Teresa Escobar is a neon artist originally from Mexico, She moved to New York in May 2012. In 2015 Escobar signed up for a neon workshop at "Brooklyn Glass" and she has been learning the glass bending and neon art since, there, she found a way to express herself.

She understands glass as a fragile, manageable yet powerful and sensual medium. Teresa enjoys the process of how to bring her visions to life based on her emotions and life experience, she is also an Ocean and beach lover so some of her work is being installed at the beach, where she gets to admire the movement of the waves, the colors of the sky and capture them as a background for her light sculptures. She also creates female breasts that represent women and expresses the variety, uniqueness and beauty of them all. Although boobs are similar, none of the shape and colors are ever the same and she celebrates that. Sometimes you’ll see some Neon work that makes reference to her favorite show “Seinfeld”!!!

Proud member of SHE BENDS the first and only collective of women bending their own neon.

Artist Statement

When working, I seek to mirror my life experience and bring to light deep human emotions.  I predominantly work through the medium of neon light tubes;  I see their fragility as a metaphorical representation of human sensitivity. I fire the glass in order to bend it and create simple shapes that carry a long history and baggage of meanings (such as body parts, the sun, flowers, among others).  The glass tubes are eventually filled up with gases, and the various color of the light reveal these shapes. It is an objective of mine to hold a sensitive conversation through this somewhat untraditional medium, while keeping in mind its art historical relevance.  Neon in the art context has largely been associated to male artists, and to advertisement in the public realm; I seek to converse with both of these contexts, while injecting, interweaving and revealing a feminist narrative as a final result.   The concept of "enlightenment" -as Plato describes when Socrates is seised by an idea in "The allegory of the cave"- is a narrative that is also present in my work, and I like to experience this "revelation" when I see my completed pieces finally light up.