mixed media photographers

Eva Weinmayr

Eva Weinmayr's art makes use of the sensationalist headlines blared out in the populist British press day after day.
Artist Eva Weinmayr, who works with leftovers, designs, and fragments of the information society, is primarily interested in language. For years she has been collecting "teaser bills" - those abbreviated and exaggerated posters hawking the headlines of the day - from the London Evening Standard, and using them as a starting point for her work. In a fragmentary and associative text written especially for this book, artist Gustav Metzger reflects on Weinmayr's work and documents the ongoing dialogue between their very different artistic positions, which both focus on social processes. This artist's book, edited by Florian Matzner and designed by Zylvia Auerbach, succeeds in capturing this fleeting dialogue and the exciting tension underlying it.

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American painter, the chief pioneer of Abstract Expressionism. Born in Cody, Wyoming, and grew up in Arizona and California. Moved to New York and studied 1929-31 with Thomas Benton at the Art Students League. Influenced by Benton's regionalist style and by Ryder, and later by the Mexican mural painters and Picasso. Worked as an easel painter on the WPA Federal Art Project 1938-42. Paintings of ritual violence or sexuality, with turbulent clashes of movement and fragmentary archetypal imagery, which led gradually in the early 1940s to a completely abstract 'all-over' style to which was given the name Abstract Expressionism. First one-man exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim's gallery Art of This Century, New York, 1943. His involvement with gestural painting, inspired partly by the sand painting of the American Indians and partly by Surrealism, culminated in his use from 1947 of a technique of dripping trails of paint onto a canvas laid flat on the floor. Married the painter Lee Krasner in 1944 and settled with her at Springs, Long Island, 1946. Painted a number of works in black and white in 1951-2, many with re-emerging imagery of anatomical motifs, etc. Died in a car crash at East Hampton.

 

 

Sally Mankus

"In creating much of this mixed media work I have used a process of lifting rust, carbon and markings from charred surfaces (mainly bakeware). The rust, carbon, and markings become embedded in an acrylic "skin". These "skins"are translucent and flexible. In addition to using these as finished pieces sometimes I add other things - image transfers, paint, found objects".

 

 

 

Sally Mankus statement

 

"Much of my work has evolved from a unique process of lifting rust, carbon and markings from charred surfaces (mainly bakeware). The work explores layered and diverse meanings incorporated in everyday, overlooked objects one would find in the home. The work has moved into the realm of installation incorporating numerous domestic items, primarily items used in the ritual of preparing and serving food. Objects (pans, pot lids, napkins, etc.) and materials (rust, carbon) used are so common they become symbols in a universal language. Photography has become a part of the work in the form of manipulated (sometimes layered) Xeroxed images. Participation in the work involves not just the visual, but sound, smell, taste and touch. The viewer is invited to look more closely at that which is and has been experienced on a daily basis. Objects and images take on multiple, often contradictory, meanings leading to diverse interpretations".