{"id":9348,"date":"2021-03-22T19:10:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T23:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=9348"},"modified":"2021-03-22T19:12:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T23:12:39","slug":"l-i-henley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/l-i-henley","title":{"rendered":"L.I. Henley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There’s No Place Like Home<\/em>
11″x14″; two gicl\u00e9e prints of an acrylic paint pour the artist made, magazine clippings from vintage Life Magazine<\/em>, black mat board; 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

L.I. Henley
Twentynine Palms, California, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

I am a mixed-media artist and writer living just outside the town of Joshua Tree where I was born. Having grown up near the San Andreas Fault in the desolate, desert town of Landers, I became attracted to the risk, disappointment, and surprise of mixed media. I like the mess. The shards. The cracks in the molding. The faces hidden in the walls and bushes. The times, too, when the piece doesn\u2019t move for days and I stare and stare, waiting to learn what it wants to become. The majority of the images you’ll find in my collages come from vintage issues of Life Magazine<\/em>, some dating as far back as 1930. I often incorporate text from old books on etiquette, entertaining, and housekeeping. Many of my pieces use erasure, blackout, and other techniques to create small poems or mantras that lift female-identifying persons up out of the mire of stereotypical domestic captivity and reaffirm their individuality and potency. Others are still-life collages of a time that seems at once vintage and present-day. I am also a maker of unique, mythical, feminine, mixed-media paper dolls that are imbued with strength, resilience, and love of self. Like my collages, they are ephemeral but fierce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

L.I. Henley was born and raised in the Mojave Desert towns of Joshua Tree and Landers. A visual artist and writer who often utilizes both text and image at the same, she is the author of six books including Starshine Road<\/em>, which won the 2017 Perugia Press Prize, and the poetry and art book From the moon, as I fell<\/em> with artist Zara Kand. In addition to analog collage and erasure, Henley also creates strange, mythical, mixed-media jointed paper dolls that incorporate elements of collage. Sometimes the dolls even dance wildly in her stop motion videos. Her artwork has appeared in Waxwing<\/em>, Thrush<\/em>, The Indianapolis Review<\/em>, Candyfloss<\/em>, Arthole<\/em>, Adroit<\/em>, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

[click to email<\/a>]
www.lihenley.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Avoid Seating Two People Next to One Another<\/em>
6″x4″; clippings from vintage Life Magazine<\/em>, text from Emily Post’s On Entertaining<\/em>, marker; 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Two People Are Temporary Arrangements<\/em>
6″x4″; clippings from vintage Life Magazine<\/em>, text from Emily Post’s On Entertaining<\/em>, metallic
marker; 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Woman You Didn’t Invite<\/em>
14″x11″; clippings from vintage Life Magazine<\/em>, text from Emily Post’s On Entertaining<\/em>, insects from field guide, netting from a bag of lemons, metallic gold foil; 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Would You Like To Dance?<\/em>
14″x11″; clippings from vintage Life Magazine, text from Emily Post’s On Entertaining, dried flowers, marker; 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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