Hope Kroll “Unbound”
Joseph Gross Gallery
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Unbound is a tribute to the obsessions and unequaled creative skills of the artist, who has been collecting images culled from a wide range of sources since 1998. The images in her three-dimensional collages are “unbound” because when she carves them out they become isolated from their original context to be given new life. Once the images are carefully rearranged as part of the process, they seem to float on the surface each with a distinct connotation and vitality. Hope’s detailed figures, often permeated by a yellow patina due to the vintage quality of her book covers and blank pages, are inextricably connected to the background and yet suspended in a maze-like intricate microcosm where reality can be two-dimensional and three-dimensional at the same time. Hope Kroll’s work focus’s on medical imagery, birds, flowers, machinery and anything that may attract her attention. The artist constantly juxtaposes the images selected in endless new ways. She usually works with vintage books, lithographs, etchings and old photographs. The books and photographs that she works with are especially compelling as they each possess their own unique history, having passed through many hands before coming into her possession. Kroll doesn’t use magazines, scans or anything digital. Furthermore she doesn’t transform paper with paint, glues or other mediums because she prefers to work with raw materials.
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from March 12, 2015 to March 28, 2015