Black, White and Red All Over: Genevieve GaignardPosted in Articles, Arts, Interviews, Media Archive, United States on 2019-06-02 00:39Z by Steven |
Black, White and Red All Over: Genevieve Gaignard
Musée: Vanguard of Photography Culture
2019-04-24
 Genevieve Gaignard This American Beauty, 2019. Vintage magazine cutouts, clear acrylic, on panel, 48 x 36 x 2.5 in. (121.9 x 91.4 x 6.3 cm). Courtesy the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago. |
Genevieve Gaignard’s first solo show “Black White and Red All Over” is currently exhibited at the Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago from April 5th-May 24th. The exhibition showcases Gaignard’s new body of mixed media artwork and a new site-specific installation. In this exhibition, the artist speaks on the intersecting representational issues of race, femininity and class in modern American society.
Ashley Yu: Why do you use photo collages of magazine cutouts as your medium of choice?
Genevieve Gaignard: I wouldn’t say this is my medium of choice per se. It’s more that I’m an artist that works in various mediums (photography, installation, sculpture and collage) in order to address the topics of gender, class and racial injustice in America. For me, it’s very instinctual to work with magazine images. I grew up collaging my bedroom walls as a teenager. I feel like, in a way, I’m taking from that memory and applying it to my practice…
…Ashley: You often refer to the “invisibility” of growing up mixed-race in America. Would you explain that to us?
Genevieve: Sure. My particular experience growing up in a predominately white town and looking white to most people felt like I wasn’t really seen at all…
Read the entire interview here.