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Style: Contemporary
Medium: Mylar
Fallen Logs - Forest Landscape Black Sumi Ink White Mylar, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary landscape in black sumi ink on Mylar, a peaceful forest scene is intricately detailed, beautifully capturing the serenity of a walk in the woods.
This ink drawi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Sumi Ink
Forest No. 1, after Tom
Located in New York, NY
This drawing by Zachari Logan is a self portrait made with colored pencil on Mylar depicting the artist nude immersed in the foliage of the forest.
Forest No. 1, After Tom
2022
Accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
Colored pencil on Mylar
9 x 6.5 inches
“This drawing is a tribute to Tom of Finland, whose work has long-influenced my own in relation to drawing, the construction of space, and self-portraiture. In Finland’s compositions, images of men in the landscape—logging, foresting, and relaxing (together, naked, clothed, alone, in pairs and in groups) had a profound effect on my own thinking about the queer body represented. I see no separation between land and body—we are nature. The queer body is not unnatural (that is a false dichotomy, often espoused by religious and conservative world views). Finland’s renderings of bodies in nature are for me a rupture of the largely European tradition of only representing male nudity...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
Anonymous Self Portrait LIV
Located in New York, NY
Ink, graphite, and oil paint on double-sided frosted Mylar film mounted to board
Signed and dated on label, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Cub...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Oil, Board, Graphite, Ink
Big Tree - Forest Landscape Black Sumi Ink White Mylar, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary landscape in black sumi ink on Mylar, a peaceful forest scene is intricately detailed, beautifully capturing the serenity of a walk in the woods.
This ink drawi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Sumi Ink
Vernal Pool Two - Forest Landscape Black Sumi Ink White Mylar, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary landscape in black sumi ink on Mylar, a peaceful forest scene is intricately detailed, beautifully capturing the serenity of a walk in the woods.
This ink drawi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Sumi Ink
Vernal Pool Three - Forest Landscape Black Sumi Ink White Mylar, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary landscape in black sumi ink on Mylar, a peaceful forest scene is intricately detailed, beautifully capturing the serenity of a walk in the woods.
This ink drawi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Sumi Ink
Two Trees - Forest Landscape Black Sumi Ink White Mylar, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary landscape in black sumi ink on Mylar, a peaceful forest scene is intricately detailed, beautifully capturing the serenity of a walk in the woods.
This ink drawi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Sumi Ink
Portrait of Matt Latham - Large Scale Portrait, Original Charcoal on Mylar
By Mary Borgman
Located in Chicago, IL
Mary Borgman’s work captivates the viewer in several ways. First is their scale. They hang like medieval tapestries, with figures standing as tall as eight feet. There is also their texture – created by using charcoal on Mylar, and the results are richly gestural, with distinct charcoal strokes and eraser marks animating the figure and ground alike. With a flat surface, she creates volume and life. And perhaps the most powerful of all, the viewer is caught be the gazes of the models, who stare forcefully out of the picture. They seem to be examining us every bit as much as we are examining them.
These larger-than-life portraits stem from chance encounters that grow into meaningful connections between the artist and her subject. Most are strangers that she approaches on the street. They capture her attention with expressive eyes that show experience and wisdom, distinctive shapes and a casual body language. “I try to honor the people I am drawing by centering them in the format and shooting from slightly below their eye level. I choose an expression that exudes intelligence, self-awareness and complexity. I try to convey their humanness. I want the viewer to feel this person might be someone interesting to know”, says Borgman of her subjects. The intensity with which she conveys the eyes may stem from her many years of communicating in sign language, which is based on sustained eye contact.
Borgman loves the directness of drawing. It is immediate, there is no lag time. There is no time waiting for the paint to dry. She works solely in charcoal which she can manipulate to achieve varying degrees of darkness and opacity. It is messy and the artist loves that.
