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Medium: Archival Paper
Ice Showers
By Nancy Baker
Located in New York, NY
paint and mixed media on cut paper
9"x 9" (available framed)
Nancy Baker creates detailed paper constructions by combining hand and laser cut geometric forms based loosely on mac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Mixed Media
Cut Work: 'Blue Taupe Circle Out'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen’s Cut Work series is a free hand paper cutting process that charts the contours of our ever-changing emotional experience through the movement of form, line, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Adhesive, Archival Paper
Cut Work: 'Blue Taupe Circle In'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen’s Cut Work series is a free hand paper cutting process that charts the contours of our ever-changing emotional experience through the movement of form, line, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Adhesive, Archival Paper
Cut Work: 'Blue Grey Circle-In'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen’s Cut Work series is a free hand paper cutting process that charts the contours of our ever-changing emotional experience through the movement of form, line, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Adhesive, Archival Paper
Cut Work: "Blue Grey Circle Out'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen’s Cut Work series is a free hand paper cutting process that charts the contours of our ever-changing emotional experience through the movement of form, line, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Adhesive, Archival Paper
Cut Work: 'Blue Grey-in'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen’s Cut Work series is a free hand paper cutting process that charts the contours of our ever-changing emotional experience through the movement of form, line, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Adhesive, Archival Paper
Peaceful Buddha Red Woven
By RISK
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Acrylic, Aerosol, Crushed Abalone, Surfboard Resin on Hand-Woven Strips of Coventry Rag Archival Paper
Buddha, Buddha Art, Peaceful Art, Monarch Butterfly,...
Category
2010s Street Art Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Resin, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Archival Paper
$19,960 Sale Price
20% Off
Ghost in the Land
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Paper, Magazine Paper
Censored II
Located in Boca Raton, FL
48 x 48 inch framed + $2,000
New York-based, Armenian-born artist, Tigran Tsitoghdzyan, is especially interested in how people interact in this new era of technology and social media. His “Mirrors” series suggest a close examination of self, and yet hands held to the face shield...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Footprints
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Captain Cook’s Legacy
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Paper, Magazine Paper
Into Mystery Land
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Paper, Magazine Paper
Territory Over Land
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Paper, Magazine Paper
No Such Border
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Paper, Magazine Paper
They Surveyed the Mountain Peak as a Philosophical
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Paper, Magazine Paper
Anna Balance #1, smoke on paper, elegant custom contemporary box frame
By Rob Tarbell
Located in Dallas, TX
Anna Balance # 1, smoke on paper, framed on a contemporary box frame - all archival materials.
Artwork size: 44x30 inches
Frame size: 52x37x2.5 inche...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
$2,720 Sale Price
20% Off
Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Composition No.318
Located in Paris, IDF
Indian ink on archival paper - artwork can be shipped in a tube or framed in a crate
Category
2010s Abstract Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
India Ink, Archival Paper
$720 Sale Price
34% Off
'Daughter of the Dark' - contemporary abstract portrait - mixed media - impasto
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Daughter of the Dark" features hues of black, yellow and orange.
30 by 23.5 inches framed
Sachi Rome is inspired by the works of Gerhard Richter, Deborah Dancy, Ed Clark, M. Florin...
Category
2010s Abstract Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Infestations Vertical 1 : abstract work of art on paper
Located in New York, NY
An artwork on paper by New York artist Miranda Maher. Black archival ink on pale blue archival paper with historical Audubon images of American birds, mo...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Stag
Located in Bozeman, MT
"By placing figures into fantastical landscapes, I allow the viewer a glimpse into what might be reality, or not. This practice allows me to push the boundaries of what a past/presen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
$2,650
A Place In Time 12 X 16 Acrylic and Grout on paper
By José Castro
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A Place in Time 12 x 16 – Mixed media: Acrylic paint and grout on paper
Canson acid-free canvas paper
Protected with UV-resistant, matte varnish coating
Jose Castro was born in Mata...
Category
2010s Abstract Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Portrait of an African - Collage
Located in Miami, FL
Mixed media on paper, 1990, signed 'Ivan Chermayeff' and dated lower right, titled lower left.
