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Style: Contemporary
Style: Abstract
Medium: Plastic
Potential- abstract geometric holographic light drawing on wood panel
Located in New York, NY
James Minden
potential
Holographic drawing- Hand incised plastic and acrylic on panel
24 x 24 inches
2017
To get a sense of the holographic effect look at the video on that vimeo's ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Place- abstract geometric holographic light drawing on wood panel
Located in New York, NY
James Minden
Place
Holographic drawing- Hand incised plastic and acrylic on panel
24 x 24 inches
2013
To get a sense of the holographic effect look at the video on that vimeo's site...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A. 157-014- abstract geometric black and white ink drawing on mylar
Located in New York, NY
abstract geometric black and white ink drawing on mylar framed in white frame
For over twenty years now Patrick Carrara has lived in Brooklyn, where he has maintained a studio and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Archival Ink
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 Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Charcoal
Light Box No. 2614 - electric light emanating wall or table sculpture
Located in Burlingame, CA
Electric, remote controlled wall or table sculpture created with mixed media: LED's, Mi-Ttentes paper & plexiglass from abstract light installation and mixed media artist Sophia Dixo...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Metal
WINDOW V - Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media Painting, shadow, curtains, blue
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
WINDOW V captures the soft patterned shadow of the trees veiled by a sheer curtain. This painting is is part of an on-going series that explores the light and landscape in Tennessee....
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Polyester, Oil, Acrylic, Gouache, Mesh
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 Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
SPINNING PLATES - Circular Landscape Abstract Painting w/ Mid-Century Modern
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Peña’s works range from painting to multimedia installations that question the ever-changing psychological landscape of America; asking the viewer to re-examine their perceptions of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
PVC, Acrylic, Watercolor
$2,400 Sale Price
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Light Box No. 2605 - electric light emanating wall or table sculpture
Located in Burlingame, CA
Electric, remote controlled wall or table sculpture created with mixed media: LED's, Mi-Ttentes paper & plexiglass from abstract light installation and mixed media artist Sophia Dixo...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Metal
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 Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Charcoal
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 Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
A Memory Of What Was Said
Located in New York, NY
This unique work of ink on paper is framed in a black frame with Anti Reflective glass. It is currently on exhibition at the Hearst foundation building in Manhattan as part of the Ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Ink, Acrylic, ABS
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 Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
White Love - Original Digital Photograph and Drawing on Plastic - 2016
Located in Roma, IT
White Love is an original artwork realized by the Italian contemporary artwork Nicolantonio Mucciaccia in 2016.
Mixed media (drawing and digital photo) on plastic mirrored support.
A...
Category
2010s Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Rubber
What a B***h? - Original Digital Photograph and Drawing on Plastic - 2011
Located in Roma, IT
What a B***h (Che stronzetta) is an original artwork realized by the Italian contemporary artist Nicolantonio Mucciaccia in 2011.
Mixed media (drawing and digital photo) on plastic m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Rubber
What is an Alien? - Original Digital Photograph and Drawing on Plastic - 2011
Located in Roma, IT
What is an Alien? is an original artwork realized by the Italian contemporary artist Nicolantonio Mucciaccia in 2011.
Mixed media on plastic and rubber. Frame included.
Perfect condi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Rubber
Bla Bla Bla - Original Digital Photograph and Drawing on Plastic - 2011
Located in Roma, IT
Bla Bla Bla is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Nicolantonio Mucciaccia in 2011.
Drawing and digital photograph on plastic support.
Frame...
Category
2010s Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic
SHIZEN SERIES I
By Kim Fonder
Located in Tulsa, OK
Kim Fonder, SHIZEN SERIES I, Mixed Media on Handmade Paper with Plexi, 12.00 X 12.00 in, $600.00, Blue
White, Abstract, works on paper
Kim Fonder loves texture and touch. Her painti...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper
Thaw 14 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Thaw 14 (Abstract drawing)
Color Pencil and Graphite on Mylar. Unframed.
Thaw Series is a group of drawings where the artist continues her work touching upon environmental matters...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Color Pencil, Graphite
Ablation Zone 6 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Ablation Zone 6 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment And Ice on Yupo. Unframed.
Ablation is a series of drawings that extend the Blue Melt approach into large, long, excessively vertical wo...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Pigment
SHIZEN SERIES IV
By Kim Fonder
Located in Tulsa, OK
Kim Fonder, SHIZEN SERIES IV, 12.00 X 12.00 in, $600.00, purple, Abstract, contemporary, fine art
Kim Fonder loves texture and touch. Her paintings and furniture reflect her infatua...
Category
2010s Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Pastel, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper
SHIZEN SERIES II
By Kim Fonder
Located in Tulsa, OK
Kim Fonder, SHIZEN SERIES II, Mixed Media on Handmade Paper , 12.00 X 12.00 in, $600.00, Blue, Red, Pink, White, Abstract, contemporary, fine art
Kim Fonder loves texture and touch....
Category
2010s Contemporary Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper
Storm Horizontal 82 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Storm Horizontal 82 (Abstract drawing)
Graphite and color pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
So many different storms, so hard to capture.
Beginning in the wake of hurricanes Irene and S...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil, Graphite
Maelstrom Series 67 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Maelstrom Series 67 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
The Maelstrom Series include the most iconic and known of Peerna's works.
