Not exact matches
Her cartoon - like images suggest a child's point of view, while evoking images from fairy tales, which
often articulate social taboos that twist the
formation of
identity and ideas about race, gender, and sexuality.
She also questions the cultural
identity of Asian women,
often reduced to young, innocent, and pure images, and ponders the
formation of their unique personal backgrounds within contemporary Western societies.
The manipulated
identities of the subjects are
often presented as seemingly objective; a concertized
formation within the work that is deconstructed in photography and film throughout the exhibition.
Landscape painting has also played a tremendous role in the
formation of the country's
identity and is represented by several examples of the Hudson River School,
often described as the first American movement.
Inspired by a multitude of sources including historical photographs, urban - planning grids, Modernism, and graffiti, these semi-abstract works explore power, history, and the built environment, and the
often dystopic impact of these factors on the
formation of personal and communal
identities.
Piper Marshall said: «
Often we keep objects for personal reasons, for their gauge of our
identity formation, for their marking of passed time, or for their status in relationship to a period in life.
In her fantastical worlds, body and object are
often interchangeable, reflecting how the
formation of
identity is
often bound to the plastic commodities that surround us from childhood.