Mixed media pieces with amazing textures,
saturated colors, and they are created with discarded materials?! The Post-Consumerism
work of Tiffany Gholar utilizes discarded materials and turns them into
something new and beautiful. We had to learn more about Tiffany and her work!
Tiffany Gholar is a Chicago based artist
working in a variety of mediums. In addition to her Post-Consumerism series,
she also has two series titled The Doll Project and Recessionism. She received
her BA in interdisciplinary art studies from The University of Chicago in 2001,
and later studied interior design at Harrington College of Design, also earning
her MA in painting from Governors State University. She has shown work at The Chicago Children's Museum, The Chicago Center
for Green Technology, Harold Washington Library, and The Adler School for
Professional Psychology. In addition to painting, Tiffany works as a freelance
interior designer, published her novel A
Bitter Pill to Swallow, and has been a champion on Jeopardy!
Tiffany shares more about her
Post-Consumerism series:
I find things with
interesting textures and think, I want to make something out of that. The
objects I find are often otherwise useless: containers, packing materials,
packaging, paint that dried on my palette. They are the residue of our
disposal, one-time-use material culture. By making art with these objects, I
imbue impermanent things with a new sense of permanence and purpose. For the
rhythmic interplay of light and shadow on corrugated cardboard, the dreamlike
diaphanous nature of plastic shopping bags, the brilliant hues of the bottles
that make our packaged beverages seem all the more appealing, every assemblage
in the series is infused with its own peculiar beauty. And I Call this style of
working with by by-products of the products we buy Post-Consumerism.
The artwork in this portfolio
is featured in three of her art books: The Sum of Its
Parts, Post-Consumerism and Imperfect Things.
Tiffany can be found online at www.tiffanygholar.com and on Instagram
@tiffanygholar
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