AIR Cabinet Portrait Series 2023
Mixed media collage portraits with powdered pigment, pastel, and graphite inspired by the exhibition Acting Out Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography at
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The following works were finished during Artist in Residence at Kala Art Institute in March 2023.
References
This series pulls from references relating to 19th- 21st Century art historical references including photography, painting, drawing, portraiture, and identity performance.
Cabinet Card Source Image
Olympia, 1863
Edouard Manet, Painting
Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden, 1926
Otto Dix, Painting
The New Woman
Found Slide of Doppelgänger
Melanin Ghost
Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography
Drawing
Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography
Space Imagery
Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and Making of Modern Photography Exhibition
Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and Making of Modern Photography
Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and Making of Modern Photography
Found Object