Mary Borgman
Portrait of Matt Latham
charcoal on mylar
60h x 40w in
152.40h x 101.60w cm
MBG011
FRAMED DIMENSIONS
62h x 42w x 2.25d in
157.48h x 106.68w x 5.71d cm
[This work is custom framed in shadow box style with non-reflective Tru-Vue Museum Glass]
Mary Borgman
b. October 4, 1959 St. Louis, MO
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017 Grand Opening: Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2013 SOFA Chicago 2013, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge, National Portrait Gallery, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
2012 Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
SOFA Chicago 2012, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
SOFA NY, Ann Nathan Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Gallery Group Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
SOFA NY, Ann Nathan Gallery, New York, NY
2010 SOFA Chicago 2010: Special Installation at SOFA Café, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
What’s the Buzz on the Playground: Art of Today from St. Louis curated by Mary Sprague...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Charcoal
Tender Target
Located in New Orleans, LA
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Goddess (figurative, pregnant, life drawing, black and white, mirror)
By Susan Kiefer
Located in Kansas City, MO
Susan Kiefer
Goddess
Charcoal, pastel and reflective mylar on paper
Year: 2000
Size: 30x25x0.35in
Signed, dated and inscribed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1660
Framed drawing o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Water No. 2, after Tom
Located in New York, NY
This drawing by Zachari Logan is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
Portrait of Manop - Monumental Portrait, Original Charcoal on Mylar, Framed
By Mary Borgman
Located in Chicago, IL
* Provenance: This artwork was included in Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, 2012-2013. The exhibition traveled to the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, AR in 2013.
Mary Borgman
b. October 4, 1959 St. Louis, MO
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017 Grand Opening: Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2013 SOFA Chicago 2013, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge, National Portrait Gallery, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
2012 Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
SOFA Chicago 2012, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
SOFA NY, Ann Nathan Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Gallery Group Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
SOFA NY, Ann Nathan Gallery, New York, NY
2010 SOFA Chicago 2010: Special Installation at SOFA Café, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
What’s the Buzz on the Playground: Art of Today from St. Louis curated by Mary Sprague...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Charcoal
Portrait of Justin Shanitkvich - Large Scale Charcoal on Mylar Original, Framed
By Mary Borgman
Located in Chicago, IL
Mary Borgman’s work captivates the viewer in several ways. First is their scale. They hang like medieval tapestries, with figures standing as tall as eight feet. There is also their texture – created by using charcoal on Mylar, and the results are richly gestural, with distinct charcoal strokes and eraser marks animating the figure and ground alike. With a flat surface, she creates volume and life. And perhaps the most powerful of all, the viewer is caught be the gazes of the models, who stare forcefully out of the picture. They seem to be examining us every bit as much as we are examining them.
These larger-than-life portraits stem from chance encounters that grow into meaningful connections between the artist and her subject. Most are strangers that she approaches on the street. They capture her attention with expressive eyes that show experience and wisdom, distinctive shapes and a casual body language. “I try to honor the people I am drawing by centering them in the format and shooting from slightly below their eye level. I choose an expression that exudes intelligence, self-awareness and complexity. I try to convey their humanness. I want the viewer to feel this person might be someone interesting to know”, says Borgman of her subjects. The intensity with which she conveys the eyes may stem from her many years of communicating in sign language, which is based on sustained eye contact.
Borgman loves the directness of drawing. It is immediate, there is no lag time. There is no time waiting for the paint to dry. She works solely in charcoal which she can manipulate to achieve varying degrees of darkness and opacity. It is messy and the artist loves that.
