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Despo Magoni

Brooklyn, NY

Website: despomagoni.com/

Neighborhood: Brooklyn Heights

Media:Books; Collage; Painting;
Genre:Autobiographical; Books; Collaborative; Collage; Constructed; Expressionistic; Feminist; Figurative; Historical; Language; Nudes; Narrative; Political;

ARTIST STATEMENT: Preoccupied with the human condition, I have used the human figure and head for their unlimited expressive potential to explore social issues, and to a larger degree women’s issues, inspired by myth, history, and current events. In my paintings, books, sculpture, and works of paper I blend the personal with the collective, the inner with the outer, and the past with the present. Themes of growth, mortality and the process of grieving are also expressed in my work. Lately, I have been working in a more abstract manner, and have related this new visual language to the themes of science, Labyrinth and the Cosmos.

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Hostages Held for Unknown Reasons (People in the News series)
1978
Oil pastel, charcoal & pencil on pages of the New York Times mounted on a linen sheet. 73 ½ X 58 ½ inches
About Men (People in the News series)
1978
Oil pastel, charcoal, colored pencil on pages of the NY Times, mounted on a linen sheet 64 1/2 X 86 inches
Sacks Fifth Avenue (People in the News series)
1977
Oil pastel on a page of the NY Times 23 X 14 1/4 inches
Business and Finance (People in the News series)
1977
Oil pastel on a page of the NY Times 23 X 14 1/4 inches
Echoes from the Past are Always Present #3
1980
Charcoal, oil pastel, colored pencil, paper & Xerox collage on paper 26 1/4 X 48 1/2 inches
The Castle (The Queen's Moves in a Game of Chess series)
1989
Oil on Canvas 68 x 50 inches
Move # 3 (The Queen's Moves in a Game of Chess series)
1990
Oil on canvas 68 X 50 1/2 inches
Move # 9 (The Queen's Moves in a Game of Chess series)
1991
Oil on canvas 67 X 56 inches
Pawn # 3 (The Queen's Moves in a Game of Chess series)
1992
Oil on canvas 17 X 17 inches
The Diary of Scheherazade (from The Thousand and One Nights series)
1996-99
Artist’s book; mixed media, feathers, collage, string in a book 8 ½ x 1 x 5 ½ inches
Scheherazade’s Story #1: Mirage
1999
Pencil, color pencil, charcoal, photostat, and glassine on paper, 16 2/8 x 69 7/8
Scheherazade’s Story #3: I’ll Grant Anything You Wish or Desire
1999
Pencil, color pencil, charcoal, photostat, and glassine on paper 161/4 x 69 7/8 inches
Scheherazade’s Story #6: Sueño
2000
Pencil, color pencil, charcoal, photostat, and glassine on paper 16 2/8 x 70 3/8 inches
Musica Universalis #2 (Sky Watch series)
2005
Mixed media & collage on paper 42 X 69 inches
Burning Flames in the Sky (Sky Watch series)
2007
Charcoal, pastel & collage on paper 11 3/8 X 9 inches (each)
Celestial Crossings #13 (Sky Watch series)
2009
Mixed media & collage on paper 24 X 20 1/4 inches
The World of the Greeks: A Book Transformed
2002
Collage on a book cover 9 1/2 x 1 x 7 7/8 inches
A Book Transformed #10
2002
Charcoal, pastel, collage on rice paper 14 x 28 ¼ inches
A Book Transformed #7
2002
Charcoal, pastel, collage on rice paper 14 x 28 ¼ inches
A Book Transformed #8
2002
Charcoal, pastel, collage on rice paper 14 x 28 ¼ inches

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