Series 3, Number 13. Acrylic on Paper. 2010.
Friday, May 21, 2010
The Sketchbook Project, The Art House, Brooklyn, NY
The Sketchbook Project is one of several projects open to members of The Art House community every year. The Art House is a library of art work and a gallery in operation in Brooklyn, NY. Each artist who signs up is sent an 80 page 6x8 inch Moleskin Sketchbook and is assigned a theme. My theme was "Ahhh! Monsters!". The artists are asked to fill the sketchbook based on his or her theme. The finished sketchbooks travel around the country and are displayed at various galleries. Their final destination is at The Art House Library where they can be checked out by visitors.
I decided to name my sketchbook Beauty in the Eyes of the Editor and is based on the idea that the beauty industry is one of the worst "monsters" of our generation. The book's pages are filled with information on truths about the beauty industry, side effects of certain ingredients used in cosmetics, and various sketches. The words and sketches are covered by collaged images from magazines which I put together to create women's faces. The action I did of creating "beauty" is the similar to the actions that editors do to photographs of models using computers because, apparently, real women are not beautiful enough. This is my first piece of artwork that I take a strong opinion with, but it was fun to create something as political and as challenging as Beauty in the Eyes of the Editor.
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