Mary Borgman
Portrait of Justin Shanitkvich, 2022
charcoal on mylar
53h x 40w in
134.62h x 101.60w cm
MBG009
[This work is custom framed in shadow box style with non-reflective Tru-Vue Museum Glass]
FRAMED DIMENSIONS
55.25h x 42.50w x 2.25d in
140.34h x 107.95w x 5.71d cm
Mary Borgman
b. October 4, 1959 St. Louis, MO
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017 Grand Opening: Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2013 SOFA Chicago 2013, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge, National Portrait Gallery, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
2012 Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
SOFA Chicago 2012, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
SOFA NY, Ann Nathan Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Gallery Group Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
SOFA NY, Ann Nathan Gallery, New York, NY
2010 SOFA Chicago 2010: Special Installation at SOFA Café, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
What’s the Buzz on the Playground: Art of Today from St. Louis curated by Mary Sprague...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Charcoal
Dina Brodsky, Egret, Realist oil paint on mylar animal miniature, 2018
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky's realist oil on mylar animal miniature, "Egret," 2018, depicts an Egret preening itself, its neck arched elegantly as it reaches for its furthest wings. The bird's bril...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Oil
Merrymaking
Located in New Orleans, LA
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Barbecue Nation
Located in New Orleans, LA
artwork dimensions (unframed): 59h x 41w inches
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM’s drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing simil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Dish
Located in New Orleans, LA
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM’s drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Sweet Tea
Located in New Orleans, LA
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM’s drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Lola I
Located in New Orleans, LA
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM’s drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Three Tier
Located in New Orleans, LA
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM’s drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
The Whole Pie
Located in New Orleans, LA
artwork dimensions (unframed): 35.5h x 39w inches
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM’s drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty. As a Georgia native, Graham’s work seeks to understand the ways in which pattern and printed textiles are informed by social and political movements. Her narratives are tightly bound to antebellum traditions while balancing the changing ideals of the new generation of southern society.
Graham received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BFA from Florida State University. She has exhibited nationally in both group and solo exhibitions including the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art. She has also been a visiting artist at Tulane University and Valdosta State University. In 2016, Graham was awarded a fellowship and residency at the Ucross Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center. Graham is currently living and making work in Tucson, AZ.
STATEMENT
Firmly grounded in America’s expansive colonial history, my work interrogates how Southern culture has been idealized as “quintessential America” and the bedrock of traditional American values. Using my familiarity and position within Southern culture, I have created a new visual literacy to demonstrate how America’s nostalgia for tradition has been manipulated in an effort to isolate and disenfranchise. My drawings act as a visual archive of research that examines the consequences of American colonialism and addresses the sense of white fragility that continues to pervade Western culture. In the midst of widespread anxiety over the collective American identity, there has been a revival of many of the country’s unresolved historical battles, including contentious race relations, sexism, nativism, and an ever-growing wage gap. I employ the Americana aesthetic of the old South to parallel historical and contemporary acts of resistance to racial, economic, and gender diversity. Borrowing directly from the decorative arts, the meticulously hand-cut mylar and equally intricate drawing capitalizes on America’s propensity for nostalgia to lure the viewer into confronting injustices through the detached lens of that which has already happened.
Through a combination of appropriated and invented imagery, my work contextually constructs contemporary accounts of systemic marginalization, executed under the guise of leisure, embellishment and luxury. The dense visual language invites investigation into the textured surfaces and leads the viewer to reflect on the social textures of contemporary culture while questioning their own complicity in current social constructs. Sourcing from period- specific textiles, turn-of-the-century advertisements, campaign posters, and found family photographs, the collaged images create a singular narrative composition that document the cyclical and systemic nature of marginalization in America. The methodology with which the drawings are constructed echoes historical layers of rules, regulations and hierarchies that are stitched into dominant white American myths. The resulting drawings are indexical in nature, recording the parallels between topics of current debate and 18th century Western expansionism.
The disconnect between the delicate nature of the work and the unresolved cultural tensions that it reveals provides a visual record of the inconsistencies of American idealism. My current project explores the South as the embodiment of America’s pastoral traditions and values that are at the center of the “Make America Great Again” movement, a movement which has both exploited and is at odds with a social ideal that simultaneously proclaims itself to be “post- racial” and “post- gender” while identifying with a “pull-yourself-up-by-the-boot-straps” mentality. As one of the earliest colonized areas, the South is often portrayed as a region of racial and gender stability in the face of impending change. I am currently working with research institutions in the South to further understand how the architectural structure of the Southern plantation...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Low Front I
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: ink on hand-cut mylar
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with aut...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Donut Dollies
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artwork dimensions (without frame): 60h x 40w inches
During World War II an the Vietnam War, women were encouraged to volunteer to travel to war zones through the Red Cross. They w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Plaything
Located in New Orleans, LA
Plaything, 20”x20”, Ink on Hand-Cut Mylar, 2018
This piece focuses on America's cultural appropriation and exploitation of Mexican culture. Living in the desert Southwest...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Dorothy
Located in New Orleans, LA
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Mixed Media, Ink
Natural Lure
Located in New Orleans, LA
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM’s drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty. As a Georgia native, Graham’s work seeks to understand the ways in which pattern and printed textiles are informed by social and political movements. Her narratives are tightly bound to antebellum traditions while balancing the changing ideals of the new generation of southern society.
