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Postcard Paintings

Pamela Joseph: Postcard Paintings, 2005-2008. Dimensions variable.

New Moon-Viewing Point, after Hiroshige	The Seven Chinese Sages, after Soga Shoh
Resampling Les Demoiselles	Alice Neel's Andy and Fans
Time Line, after Magritte	Time Transfixed, after Magritte
Calico Flower Parts, after O'Keefe	Hidden Secrets, after Dufy's La Vie en Rose
Baroque a Go-Go, after Lichtenstein	The Acrobats and Their Partners, after Leger
Jungle Fever, with Frida	Notes on Matisse
Tempus Fugit, after Dali	Babe in Blue Light, after Guston
The Fertilization of The Desert, after Frida	The Re-Origin of the World, after Courbet
Fragile X, after Van Gogh	Mexican Hottentot, after Bellini
Anton's Beach Surprise, after Henning	Seated Woman, Woman's Seat, after Picasso
Bodies Surfing The Great Wave, after Hokusai	The World of Guido Reni

I would like to describe my work by using a quote from Rhythm Science by Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky.                

That's what mixing is all about: creating seamless interpolations between objects of thought to fabricate a zone of representation in which the interplay of the one and the many, the original and its double all come under question.

My current series, Postcard Paintings, began with my collection of exhibition announcements and museum gift shop postcards, which focuses on figurative images. I collage onto the postcards body parts from erotic comics and tart cards. I work on the computer by overlapping and receding the new information into the other artist’s paintings. From this interpretation, I create a painting on a larger scale in oils on linen or paper that incorporates the original collaged elements. Their scale has a dot matrix degradation that juxtaposes with the classical oil technique. As my painting evolves, the work becomes a dialogue between myself and the other artist. I acknowledge the other's style but I assert my own vision in developing the image.

Finally the painting is reproduced back into a commercial postcard.

View the complete Postcard Paintings Series: www.pamelajoseph.com/projects/postcard

1. Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, Rhythm Science, 2004, p.033.