Shirley Shor

Urban Dream, Multimedia Wall Art with Animated Video

circa 2005

Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011) - All Nighter, Year: 2004, Medium: Giclee print on paper signed, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size: 22 x 17 inches, Siz...

Artist: Bertrand Dorny, French (1931 - ) Title: Black Abstract Year: 1978 Medium: Spray Paint with Charcoal and Conte Crayon on Paper, signed l.r. Paper Size: 22 x 30 inches

A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and sky are tinged a movie musical pale blue and their gear is a bit too colorful for the era of man-hauling. And then there’s the sled, piled high not with boxes of supplies but with a jumbled heap of antiquities: Greek Athenas, bits of a coliseum, a ship’s great wheel. In Jessica Houston’s collage “The Long Haul,” the explorers drag history itself into the great beyond, their backs turned from their absurd load. But we take in the entire scene. In her suite of works, Over the Edge of the World, Houston uses oil on wood, ink on paper, and collages of found images, many from National Geographic Magazine, to rearrange the evidence – and thus history’s possibilities. Houston joins visual artists such as Judit Hersko, Katja Aglert, and Isaac Julien...

Collection of black and white artwork by contemporary American artist Sandra Constantine. Collages from original prints. Newly framed in black wood. Collection styles P1052 thru ...