Artwork Published In Volume 3, Issue 1:
“Backlit”
Artist Statement: Tiny, found photographs from the 1800’s are collaged and altered with layers of ink, dust and glue to create images that evoke sparks of humanity and ghostly fragments of invented stories. Inspired by archives, the work investigates the changeable nature of identity in an era of collective amnesia. It alludes to metamorphoses, dark histories and gothic struggles, in the context of today’s political and ecological upheavals.
Julie Blankenship is an artist, curator and archivist, based in San Francisco. She taught at SF State University; and SF Art Institute, where she previously studied. Her work has been published by Cut Me Up, Photo Trouvee, and Egaeus Press; and featured in many exhibitions– recently Re-Bop, Collage as Obstructions and Disruptions, Simmerling Gallery, Chicago; In Flux: Calibrating the Unknown, Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, California; and Time/Space/Existence, European Cultural Center, Venice, Italy. She founded Visual Aid Gallery, and led the organization serving artists with AIDS; currently working with its archives to preserve the creative legacy for future generations.
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