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Femme Fatale: Works by Craig Ford (September 9-30, 2022)
- Date: 09/09/2022
- Location: Visual Arts Center
10495 Woodstock Road
Roswell, Georgia 30075 - Introduction: at the Visual Arts Center
Femme Fatale: Works by Craig Ford
Opening Reception: September 9, 2022, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Exhibit: September 9-30, 2022
Tuesday - Friday, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Free and on display at the Roswell Visual Arts Center
Femme Fatale, an extremely intelligent, attractive and mischievous woman whose mysterious charms lean towards compromising situations. She is an archetype of literature and art, always associated with a sense of mystification and moral ambiguity. She never falls in love with someone but is often known to take advantage of opportunities that are given to her with tragic consequences.
This series of Pop Art influenced images feature a variety of famous and infamous characters/performers celebrated visually in a modern fashion. Using a variety of media such as oil paints, acrylic paints, enamel spray paints, inks, oil pastels, collaged paper on canvas and wood panels. These combined or mixed-medias were applied using traditional brushwork, some images being digitally altered in creating several handmade stencils.
Using a variety of celebrities from art history, Mona Lisa, the performing arts with women such as Marilyn Monroe, Gina Lollobrigida, Pam Grier, Marsha Hunt, Diana Ross, Judy Garland, Brigitte Bardot and fictional characters like Wonder Woman and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, along with others from film and television in a stylized fashion.
In an attempt to creatively stretch beyond the standard realism my more straightforward approach to painting, I wanted to come up with something fun yet abstract in composition. Portraits of famous individuals were subjects I had done very little with over the years and I wanted to approach this differently then my previous work. I found inspiration form such Pop-Art masters as Andy Warhol and the UK artist known as Banksy. So please enjoy this celebration of pop-culture icons.