Graham received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BFA from Florida State University. She has exhibited nationally in both group and solo exhibitions including the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art. She has also been a visiting artist at Tulane University and Valdosta State University. In 2016, Graham was awarded a fellowship and residency at the Ucross Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center. Graham is currently living and making work in Tucson, AZ.
STATEMENT
Firmly grounded in America’s expansive colonial history, my work interrogates how Southern culture has been idealized as “quintessential America” and the bedrock of traditional American values. Using my familiarity and position within Southern culture, I have created a new visual literacy to demonstrate how America’s nostalgia for tradition has been manipulated in an effort to isolate and disenfranchise. My drawings act as a visual archive of research that examines the consequences of American colonialism and addresses the sense of white fragility that continues to pervade Western culture. In the midst of widespread anxiety over the collective American identity, there has been a revival of many of the country’s unresolved historical battles, including contentious race relations, sexism, nativism, and an ever-growing wage gap. I employ the Americana aesthetic of the old South to parallel historical and contemporary acts of resistance to racial, economic, and gender diversity. Borrowing directly from the decorative arts, the meticulously hand-cut mylar and equally intricate drawing capitalizes on America’s propensity for nostalgia to lure the viewer into confronting injustices through the detached lens of that which has already happened.
Through a combination of appropriated and invented imagery, my work contextually constructs contemporary accounts of systemic marginalization, executed under the guise of leisure, embellishment and luxury. The dense visual language invites investigation into the textured surfaces and leads the viewer to reflect on the social textures of contemporary culture while questioning their own complicity in current social constructs. Sourcing from period- specific textiles, turn-of-the-century advertisements, campaign posters, and found family photographs, the collaged images create a singular narrative composition that document the cyclical and systemic nature of marginalization in America. The methodology with which the drawings are constructed echoes historical layers of rules, regulations and hierarchies that are stitched into dominant white American myths. The resulting drawings are indexical in nature, recording the parallels between topics of current debate and 18th century Western expansionism.
The disconnect between the delicate nature of the work and the unresolved cultural tensions that it reveals provides a visual record of the inconsistencies of American idealism. My current project explores the South as the embodiment of America’s pastoral traditions and values that are at the center of the “Make America Great Again” movement, a movement which has both exploited and is at odds with a social ideal that simultaneously proclaims itself to be “post- racial” and “post- gender” while identifying with a “pull-yourself-up-by-the-boot-straps” mentality. As one of the earliest colonized areas, the South is often portrayed as a region of racial and gender stability in the face of impending change. I am currently working with research institutions in the South to further understand how the architectural structure of the Southern plantation...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Cherry / Silver / Lace
Located in New Orleans, LA
artwork dimensions (unframed): 20h x 14w inches
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM’s drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty. As a Georgia native, Graham’s work seeks to understand the ways in which pattern and printed textiles are informed by social and political movements. Her narratives are tightly bound to antebellum traditions while balancing the changing ideals of the new generation of southern society.
Graham received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BFA from Florida State University. She has exhibited nationally in both group and solo exhibitions including the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art. She has also been a visiting artist at Tulane University and Valdosta State University. In 2016, Graham was awarded a fellowship and residency at the Ucross Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center. Graham is currently living and making work in Tucson, AZ.
