Lindsey Boss

Lindsey Boss
Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

STATEMENT

I consider collage an obsession of mine. I work primarily based on my own feelings, those that are widely considered “bad,” and use juxtaposing images to convey their beauty and the polarity between the range of all human emotions. Collecting vintage books and the hunt for them is a huge part of the process. The colours and imagery of old books, preferably from the 50s–80s, provide a sense of nostalgia that I love. Although highly personal, I often exclude parts of things and people in the collages, hoping to leave some of the narrative up to the viewer. I’m addicted to the way it feels to hold scissors and making even the tiniest cut, to glue sticks, and to the shadows created by layering of paper. It is a therapeutic way to process my own life, and an attempt to evoke a desire in others to enter the illusory, perhaps sometimes haunting, worlds I create.

BIO

Lindsey Boss is a collage artist living and working on the south shore of Massachusetts with a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has been creating and collecting source material for the collages since 2008. While mostly a covert practice, she has designed album covers and displayed her work in several galleries over the years for group shows and her one solo show, “Golden Deaths,” in Brookline, Massachusetts. Publications include Making the Cut Vol. 1: The World’s Best Collage Artists and Artypants magazine featuring New England artists.

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