30 x 22 in. (sheet), 36 x 28 in. (frame).
Provenance:The artist, Art Planning Consult...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Infestations Vertical 2 : abstract work of art on paper
Located in New York, NY
An artwork on paper by New York artist Miranda Maher. Black archival ink on pale blue archival paper with historical Audubon images of American birds, mounted on Arches paper.
Miran...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
"$4.20" by Charles Patrick with Mixed Media Butterflies
Located in Greenwich, CT
This work is sourced directly from the artist.
Butterflies cut from $2 bills, arranged in the shape of a pot leaf, and pinned with stainless steel entomology ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Plexiglass, Wood, Paint, Paper, Acrylic, Pins, Archival Paper
She’s Come Undone from the Chasing the Fog:Learning How to Breathe Series
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment prints from a scanned polaroid, taken with a vintage SX70 Polaroid camera
Available in various sizes
Chasing the Fog :: Learning how to Breathe is an exploration of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Thread, Acrylic, Archival Paper
WOP 2 - 00647
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches
signed, dated and titled on lower right
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category
2010s Romantic Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
WOP 2 - 00649
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches
signed, dated and titled on lower right
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category
2010s Romantic Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
WOP 2 - 00653
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches
signed, dated and titled on lower right
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category
2010s Romantic Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
WOP 2 - 00629
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light i...
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
WOP 2 - 00628
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light i...
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
WOP 2 - 00624
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light i...
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
WOP 2 - 00621
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light i...
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
WOP 2 - 00669
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
signed lower right
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated wi...
Category
2010s Color-Field Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
WOP 2 - 00668
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
signed lower right
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated wi...
Category
2010s Minimalist Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
WOP 2 - 00667
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
signed lower right
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated wi...
Category
2010s Minimalist Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Strata Rift
By Teri Brudnak
Located in Boston, MA
Artist commentary:
This piece is from a series about geological time and the layers that record it in the earth.
Words that describe the piece: geology ,stone, layers, gold
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Media Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
Infestation Horizontal 1 : abstract work of art on paper
Located in New York, NY
An artwork on paper by New York artist Miranda Maher. Black archival ink on pale blue archival paper with historical Audubon images of American birds, mo...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink, Archival Paper
Flowers in the Multiverse
By Teri Brudnak
Located in Boston, MA
Artist commentary:
Flowers do grow in the Multiverse! But they only show their shapes as negative space.
Words that describe the piece: colorful, flowers, bold, expressive
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Media Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
Psychic Garden (Protea) - botanical - cyanotype - ethereal - colorful
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is an abstract botanical work on paper featuring hues of blue, tan, pink, green and white in a simple white box frame behind UV Plexiglas.
Caroline Bullock is inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, Anish Kapoor, Katharina Grosse, Andy Goldsworthy and Lucy Dodd...
Category
2010s Abstract Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Glitter, Acrylic, Archival Paper
African with Brian's Note
Located in Miami, FL
Mixed media on paper, 1990, signed 'Ivan Chermayeff' and dated lower right, titled lower left.
30 x 22 in. (sheet), 36 x 28 in. (frame).
Provenance:The artist, Art Planning Consult...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Dimond Carpet Green Abstract on Paper
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Diamond Carpet Green Abstract On Paper
Mixed Media on Paper
Malgosia Kiernozycka was born in Wroclaw, Poland. She graduated high school at the School of Fine Arts and received a scho...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Diving In The Blue Abstract On Paper
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Diving In The Blue Abstract On Paper
2023
Mixed Media on Paper
Malgosia Kiernozycka was born in Wroclaw, Poland. She graduated high school at the School of Fine Arts and received a ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Prayer
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Prayer 2018
Pencil signed, title and dated.
Joanna Salska was born in Poland and received her MFA from Warsaw Academy of Fine Art. She is a painter and i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
I Am EWxited
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
I Am EWxited 2018
Pencil signed, title and dated.
Joanna Salska was born in Poland and received her MFA from Warsaw Academy of Fine Art. She is a painter...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
TRAPEZE
By Lisa Weiss
Located in Tulsa, OK
Lisa Weiss, TRAPEZE, Mixed Media, 13.00 X 17.00 in, $800.00, Grey, Blue, Yellow
Lisa Weiss’ work is about mark making, patterning, spontaneous movement, momentary awareness and pari...
