Art by Medium: Mylar

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

medium: ink drawing and thread on hand-cut mylar Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing sim...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Worry, Original Contemporary Abstract Painting, 2020 11" x 8.5" (HxW) Alcohol Ink on Yupo Paper This is a powerful and emotive work by artist KC Pollak. Though an abstraction, the m...

Take It Or leave It is a life size sculpture constructed of mylar over an aluminum frame. Sculptor William King is widely renowned for his signature flattened and stilt-legged figu...

A diptych painting by Charles Fine. "Fieldmarks (0168)" is a set of two, abstract, oil, ink, asphatum on mylar on linen on paper paintings executed in a palette primarily of greens, ...

Large Abstract Painting "Springtide" by Alex K Mason. Unframed, Acrylic, Gouache on Yupo Mylar, 60"H 50.25"W. Blues, Greens, Browns, White, 2022 This is a painting on Yupo paper, w...

Artwork by artist Kayo Shido. Shido’s work is a testament to the incredible talent found across the five boroughs of New York City. The city’s hidden corners are brimming with promi...

Artwork by artist Kayo Shido. Shido’s work is a testament to the incredible talent found across the five boroughs of New York City. The city’s hidden corners are brimming with promi...

Artwork by artist Kayo Shido. Shido’s work is a testament to the incredible talent found across the five boroughs of New York City. The city’s hidden corners are brimming with promi...

Mixed media piece on mylar by artist Kayo Shido. Shido’s work is a testament to the incredible talent found across the five boroughs of New York City. The city’s hidden corners are ...

A contemporary piece by New York based artist Kayo Shido.

A contemporary piece by New York based artist Kayo Shido.

A contemporary piece by New York based artist Kayo Shido.

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...

This contemporary drawing of a hand reaching for a pomegranate in a tree by Zachari Logan is made with colored pencil on Mylar.

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...

Brought up in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Heidi Jung as an artist has naturally been drawn to a subject matter most timeless and familiar to her.Through draught...

Brought up in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Heidi Jung as an artist has naturally been drawn to a subject matter most timeless and familiar to her.Through draught...

Edition of 9 Eric Fischl’s extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. ...

Zachari Logan “Bones, Stems, Petals, Leaves (Pool Series)” 2022 Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity Blue pencil on mylar 60 x 24 inches Con...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Edition of 9 Eric Fischl’s extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. ...