Color Constructions

Abstract

Collage is the vehicle by which I explore social and cultural conceptions of identity. Through direct appropriation from a variety of sources—including health manuals, child-rearing texts, how-to and vin­tage children’s coloring books, as well as found photographs—I construct evocative and often humorous juxtapositions of text and image in order to illuminate our society’s reactionary and often ridiculous relation to identity stereotypes.

Color can be both a formal concern and conceptual matter in a work of art. In collage it is more often than not a byproduct of the found elements of the work rather than linked directly to its conceptual agenda. Color, however, is central to both the formal structure and conceptual ideation of my work.