Category
2010s Abstract Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Parallel
By Lisa Weiss
Located in Tulsa, OK
Parallel by artist Lisa Weiss is a contemporary abstract blue, turquoise, grey, and orange mixed media on panel that measures 19 x 30 and is priced at $1,500.
Lisa Weiss’ work is a...
Category
2010s Abstract Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel, Archival Paper
$1,500
"Inwardness #11082021" - digital mixed media photography - Zao Wou-Ki
By Zhou Peng
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Inwardness #11082021" is digital mixed media work featuring green, red, yellow and black hues. The frame dimensions are 22 by 25.75 inches.
Zhou Peng is inspired by the work of CAI...
Category
2010s Abstract Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
'Treading Water in The Deep End #2' - figurative - black & white - Kara Walker
Located in Atlanta, GA
'Treading Water In The Deep End #2' is a black and white figurative work made of cut paper.
Jerushia Graham is inspired by the works of Elizabeth Cat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Paper
"LIPS - L8 GUCCI" Photography 50"D Edition 2/8 by Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"LIPS - L8 GUCCI" Photography 50"D Edition 2/8 by Giuliano Bekor
Edition 2 OF 8
Year created 2017
Print size 50 Inches diameter Trim Bleed
Artwork finish size 50 Inches diameter
M...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Metal
"Marmara Totem" abstract mixed media collage, (blue, red, brown, silver grey)
Located in New York, NY
12"x9" mixed media collage: acrylic, metallic watercolor and papers, ink, collage dressmaking patterns, framing options available.
Linda Ganjian's artwork captivates with its ornat...
Category
2010s Abstract Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Foil
Three Bridges
Located in Fairfield, CT
Burned pieces by Paul Chojnowski.
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Paper
Celtic Three
Located in Belfast, GB
This artwork by Peter Monaghan is an example of his rich talent in creating dynamic multimedia artworks which speak to his rich history in graphic design. The Celtic Three represents...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Paper
Four Figures 985 - Contemporary Art Drawing Collage
Located in New York, NY
In 2000, Linda Stein began a series called Knights of Protection. Her Knights functioned both as defenders in battle and symbols of pacifism.
In 2019, Stein re-conceived her Kni...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Ink
$4,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Turbulence III
Located in Lenox, MA
Turbulence III
64" x 42" Pigment, Graphite and Sumi Ink on Archival Paper
Unique
Framed 67.5" x 46.5": $12,500
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Sumi Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite, Pigment
Turbulence IV
Located in Lenox, MA
Turbulence IV
64" x 42" Pigment, Graphite and Sumi Ink on Archival Paper
Unique
Framed 67.5" x 46.5": $12,500
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Sumi Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite, Pigment
Atoll
By Nancy Baker
Located in New York, NY
paper construction on wood panel
14"x 11" (available unframed)
Nancy Baker creates detailed paper constructions by combining hand and laser cut geometric forms based loosely on m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Paper, Glitter, Paint, Wood Panel
$900
Basket
By Nancy Baker
Located in New York, NY
paper construction on wood panel
9"x 12" (available unframed)
Nancy Baker creates detailed paper constructions by combining hand and laser cut geometric forms based loosely on ma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Paper, Glitter, Mixed Media, Paint
Taking Place
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and sky are tinged a movie musical pale blue and their gear is a bit too colorful for the era of man-hauling. And then there’s the sled, piled high not with boxes of supplies but with a jumbled heap of antiquities: Greek Athenas, bits of a coliseum, a ship’s great wheel. In Jessica Houston’s collage “The Long Haul,” the explorers drag history itself into the great beyond, their backs turned from their absurd load. But we take in the entire scene.
In her suite of works, Over the Edge of the World, Houston uses oil on wood, ink on paper, and collages of found images, many from National Geographic Magazine, to rearrange the evidence – and thus history’s possibilities.
