I am inspired by Martha Rosler’s artwork. She is an artist I reference in many of my collage productions for painting class. Martha Rosler is an American artist who works in video, photo-text, installation and performance. Her collage pieces in particular contrasts the domestic lives of women with international war, repression, politics, mass media and architectural structures. Many of her other works are concerned with geopolitics and urban planning and architecture.
She when making my collage pieces influenced me. In my first phase of collage production, I wanted to juxtapose subject matter from the past in contemporary settings. Below are some collages I did last semester. I wanted there to be some sort of optical illusion in the pictures. I was commenting on current issues of contemporary design magazines; they would profile in particular young individuals who decorated their spaces, drawing influence from old design aesthetics. I just thought this was always odd and found the usage of antique furniture pieces to be rather cliché.
Here is my drawing study this week. It is actually in part from a collage I made last week. It consists of a young hipster girl with a boom box in an aristocratic library. I though the contrast was interesting, both in material and subject matter. I felt it also comments on class differences. There is a bit of humor to the image as well, something I always try to incorporate in my artwork.
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