Mining the familiar and lush imagery of magazines and newspapers — from Vogue and Playboy's from the '70's to the LA and NY Times — Rya Kihlstedt’s collages strip away, layer, frame, reframe and reveal the spaces between our public and private worlds. Every piece is a shockingly intimate visual haiku.
Dawoud Bey Reimagined
Mr. Dawoud is an American photographer from NY known for his beautiful street portraits. Once I discovered him I saw his work everywhere and took the liberty of taking them out of their environments and redressing them.
Landscapes of Her Body
Each piece in this series tells a woman's story, or better yet a single chapter of her story - full of desire, and memory, longing and sadness.
Yves Klein Blue
He said "Blue is the invisible becoming visible". This marks the start of a new direction for me - mixing ink and paint with collage.
Power Lines
I find them both ugly and beautiful, these man-made electric lines that create a grid through our skies and cities and daily lives, that we take for granted and barely notice.