Houston joins visual artists such as Judit Hersko, Katja Aglert, and Isaac Julien who have been inspired by the explorers of the past. Like them, she draws, in part, on the singular tradition of polar exploration narratives as well as fictions such as Ursula Le Guin’s “Sur” (1981), a utopian feminist hoax in which a party of South American women reach the South Pole in 1909, two years before the official arrival of European explorers. Le Guin’s explorers do not feel compelled to leave any written record or physical proof of their presence at the South Pole. If Le Guin’s women might have made it, what other traces have been missed?
Collage can work alongside alternative history: it interprets, interrupts, and rearranges. It questions the completed whole, instead emphasizing composition and relation. Collage suggests it all might be … otherwise. Houston’s collages flaunt their second nature. Yet what they show remains somehow plausible. You want to believe what you’re beginning to see.
In “A life Attuned to Larger Rhythms” Houston grids out rectangles of captured images to overwhelm the eye as the polar environment itself might (whiteout is a paradoxical species of optical overstimulation). Through the strangely ordered confusion of an ice survey grafted atop a chessboard, the mind begins to recognize new connections, emergent shapes: a different future? In “Launching Strategy” a yellow-orange pyramid balances garishly atop a tent. Which came first, the realist tent or the Platonic shape? Can we ever be sure that we’re not already seeing through premade abstractions? Or is it that baggage we’ve been dragging along?
In “Architecture of the Anthropocene” and “Red Blood, Red Earth” Houston reroutes visually symbolic through-lines between women and non-European people and the official history in which they appear dimly or not at all. A full-skirted woman holds onto the tether of a kite that seems to pull her upwards towards a weather balloon floating above an Antarctic base’s radio tower; a row of tropical workers wielding pickaxes folds into the trajectory of a sailor aiming a bow and arrow at an iceberg stained with red. These are not people or images normally associated with polar discovery. But shouldn’t they matter?
“Territory Over Land” strips in a scene from a painted depiction of the tropics, possibly from one of Captain James Cook’s circumnavigations. “Captain Cook’s Legacy” more directly confronts an official portrait of Cook with the torn-in eyes from what can only be described as the explorer’s anonymous dark Other. The hybrid portrait is a kind of contact zone. “Henson and Peary – Past Entanglements” is a cooler, less volatile twin portrait of disputed discoverer of the North Pole Robert Peary...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Drawing in Water
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and sky are tinged a movie musical pale blue and their gear is a bit too colorful for the era of man-hauling. And then there’s the sled, piled high not with boxes of supplies but with a jumbled heap of antiquities: Greek Athenas, bits of a coliseum, a ship’s great wheel. In Jessica Houston’s collage “The Long Haul,” the explorers drag history itself into the great beyond, their backs turned from their absurd load. But we take in the entire scene.
In her suite of works, Over the Edge of the World, Houston uses oil on wood, ink on paper, and collages of found images, many from National Geographic Magazine, to rearrange the evidence – and thus history’s possibilities.
Houston joins visual artists such as Judit Hersko, Katja Aglert, and Isaac Julien who have been inspired by the explorers of the past. Like them, she draws, in part, on the singular tradition of polar exploration narratives as well as fictions such as Ursula Le Guin’s “Sur” (1981), a utopian feminist hoax in which a party of South American women reach the South Pole in 1909, two years before the official arrival of European explorers. Le Guin’s explorers do not feel compelled to leave any written record or physical proof of their presence at the South Pole. If Le Guin’s women might have made it, what other traces have been missed?
Collage can work alongside alternative history: it interprets, interrupts, and rearranges. It questions the completed whole, instead emphasizing composition and relation. Collage suggests it all might be … otherwise. Houston’s collages flaunt their second nature. Yet what they show remains somehow plausible. You want to believe what you’re beginning to see.
In “A life Attuned to Larger Rhythms” Houston grids out rectangles of captured images to overwhelm the eye as the polar environment itself might (whiteout is a paradoxical species of optical overstimulation). Through the strangely ordered confusion of an ice survey grafted atop a chessboard, the mind begins to recognize new connections, emergent shapes: a different future? In “Launching Strategy” a yellow-orange pyramid balances garishly atop a tent. Which came first, the realist tent or the Platonic shape? Can we ever be sure that we’re not already seeing through premade abstractions? Or is it that baggage we’ve been dragging along?
