Things that inspire us: the work of Dotty Attie
Dottie Attie is a NYC based artist. Her work is a social commentary using images from the art of the past.
Her appropriation work uses the grid as a mean of juxtaposition and works like a collage. There are some obvious relationships with comic strip narration. She uses text to drive the meaning further.
Skin Deep [text reads: Sometimes a traveler in foreign lands / Where customs and mores are unfamiliar / Will find / Persistance / And perusal / Mean consent.]
Snap Shot [text reads: Sometimes a traveler in foreign lands / Where customs and mores are unfamiliar / Will find to his surprise / That in certain places / And in certain times / Resistance / And refusal / Mean consent.]
Vermeer’s Wife [text reads: When his estranged teacher Carl Fabritus died unexpectedly and under unusual circumstances, the news much delayed, reached Vermeer’s wife by letter.]
The Détournement process was initially developed by the Letterist and the Situationist art movements, later popularised by the Punk movement and 80’s culture jamming practices.
Why we like it:
• The question of the original and the copy surfaces trough the détournement nature of her work.
• The juxtaposition of apparently unrelated images, force the viewer to create his/her own narration; thus revealing more about our individual inner world than commenting on the external world.
• Could you re-use her re-used work and create a different meaning/narration?
* Dottie Attie’s work was brought to our attention by one of the many amazing users of Curator, Jeronimo Rosales @JeronimoRosales
