OM.2024.055 - Marlene Weisman - USA
OM.2024.055 - Marlene Weisman - Mod Shopper - collage on panel - 7 x 5 inches - USA - acquired
Mod Shopper
Collage
Mod Shopper is a collage meld of memories from my1960s NYC childhood, thrown in with my ongoing fascination with Mod pop culture imagery.
It’s also a comment about transcending women’s domestic roles. Tires also make frequent cameo appearances in my collages—I never got my driver’s license (true New Yorker!) so the freedom of the road is quite a pipe dream to me.
This is a collage simply placed onto a small Gesso board, with my favorite Pop Art primary color-infused palette.
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Artist Bio
Marlene Weisman is a Brooklyn, New York-based artist and graphic designer. Working in mixed media, collage, and assemblage, her work is strongly influenced by 1960s Pop Art and explores appropriation, transformation and experimental processes with both traditional and unconventional materials.
Some of her early Xerox transfer art pieces were acquired for the permanent study collection of The Museum of Modern Art and subsequently included in their exhibition Club 57; Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978 - 1983. Related to the exhibition, she was featured in an episode of MoMA’s IN THE STUDIO YouTube series where she demonstrated the Xerox transfer process and talked about the era.
Weisman’s art has also been exhibited in a solo show at the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, curated into exhibitions at Saatchi’s The Other Art Fair, the Islip Art Museum, BRIC Media House, NARS Foundation Gallery, Hal Bromm Gallery, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, and other venues. In the summer of 2024, she will debut her work internationally in a giant collage-based installation at the UK’s Latitude Festival, as 2024’s LWCA International Artist.
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Artist Statement
I’m an artist who speaks fluid collage. It’s my chosen visual language. Whether it’s a scissors in my hand, or an assortment of objects on my work table, expression flows out. Sometimes a small scrap of paper found on the sidewalk inspires the creation of a whole new series of work. For me, there’s nothing like the thrill of taking images or objects out of one context, and creating a whole new universe to place them in.
The Surrealists, Dadaists, and Pop Artists have all explored the collage impulse in their respective eras. Frequently, those fragments seen today in their work serve as both time capsules and social commentaries on issues they wanted to address or emotions they were experiencing. Through my various experimental collage series, assemblage art constructions, and transfer drawings, I aim to do the same.
My art studio practice is located in Gowanus, Brooklyn at TI Art Studios, which is a wonderful community of local artists. My interest in pop cultural history and my hands-on training in graphic design also plays a huge part in the visual elements, composition, and techniques of my work.
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