Art In America (Gangta's Paradise), 2005Mixed media collage.
This collage is one of six in a series of collages title "Art In America". They were made for a exhibition titled "Funky Cold Medina" at a gallery space in the Lower East Side. Around the time that I made this work, I was seeing lots of collage work by artists in Chelsea galleries. One show that I remember was called, "Le Cabinet des Collages" at D'Amelio Terras, that included work by Christian Holstad and Martha Rosler. This show influenced me to make this series. Combining magazine covers from magazines that I often read such as Art In America, Mass Appeal, and The Source. Mixing the subject matter on the covers to create juxtapositions that spoke of very specific issues within urban culture.
