BIG NEWS!!
Wellesley College, my alma mater, has purchased 5 of my Relative Unknowns collages for its art collection! These pieces will hang in the Jewish Studies department, which makes this news particularly meaningful for me. I am SO excited and honored.
The Relative Unknowns series consists of collage portraits of people I know I’m related to, but whose photographs have outlived my family’s memory of their names, identities, and stories. Knowing these anonymous photographs would inevitably get thrown out, I squirreled them away to my room as a kid, keeping them into adulthood. In 2010, I started crafting collages based on these photographs, to get these unknown ancestors back up on the wall. Though these works can look painterly, or even photographic, the only materials employed to create them are paper, tape, and glue.
You can view more of the Relative Unknowns pieces by clicking here.
