Zo Ulibarri

Artist Statement

My work investigates transformation and identity through monolithic forms that merge
religious, ancient, and postindustrial influences. With the human figure and eternal
symbols as central elements, I explore the tension between permanence and
impermanence, structure and collapse. Rooted in the landscapes of Colorado, my sense
of scale and reuse is informed by the waste, labor, and terrain of the Front Range and
the Sangre de Cristo Mountains that shaped my imagination. Each piece represents a
moment of self-understanding, where my Chicano heritage connects with acts of labor,
reclamation, and renewal. I reimagine the body in clay and found materials as a
monument to endurance, where tradition and disruption, body and environment, coexist
in constant transformation.