2018.10.422
Remodeled
Artist
Paula Wilson
(1975 – )
Title
Remodeled
Creation Date
2007
Century
early 21st century
Dimensions
19 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (49.53 x 64.77 cm)
Object Type
collage
Creation Place
North America, United States
Medium and Support
woodcut lithograph, collage on paper
Credit Line
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
Copyright
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Accession Number
2018.10.422
Paula Wilson often uses multiple techniques to reflect on cultural history and female identity. Her print and collage present a fantastical understanding of time and place, and women figure prominently. Wilson collapses history, combining prehistoric animals with a stylized amphora vessel, a classical form. Vessels are a recurrent symbol in Wilson’s work. They allow her to reference and draw inspiration from a variety of cultures while inserting her own perspective onto the form. In this depicted vessel, a woman with tightly coiled hair is flanked by two birds, as the silhouette of a woman seemingly gazes at the amphora. Mindful of the legacies of cultural histories, Wilson, in describing her work, states: “I think there is a very strong Western and masculine art historical narrative that we are taught in school…so a lot of my work is about an artwork coming to life and trying to understand itself and its own place in this history.”
