Georgia O’Keeffe, Her Life in Collage by Erik Sulander

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Contemporary Collage of the work and life of Georgia O’Keeffe on Paper by Erik Sulander. Signed and unframed (matter board … Read more Contemporary Collage of the work and life of Georgia O’Keeffe on Paper by Erik Sulander. Signed and unframed (matter board not included.). Scholarly description; The interplay of imagery situates the work within the tradition of photomontage and collage that emerged with the European avant-garde (Hannah Höch, John Heartfield), but its iconography distinctly recalls the American dialogue between nature and modernity, a discourse epitomized in the tension between New York’s vertical skyline and the spiritual landscapes of the Southwest explored by Georgia O’Keeffe and contemporaries. The work thus embodies a duality: the skyscraper as symbol of progress and order, and the desert forms as reminders of primordial vastness and human fragility.

Through this layering, the collage becomes less a singular narrative than a palimpsest of cultural myths—the heroic city, the monumental landscape, and the enigmatic individual—each fragment asserting itself while also being subsumed into the whole. The result is an image that resists closure, inviting the viewer to negotiate its multiplicity as both a historical reflection and a contemporary meditation on identity within constructed environments. See less