010) and "Both Are True" (Southern Exposure, Los Angeles, 2011) made similar use of disparate objects, sound and scent in tenuous relationship to body, space and memory. other reviewers compared her work's combination of spareness with symbolic, psychological, and narrative qualities to the work of Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, Doris Salcedo and Lee Ufan. She has also published artist projects and interviews with contemporary artists, such as Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Dario Robleto, and Haim Steinbach.