Mixed Media

Meat Joy, Lynn Wright, 2007

Mixed media, montage, and collage have been around for decades as an alternative expression in art.  However, there has been a rapid increase in the popularity of a few offshoots of these more traditional avenues. Both photo montage and digital collage are fast becoming the norm in our current society.  We live in a world that is constantly bombarded with images (print ads, newspapers, internet, television, bill boards). It is hard to make sense of and “digest” all that we see.   Photo montage and digital collage,  like their older cousins, express multiple realities and reflect, quiet accurately,  modern civilization.

Much of the work that I make is based in a variety of different mediums including  oils, mixed media, and digital collage.  My most current work is a combination of both collage and photo montage techniques.The process is a rather lengthy process beginning with several hundred images collected from magazines and her own source imagery.  The images are put together intuitively without much thought  given to the initial concept.  Over time, the meaning of the image begins to reveal itself.  When she feels like she has  exhausted  all tangible possibilities, she takes the work and scans it into the computer.  At that point Photo Shop becomes the main tool for compositing and editing.  Images taken from the web are added as well as “special effects”.  The final image is output as a digital print.  Her obvious influences here are web-based imagery, Hieronymus Bosch, cultural trends, myth, and theology.

There are many wonderful mixed media (used in a very broad sense) artists living in my community who are featured under Mixed Media in the side bar.  You will also find some of the more well-known artist working in the field there as well.  Please be sure to take a look.

The Garden of Earthly Delight, Lynn Wright, 2007

Jesus Wept, Lynn Wright, 2010