💁🏼♀️💅🏼👠💃🏼 In Vogue 💁🏼♀️💅🏼👠💃🏼
a solo exhibition of collage works
March 2–29, 2017
Ray Gallery
55 Washington Street
#721
Brooklyn, NY 11201
F ♘ to York Street
A ♘ C ♘ to High Street
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An opening reception will take place on Thursday, March 2 from 6–9 pm
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The series of collage works from 💁🏼♀️💅🏼👠💃🏼 In Vogue 💁🏼♀️💅🏼👠💃🏼 draws visual inspiration from religious iconographies as well as art history and the art and design industry. The source imagery selected was cut from magazines and assembled back together intentionally aiming to mimic overused techniques in commercial advertising. This self-aware collage work is not only an attempt to emulate these tropes, but to also comment on the banality of their cliché nature. The creation of physical collage is a response to a similar collage aesthetic found in the artist’s street photography, specifically his portfolio Playing Atget 👞👞.
"The collage series 💁🏼♀️💅🏼👠💃🏼 In Vogue 💁🏼♀️💅🏼👠💃🏼 addresses pop culture by acting as a mirror reflection of the magazines they were cut from. The final constructions draw inspiration from Pop Art, specifically the handmade collage works of Lichtenstein and Warhol. When synthesizing the works I wanted to refer to religious iconography and took a more Classical compositional approach. Pop and Classical aesthetic elements may have been the main inspiration for these works, but the final collages are more connected to the continuation of my practice of 🆕 🆕 Photography."
2017
Andy // Interior
2017
Found magazine collage
30 ¹/₄" x 24 ¹/₂" (framed)
76.84 cm x 62.23 cm (framed)
$ 1,000
Status Symbols
2017
Found magazine collage
24 ¹/₂" x 30 ¹/₄" (framed)
62.23 cm x 76.84 cm (framed)
$ 1,000
Stones
2017
Found magazine collage
30 ¹/₄" x 24 ¹/₂" (framed)
76.84 cm x 62.23 cm (framed)
$ 1,000
Vogue // Wesselman
2017
Found magazine collage with wallpaper
39" x 31" (framed)
99.06 cm x 78.74 cm (framed)
$ 1,200
Idol Hands // Baldessari
2017
Found magazine collage
31" x 39" (framed)
78.74 cm x 99.06 cm (framed)
$ 1,200
Creationism
2017
Found magazine collage
31" x 39" (framed)
78.74 cm x 99.06 cm (framed)
$ 1,200
St. Monica
2017
Found magazine collage
24" x 21 ³/₄" (framed)
60.96 cm x 55.25 cm (framed)
$ 1,000
Mask for Masc
2017
Found magazine collage
24 ¹/₂" x 30 ¹/₄" (framed)
62.23 cm x 76.84 cm (framed)
$ 1,000
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