FROM KOLAJ #19
A profile of Rhonda Wall
Rhonda Wall thinks of her collage art as Neo Collage from the 21st century. Formally, her work has an affinity with diverse aesthetics, like Dada, Russian Constructivism, and Surrealism; as well as collage artists like Romare Bearden, Kurt Schwitters, Hannah Höch, and Liubov Popova. Thematically, her collages reveal underlying feminist and political narratives, blending imagery from magazines, old scientific manuals, internet sources and painting. Altogether these fragments form a cohesive and idiosyncratic visual syntax, which is familiar and hard to place at the same time.
Etty Yaniv profiles this fascinating artist in Kolaj #19.
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Ranging from historical figures to pop icons, scientific breakthroughs to technological inventions, epidemics to religious symbols, advertisements from the 60’s to space explorations, natural disasters to greeting cards, old to new political campaigns, Wall’s imagery interrelates and resonates unexpected new meaning.
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Originally from Boston, Rhonda Wall has a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Vermont College. Her work has been written about extensively, including the New York Times, New York Magazine, and ARTNews. Her work is a number of public and private collections, including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the Allentown Art Museum, the University of North Carolina, and the Keith Haring Foundation. Learn more at www.rhondawall.com.
Image (top left):
Two White Horses Prevail
by Rhonda Wall
24″x24″
paint and collage on board
2010
Image (top right):
Shiva, Gas Masks and Scorpions
by Rhonda Wall
24″x24″
paint and collage on board
2010
Image (centre):
Brexit and Gravity
by Rhonda Wall
14″x11″
paint and collage on board
2016
Image (bottom):
from “Hospitals Are Places”
2004-2007