STATEMENT
Firmly grounded in America’s expansive colonial history, my work interrogates how Southern culture has been idealized as “quintessential America” and the bedrock of traditional American values. Using my familiarity and position within Southern culture, I have created a new visual literacy to demonstrate how America’s nostalgia for tradition has been manipulated in an effort to isolate and disenfranchise. My drawings act as a visual archive of research that examines the consequences of American colonialism and addresses the sense of white fragility that continues to pervade Western culture. In the midst of widespread anxiety over the collective American identity, there has been a revival of many of the country’s unresolved historical battles, including contentious race relations, sexism, nativism, and an ever-growing wage gap. I employ the Americana aesthetic of the old South to parallel historical and contemporary acts of resistance to racial, economic, and gender diversity. Borrowing directly from the decorative arts, the meticulously hand-cut mylar and equally intricate drawing capitalizes on America’s propensity for nostalgia to lure the viewer into confronting injustices through the detached lens of that which has already happened.
Through a combination of appropriated and invented imagery, my work contextually constructs contemporary accounts of systemic marginalization, executed under the guise of leisure, embellishment and luxury. The dense visual language invites investigation into the textured surfaces and leads the viewer to reflect on the social textures of contemporary culture while questioning their own complicity in current social constructs. Sourcing from period- specific textiles, turn-of-the-century advertisements, campaign posters, and found family photographs, the collaged images create a singular narrative composition that document the cyclical and systemic nature of marginalization in America. The methodology with which the drawings are constructed echoes historical layers of rules, regulations and hierarchies that are stitched into dominant white American myths. The resulting drawings are indexical in nature, recording the parallels between topics of current debate and 18th century Western expansionism.
The disconnect between the delicate nature of the work and the unresolved cultural tensions that it reveals provides a visual record of the inconsistencies of American idealism. My current project explores the South as the embodiment of America’s pastoral traditions and values that are at the center of the “Make America Great Again” movement, a movement which has both exploited and is at odds with a social ideal that simultaneously proclaims itself to be “post- racial” and “post- gender” while identifying with a “pull-yourself-up-by-the-boot-straps” mentality. As one of the earliest colonized areas, the South is often portrayed as a region of racial and gender stability in the face of impending change. I am currently working with research institutions in the South to further understand how the architectural structure of the Southern plantation...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Low Front IV
Located in New Orleans, LA
[Tucson, AZ ::: b. 1987, Atlanta, GA]
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Lithotomy
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: ink on hand-cut mylar
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with aut...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Jane
Located in New Orleans, LA
artwork dimensions (without frame): 33h x 45w x 6d inches
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Mixed Media, Ink
P.O.P. (Piece of Pie)
Located in New Orleans, LA
artwork dimensions (unframed): 15h x 20w inches
LAURA TANNER GRAHAM’s drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty. As a Georgia native, Graham’s work seeks to understand the ways in which pattern and printed textiles are informed by social and political movements. Her narratives are tightly bound to antebellum traditions while balancing the changing ideals of the new generation of southern society.
Graham received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BFA from Florida State University. She has exhibited nationally in both group and solo exhibitions including the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art. She has also been a visiting artist at Tulane University and Valdosta State University. In 2016, Graham was awarded a fellowship and residency at the Ucross Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center. Graham is currently living and making work in Tucson, AZ.
STATEMENT
Firmly grounded in America’s expansive colonial history, my work interrogates how Southern culture has been idealized as “quintessential America” and the bedrock of traditional American values. Using my familiarity and position within Southern culture, I have created a new visual literacy to demonstrate how America’s nostalgia for tradition has been manipulated in an effort to isolate and disenfranchise. My drawings act as a visual archive of research that examines the consequences of American colonialism and addresses the sense of white fragility that continues to pervade Western culture. In the midst of widespread anxiety over the collective American identity, there has been a revival of many of the country’s unresolved historical battles, including contentious race relations, sexism, nativism, and an ever-growing wage gap. I employ the Americana aesthetic of the old South to parallel historical and contemporary acts of resistance to racial, economic, and gender diversity. Borrowing directly from the decorative arts, the meticulously hand-cut mylar and equally intricate drawing capitalizes on America’s propensity for nostalgia to lure the viewer into confronting injustices through the detached lens of that which has already happened.
