ARTIST STATEMENT: I majored in Art History in college, with an interest in Netherlandish Arts and of course the Renaissance. Many classic portraits, found in my collection of de-accessioned art books, have been in the back of my mind since.
In May and June 2014 I had the privilege of being the Artist-in_Residence a studio at the Leonard Covello Center in East Harlem. I brought those pictures with me to my studio. I started by taping a few portraits on the wall and drawing the faces on brown paper. They became my Muses as well as my subject matter. I spent a good amount of time in their presence and felt very fond and even possessive of them.
I used a xerox machine to copying the reproductions onto 100% cotton paper.
At first I cut and wove them with themselves, then I started combining them with other faces, crossing the centuries. The collages changed artist by artist and week by week. This portfolio is a cross-section of that work.”
Semiotics of Velazquez 2014 reproduction. paper, glue 16 x 20" from Collages from Art History, 2014.
Velazquez, several portraits of Princess Marguerite
Princess Marguerite x 60 2014 paper, glue, reproductions 30 x 8.5" collage made from a reproduction of Princess Marguerite by Diego Velazquez. from Collages from Art History, 2014.
Mona x 2 2014 reproduction. paper, glue 9 x 7.75" from Collages from Art History, 2014.
Mona Lisa (forward & backward)
Van der Weyden, Back& Forth 2014 reproduction. paper, glue 9 x 6.75" from Collages from Art History, 2014.
Van Der Weyden, Portrait of a Lady
Fouquet/Supriseye 2014 reproduction. paper, glue 9.75 x 8 from Collages from Art History, 2014.
Fouquet
Blasphemy (Fouquet & Benton) 2014 collage- paper, glue 8.5 x 16" from Collages from Art History, 2014.
Fouquet & Benton
Crivelli & Lautrec 2014 reproduction. paper, glue 9 x 7.5" from Collages from Art History, 2014.
Crivelli & Lautrec, woven
Crivelli & Lautrec 2 2014 reproduction. paper, glue 9.5 x 16" from Collages from Art History, 2014.
Crivelli & Lautrec, striped.
Two Sad Ladies 2014 reproduction. paper, glue 10 x 15.75 from Collages from Art History, 2014.
Lautrec & Lautrec
Manet/Bernard 2014 reproduction. paper, glue 7.5 x 20" from Collages from Art History, 2014.
Manet and Bernard
The Crossing/Lady Jean 2014 reproduction. paper, glue 9.75 x 13.75 from Collages from Art History, 2014.
Spillager/Bellows
Frida Neg/Pos 2014 reproduction. paper, glue 9 x 6.75" from Collages from Art History, 2014.
Frida Kahlo
VanderWeyden Portrait of A Lady Pos/Neg 2 reproduction. paper, glue 10.75 x 16.25 from Woven Women, Collages from Art History, 2014.
Vander Weyden's Portrait of A lady
Frida Neg/Pos/Woven 2014 reproduction. paper, glue 9.75 x 7.5" from Woven Women, Collages from Art History, 2014.
Frida Kahlo, woven
Frida Back&Forth 2014 reproduction. paper, glue 9 x 7.5" from Collages from Art History, 2014.
Frida Kahlo
Steen/Picasso 2014 reproduction. paper, glue 9 x 14" from Collages from Art History, 2014.
Steen & Picasso
Rembrandt's Wives as Flora 2014 reproduction. paper, glue 11 x 16" from Collages from Art History, 2014.
Rembrandt
Bathus/Terese & Dreaming 2014 reproduction. paper, glue 8 x 13.25" from Collages from Art History, 2014.
Bathus