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Jello for Lovers<\/em>
10″x10″; collage and hand colored images on record album cover; 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Teresa Petersen
Detroit, Michigan, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am an artist living and working in the city of Detroit. My main media are collage and assemblage, with themes focusing on nature, society, consumption, and re-use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am concerned with overconsumption and how it affects Mother Nature. Due to our society\u2019s throw-away mindset, the world is awash with trash, and overflowing with used items. Buying more new things contributes to landfills and global warming, so I create only with castoff materials. I search thrift stores and bulk trash day cast-offs to find materials to use in my artworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My work makes fun of popular culture as it pertains to stereotypes about women and women\u2019s work. I also explore ideas of what is \u201cnatural\u201d and how we live within nature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My works are humorous, but they can have a sharp and subtle edge as I explore culture and stereotypes. I transform cheesy landscapes into narratives using cutouts from old encyclopedias, National Geographic<\/em>, ladies\u2019 magazines, and catalogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teresa Petersen is an artist living and working in the city of Detroit. She received a Bachelor\u2019s degree from Michigan State University in 1990, and a Master of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in 1998. She worked for 10 years as a scientific illustrator for both Michigan State University and the University of Michigan, drawing fossils, insects, fish, and lizards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She now works full-time as an artist at her studio in the Pioneer Building, a small, repurposed factory building in an old manufacturing section of Detroit shared with more than 30 other artists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides extensively showing locally in the Detroit area, she has also been selling art at Midwestern art festivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Penguins Tour Mexico<\/em>
12″x10″; collage on vintage tourist painting; 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jello Hat With Beans<\/em>
9″x9″; collage on painting fragment; 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Redecorating Dinosaur<\/em>
8″x10″; collage using old home decorating book page; 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Let’s Work Together<\/em>
5″x7″; collage on found watercolor; 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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