Through a combination of appropriated and invented imagery, my work contextually constructs contemporary accounts of systemic marginalization, executed under the guise of leisure, embellishment and luxury. The dense visual language invites investigation into the textured surfaces and leads the viewer to reflect on the social textures of contemporary culture while questioning their own complicity in current social constructs. Sourcing from period- specific textiles, turn-of-the-century advertisements, campaign posters, and found family photographs, the collaged images create a singular narrative composition that document the cyclical and systemic nature of marginalization in America. The methodology with which the drawings are constructed echoes historical layers of rules, regulations and hierarchies that are stitched into dominant white American myths. The resulting drawings are indexical in nature, recording the parallels between topics of current debate and 18th century Western expansionism.
The disconnect between the delicate nature of the work and the unresolved cultural tensions that it reveals provides a visual record of the inconsistencies of American idealism. My current project explores the South as the embodiment of America’s pastoral traditions and values that are at the center of the “Make America Great Again” movement, a movement which has both exploited and is at odds with a social ideal that simultaneously proclaims itself to be “post- racial” and “post- gender” while identifying with a “pull-yourself-up-by-the-boot-straps” mentality. As one of the earliest colonized areas, the South is often portrayed as a region of racial and gender stability in the face of impending change. I am currently working with research institutions in the South to further understand how the architectural structure of the Southern plantation...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Dead Eye #1
Located in New Orleans, LA
artwork dimensions (unframed): 37.5h x 13.5w inches
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Dead Eye #2
Located in New Orleans, LA
artwork dimensions (unframed): 37.5h x 13.5w inches
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Info-Red Infra-Structure
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: ink on hand-cut mylar
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with aut...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Sweet Milk
Located in New Orleans, LA
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Sweet and Salty
Located in New Orleans, LA
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Peachtree Battle
Located in New Orleans, LA
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
On the Hunt
Located in New Orleans, LA
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with authors such as Flannery O’Connor ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Storm Series 66
Located in Fairfield, CT
Jaanika Peerna is an Estonian-born artist living and working primarily in New York since 1998 as well as in Berlin and Tallinn. Her work encompasses drawing, video, installation and performance, often dealing with the theme of transitions in light, air, water and other natural phenomena. She is often involved in collaborative projects working with designers, dancers and musicians. She has exhibited her work extensively in the entire New York metropolitan area as well as in Berlin, Paris, Tallinn, Helsinki, Venice, Rome, Dubai, Sydney, and Moscow. Her work is in numerous private collections in the US and Europe and was recently acquired by Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris. Her work is represented in the United States by ARC Fine Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Graphite, Mylar
Hive No. 5, Dandelion (from "Wildman Series")
Located in New York, NY
This is an artwork by Zachari Logan.
Hive No. 5, Dandelion (from “Wildman Series”)
2023
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
Blue pencil on Mylar
12 x 9 inches
Contact g...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
Bouquet (Avian), from Enigmas
Located in New York, NY
This is a drawing in blue color pencil on Mylar by Zachari Logan, depicting a bouquet of feathers.
Bouquet (Avian), from Enigmas
c. 2023
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
Pomegranate, Veneto, 2017, Contemporary Colored Pencil Drawing by Zachari Logan
Located in New York, NY
This contemporary drawing of a hand reaching for a pomegranate in a tree by Zachari Logan is made with colored pencil on Mylar.
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
Water No. 1, after Tom, Self Portrait by Zachari Logan, Blue Pencil on Mylar
Located in New York, NY
This is a drawing and self portrait by Zachari Logan in blue colored pencil on Mylar of the artist nude and submerged in a body of water.
This is a drawing made with blue colored pencil on Mylar of a nude man with long dark hair in water up to his thighs surrounded by branches.
