Brooklyn, New York
Gandi Has Them Handi
5" x 6" x 1"
$2,500-- To Purchase Contact 23 Sandy Gallery
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LOVE ME TENDER, Collages and Paintings on Paper: My recent work combines images from the infamous Tijuana “Bibles”--underground Pornographic booklets of the 1920’s to the 40’s-- and lewd Japanese comics with sewing patterns in a complexity of dense layered forms, drawn elements and close value color. The bibles titillated; even now they surprise and embarrass satirizing American values through the exploits of celebrities and folk heroes. While seemingly sweet, my collages seek to disguise the forbidden; the patterns reference “good girls” industriously sewing in contrast with the ribald activity of the bad girls who are clearly having more fun. My working process is intuitive, additive, uses accident and found materials and is related to the traditions of sewing, quilting and stitchery. While Elvis does not appear, my collages are named for his songs because of his charge of sexuality, forbidden impulses, bad taste and because afterwards...things were never the same.
Artist Biography
Susan Newmark has had solo exhibitions of her books and collages at the Figureworks Gallery (Love Me Tender) in Williamsberg in Brooklyn in 2006 and at the Brooklyn Public Library (Journals: Seen and Recalled) in 2005. Her work is currently on view in The Singular Object at the Brooklyn College Library and in Play at Proteus Gowanus and has been included in recent group exhibitions at The Pelham Art Center (The Artist and the Book); The Parish Museum ( The 39th Juried Exhibition) and the Brooklyn Museum of Art (OPEN HOUSE/Working in Brooklyn). She has had residencies at the Lower East Side Printshop and the Womens Studio Workshop and directs the visual arts program at the Abrons Arts Center of Henry Street Settlement on the lower East Side of Manhattan.
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