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'''Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels ''' (b. Knoxville, TN, 1982)

Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels works as a site-responsive sculpture artist, using installation as a form of reenvisioning pre-existing architectural contexts. Her sculptural intrusions transform ordinary constructive elements into renderings of imaginative disruption, shifting reality, and calling attention to the role our environment plays in our perceptions of being. Bothwell-Fels begs the question: "what is the line between the physical world and our imagined version...How are the interchangeable?"

Bothwell-Fels' stems from fictional methods of imagining and creating forms which integrate bodily, environmental, and architectural elements. Deriving from source materials such as lactating breast and erupting volcanoes, this language takes form via bursts through gallery floor, bulges and manipulated parcels of residential structures. These sculptural ecosystems disturb the architectural pretense of the mundane with imaginative outbreaks of growths, pores, discharges, and ruptures - inviting us to reevaluate establish norms which are constantly reinforced through the physicality of our built environments.

First trained as a social psychologist at Stanford University, then as a metalsmith at the Appalachian Center for Craft, Bothwell-Fels later received her MFA from Columbia University. She has received the Peter S. Foundation Award, Wingate Fellowship at Purchase College, and qualified as a finalist for the 2019 NYFA Architecture/Environment Structure/Design Award. Furthermore, her work has been presented at The Clocktower Gallery (NYC), Pioneer works, BRIC, and Smack Mellon (Brooklyn), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Sun Valley Center for the Arts (Ketchum), and University of Wisconsin (Oshkosh).

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