OM.2024.091 - Marlene Weisman - USA
OM.2024.091 - Marlene Weisman - USA - untitled - collage on panel - 8 x 8 inches - Visual Poetry and Color
My starting point was a vintage 1930 "American Typeface" style book, part of a collection of vintage graphic design ephemera I have in my studio. Graphic designers looked over these books to choose which typefaces to use for their projects.
To demonstrate how all letters would look, a variety of random words were shown on each page, spaced apart like poems.
To me, these random words always read beautifully like Dadaist poetry. For this collage, I've used the page showing "Bernhard Gothic Heavy", with some of the lines:
BE artist
big AID
ICE cold
drake BIG
NICE folder
perfect VERSE
MINOR terminal
educated ANIMALS
The color parts are additions from modern junk mail.
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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