Rachel Dayson has a great way with comic gesture and narrative, unusual visual forms that she explores by creating enigmatic vignettes – often bordering on the surreal, and often with a feminist bite – that appear mediated by the popular comics and commercial illustration of our semi-recent past. The visual elements that make up her elaborate compositions are often based on appropriated imagery from 1970s publications, including old issues of such Mad Magazine spin-offs as the comic books “Cracked,” “Crazy,” and “Sick.”
Dayson personalizes these images by adding her own, hypnotic colored patterns, sometimes inspired by fabrics found in dated books offering instruction in Do-It-Yourself Crafts and Applique. This exhibition will also include Dayson’s newest, mixed media work, in which the artist collages actual hand-me-down fabric onto her paintings, in combination with hand-painted elements. |
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