Starting from the center on ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
Screech of ice series 41 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Screech of ice series 41 (Abstract drawing)
Colored pencil and graphite on plastic paper. Unframed.
Screech of Ice is a new series of drawings made by holding a bunch of pencils in...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Tipping Point #7 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Tipping Point #7 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar - Unframed.
This work is from a series titled Tipping Point. This drawing has been created eyes closed. It captures an a...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
Screech of ice series 43 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Screech of ice series 43 (Abstract drawing)
Colored pencil and graphite on plastic paper. Unframed.
Screech of Ice is a new series of drawings made by holding a bunch of pencils in...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Storm Series (Ref 844) (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Storm Series (Ref 844) (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
So many different storms, so hard to capture.
Beginning in the wake of hurricanes Irene and Sandy, th...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
Big Melt #10 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Big Melt #10 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil and water on mylar - Unframed.
This work is from a series titled Big Melt. It has been created with pigment pencils and ice. It captu...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
Tipping Point #7 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Tipping Point #7 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar - Unframed.
This work is from a series titled Tipping Point. This drawing has been created eyes closed. It captures an a...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
Storm series (ref. 845) (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Storm series (ref. 845) (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
So many different storms, so hard to capture.
Beginning in the wake of hurricanes Irene and Sandy, t...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
Maelstrom Series 77 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Maelstrom Series 77 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar - Unframed
The Maelstrom Series include the most iconic and known of Peerna's works.
Starting from the center on a...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
Maelstrom Series 67 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Maelstrom Series 67 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
The Maelstrom Series include the most iconic and known of Peerna's works.
Starting from the center on ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
Thaw 3 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Thaw 3 (Abstract drawing)
Graphite and colored pencil on two layers of plastic paper. Unframed.
Thaw Series is a new series of drawings where the artist continues her work touchin...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Color Pencil, Graphite
Storm Series (Ref 844) (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Storm Series (Ref 844) (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
So many different storms, so hard to capture.
Beginning in the wake of hurricanes Irene and Sandy, th...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
Screech of ice series 43 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Screech of ice series 43 (Abstract drawing)
Colored pencil and graphite on plastic paper. Unframed.
Screech of Ice is a new series of drawings made by holding a bunch of pencils in...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Big Melt #10 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Big Melt #10 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil and water on mylar - Unframed.
This work is from a series titled Big Melt. It has been created with pigment pencils and ice. It captu...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
Storm series (ref. 845) (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Storm series (ref. 845) (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
So many different storms, so hard to capture.
Beginning in the wake of hurricanes Irene and Sandy, t...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
Storm series (ref. 845) (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Storm series (ref. 845) (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
So many different storms, so hard to capture.
Beginning in the wake of hurricanes Irene and Sandy, t...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
Maelstrom Series 77 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Maelstrom Series 77 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar - Unframed
The Maelstrom Series include the most iconic and known of Peerna's works.
Starting from the center on a...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
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 Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Storm Series (Ref 844) (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
So many different storms, so hard to capture.
Beginning in the wake of hurricanes Irene and Sandy, this artwork was made by tightly clasping a s...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
Big Melt #16 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Pigment pencil and water on mylar - Unframed.
This work is from a series titled Big Melt. It has been created with pigment pencils and ice. It captures the moment when solid is turn...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
Small maelstrom (Ref 855) (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Pigment pencil on Mylar - Unframed.
The Maelstrom Series include the most iconic and known of Peerna's works.
Starting from the center on a tilted table, she extends her fingers ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
Tipping Point #7 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Pigment pencil on Mylar - Unframed.
This work is from a series titled Tipping Point. This drawing has been created eyes closed. It captures an accumulation of marks made by the arti...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
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 Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Thaw 3 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Graphite and colored pencil on two layers of plastic paper. Unframed.
Thaw Series is a new series of drawings where the artist continues her work touching upon environmental matter...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Color Pencil, Graphite
Maelstrom Series 77 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Pigment pencil on Mylar - Unframed
The Maelstrom Series include the most iconic and known of Peerna's works.
Starting from the center on a tilted table, she extends her fingers t...
Category
2010s Abstract Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
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 Plastic 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 Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Blue eyes- abstract geometric holographic light drawing on wood panel
Located in New York, NY
James Minden
Blue Eyes
Holographic drawing- Hand incised plastic and acrylic on panel
48 x 24 inches
2017
To get a sense of the holographic effect look at the video on that vimeo's ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Acrylic, Wood Panel
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 Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
A.121-013- abstract geometric black and white ink drawing on mylar
Located in New York, NY
abstract geometric black and white ink drawing on mylar framed in white frame
For over twenty years now Patrick Carrara has lived in Brooklyn, where he has maintained a studio and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Archival Ink
A.103-013- abstract geometric black ink drawing on mylar
Located in New York, NY
abstract geometric black and white ink drawing on mylar framed in white frame
For over twenty years now Patrick Carrara has lived in Brooklyn, where he has maintained a studio and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Archival Ink
A. 161-014- abstract geometric black and white ink drawing on mylar
Located in New York, NY
Abstract geometric black and white ink drawing on mylar framed in white wood frame with UV Plexiglass.
For over twenty years now Patrick Carrara has lived in Brooklyn, where he has m...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Mylar, Archival 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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Plastic 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Plastic 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 Plastic 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 Plastic 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 Plastic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Ink
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