Water No. 2, After Tom
2022
Accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
Colored pencil on Mylar
7.5 x 5.25 inches
“This drawing is a tribute to Tom of Finland, whose work has long-influenced my own in relation to drawing, the construction of space, and self-portraiture. In Finland’s compositions, images of men in the landscape—logging, foresting, and relaxing (together, naked, clothed, alone, in pairs and in groups) had a profound effect on my own thinking about the queer body represented. I see no separation between land and body—we are nature. The queer body is not unnatural (that is a false dichotomy, often espoused by religious and conservative world views). Finland’s renderings of bodies in nature are for me a rupture of the largely European tradition of only representing male nudity...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
Bones, Stems, Petals, Leaves (Pool Series)
Located in New York, NY
Zachari Logan “Bones, Stems, Petals, Leaves (Pool Series)”
2022
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
Blue pencil on mylar
60 x 24 inches
Con...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
Limb No. 1, Ghost Meadow
Located in New York, NY
Zachari Logan “Limb No. 1, Ghost Meadow”
2022
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
Blue pencil on mylar
9 x 7.5 inches (22.9 x 19.1 cm)
Cont...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
Torso No. 2, Cranach (from the “Imaginary Europeans” Series)
Located in New York, NY
Torso No. 2, Cranach (from the “Imaginary Europeans” Series)
2017
Blue pencil on Mylar
12 x 10 inches (30.5 x 25.4 cm)
Contact gallery for price.
This work is offered by CLAMP in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
Foot No. 1 (from the “Wildflower” Series)
Located in New York, NY
Foot No. 1 (from the “Wildflower” Series)
2017
Blue pencil on Mylar
6.5 x 6 inches (16.5 x 15.2 cm)
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
Hand No. 1 (from the “Wildflower” Series)
Located in New York, NY
Hand No. 1 (from the “Wildflower” Series)
2017
Blue pencil on Mylar
6 x 6.25 inches (15.2 x 15.9 cm)
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
Torso No. 3 (from the “Imaginary Europeans” Series)
Located in New York, NY
Torso No. 3 (from the “Imaginary Europeans” Series)
2017
Blue pencil on Mylar
8 x 6.5 inches (20.3 x 16.5 cm)
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
Torso No. 1 (from the “Imaginary Europeans” Series)
Located in New York, NY
Torso No. 1 (from the “Imaginary Europeans” Series)
2017
Blue pencil on Mylar
28 x 25 inches (71.1 x 63.5 cm)
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
Falls of Solitude 6
Located in Fairfield, CT
Jaanika Peerna is an Estonian-born artist living and working primarily in New York since 1998 as well as in Berlin and Tallinn. Her work encompasses drawing, video, installation and performance, often dealing with the theme of transitions in light, air, water and other natural phenomena. She is often involved in collaborative projects working with designers, dancers and musicians. She has exhibited her work extensively in the entire New York metropolitan area as well as in Berlin, Paris, Tallinn, Helsinki, Venice, Rome, Dubai, Sydney, and Moscow. Her work is in numerous private collections in the US and Europe and was recently acquired by Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris. Her work is represented in the United States by ARC Fine Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Graphite, Mylar
Falls of Solitude 5
Located in Fairfield, CT
Jaanika Peerna works at the crossroads of digital and traditional media, often dealing with the themes of water, simplicity and silence. She has an MFA in intermedia design from SUN...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Graphite, Mylar
Falls of Solitude 7
Located in Fairfield, CT
Jaanika Peerna is an Estonian-born artist living and working primarily in New York since 1998 as well as in Berlin and Tallinn. Her work encompasses drawing, video, installation and performance, often dealing with the theme of transitions in light, air, water and other natural phenomena. She is often involved in collaborative projects working with designers, dancers and musicians. She has exhibited her work extensively in the entire New York metropolitan area as well as in Berlin, Paris, Tallinn, Helsinki, Venice, Rome, Dubai, Sydney, and Moscow. Her work is in numerous private collections in the US and Europe and was recently acquired by Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris. Her work is represented in the United States by ARC Fine Art...
Category
Contemporary Mylar Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Graphite, Mylar
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