PAULA CASTILLO | WORK PRIOR TO 2008 BUT SOME STILL AVAILABLE

For me, form is complex and adaptable with all of its hundreds of fluid and solid systems: regional watersheds, train sounds, star flows, off the interstate, waving at someone. Like hydrogen attaching to oxygen in a flowing hexagonal movement or a group of people laughing at an absent minded gesture, I see form as alive and emerging from itself in an easy flash.
Born in 1961 in a small town in New Mexico along the Rio Grande, Castillo's work is frequently composed of thousands of discarded pieces from industrial metal fabrication processes. The resulting sculptures are both beautiful and unsettling; at times appearing to have arisen organically, other times otherworldly. Castillo currently lives and works in Córdova, New Mexico, a tiny village in the mountains north of Santa Fe.

SELECTED AWARDS & COMMISSIONS:
2009 LAND ART: A collaborative exploration of land-based art in New Mexico
2008 New Mexico History Museum Finalist | New Mexico Art in Public Places
2008 “César Chávez Memorial” | Albuquerque Public Art Program
2004 Fine Work Prize | Public Art International Competition in Tokyo
2004-5 ”The Arroyo Project” | Albuquerque Public Art Program
2004 “The Blue House” | New Mexico Art in Public Places
2004 ”o’matsapa” | Acclaimed Artist Series from New Mexico Arts in Public Places
2001 “Aquila” | New Mexico Arts in Public Places
2000 International Sculpture Award
2000 The National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1999 The National Science Foundation Fellowship