In “Architecture of the Anthropocene” and “Red Blood, Red Earth” Houston reroutes visually symbolic through-lines between women and non-European people and the official history in which they appear dimly or not at all. A full-skirted woman holds onto the tether of a kite that seems to pull her upwards towards a weather balloon floating above an Antarctic base’s radio tower; a row of tropical workers wielding pickaxes folds into the trajectory of a sailor aiming a bow and arrow at an iceberg stained with red. These are not people or images normally associated with polar discovery. But shouldn’t they matter?
“Territory Over Land” strips in a scene from a painted depiction of the tropics, possibly from one of Captain James Cook’s circumnavigations. “Captain Cook’s Legacy” more directly confronts an official portrait of Cook with the torn-in eyes from what can only be described as the explorer’s anonymous dark Other. The hybrid portrait is a kind of contact zone. “Henson and Peary – Past Entanglements” is a cooler, less volatile twin portrait of disputed discoverer of the North Pole Robert Peary...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
The Fatigue of the Conquest
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and sky are tinged a movie musical pale blue and their gear is a bit too colorful for the era of man-hauling. And then there’s the sled, piled high not with boxes of supplies but with a jumbled heap of antiquities: Greek Athenas, bits of a coliseum, a ship’s great wheel. In Jessica Houston’s collage “The Long Haul,” the explorers drag history itself into the great beyond, their backs turned from their absurd load. But we take in the entire scene.
In her suite of works, Over the Edge of the World, Houston uses oil on wood, ink on paper, and collages of found images, many from National Geographic Magazine, to rearrange the evidence – and thus history’s possibilities.
Houston joins visual artists such as Judit Hersko, Katja Aglert, and Isaac Julien who have been inspired by the explorers of the past. Like them, she draws, in part, on the singular tradition of polar exploration narratives as well as fictions such as Ursula Le Guin’s “Sur” (1981), a utopian feminist hoax in which a party of South American women reach the South Pole in 1909, two years before the official arrival of European explorers. Le Guin’s explorers do not feel compelled to leave any written record or physical proof of their presence at the South Pole. If Le Guin’s women might have made it, what other traces have been missed?
Collage can work alongside alternative history: it interprets, interrupts, and rearranges. It questions the completed whole, instead emphasizing composition and relation. Collage suggests it all might be … otherwise. Houston’s collages flaunt their second nature. Yet what they show remains somehow plausible. You want to believe what you’re beginning to see.
In “A life Attuned to Larger Rhythms” Houston grids out rectangles of captured images to overwhelm the eye as the polar environment itself might (whiteout is a paradoxical species of optical overstimulation). Through the strangely ordered confusion of an ice survey grafted atop a chessboard, the mind begins to recognize new connections, emergent shapes: a different future? In “Launching Strategy” a yellow-orange pyramid balances garishly atop a tent. Which came first, the realist tent or the Platonic shape? Can we ever be sure that we’re not already seeing through premade abstractions? Or is it that baggage we’ve been dragging along?
In “Architecture of the Anthropocene” and “Red Blood, Red Earth” Houston reroutes visually symbolic through-lines between women and non-European people and the official history in which they appear dimly or not at all. A full-skirted woman holds onto the tether of a kite that seems to pull her upwards towards a weather balloon floating above an Antarctic base’s radio tower; a row of tropical workers wielding pickaxes folds into the trajectory of a sailor aiming a bow and arrow at an iceberg stained with red. These are not people or images normally associated with polar discovery. But shouldn’t they matter?
“Territory Over Land” strips in a scene from a painted depiction of the tropics, possibly from one of Captain James Cook’s circumnavigations. “Captain Cook’s Legacy” more directly confronts an official portrait of Cook with the torn-in eyes from what can only be described as the explorer’s anonymous dark Other. The hybrid portrait is a kind of contact zone. “Henson and Peary – Past Entanglements” is a cooler, less volatile twin portrait of disputed discoverer of the North Pole Robert Peary...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Mixed Media
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
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