Dadalectic
Mixed Media Art
Flower Daze
An ongoing mixed media series, “Flower Daze” is an exploration in ephemerality through a floral lens using both physical and digital media.
Project
Overview
Owner
The Girl Mirage
A Geena Media brand, The Girl Mirage is Geena Matuson as multidisciplinary artist using the surreal to explore the ephemeral and shine a light on societal perceptions. Stylistically, her work plays with language and patterns, cognitive dissonance and ephemerality, often using the medium itself as a means to communicate a message.
As with her multimedia work, her two-dimensional art is characterized by a variety of colors, textures and shapes to create contrast and balance. While she employs one medium in a variety of ways, her work is often a mix of media including physical paint, pencils and pen; and photography, digital design, collage and layering.
Concept
Flower Daze
An ongoing mixed media series, “Flower Daze” is an exploration in ephemerality through a floral lens using both physical and digital media. Both intentional and experimental techniques are used in this work, including physical watercolor, acrylics, layering, and also the methods by which each piece is printed.
This series focuses on the flower, and its ephemeral nature. While the flower only lives and blooms for a brief period of time, this series distorts its reality into a fantasy that can live on in perpetuity in a surreality that does not question the flowers' enduring presence.
Details
Stemming from Photographs
While some pieces look like they are entirely digitally fabricated, or perhaps entirely painted, each image starts with a photograph taken by the artist at various points in time. A series that began in 2015, all work has been created by hand and no A.I. has been involved in its making.
Flower Daze
An ongoing series of mixed media artwork, “Flower Daze” captures a love of all things floral. Techniques have included both physical and digital media, with a focus on ephemerality as expressed through artistic experimentation.
Specifications
Mixed Media (Series)
Content Creation
Original photography captured; and physical paint (watercolor, acrylics) used as a foundational base for project.
Mixed Media Art
Mixed media art created using foundational content and digital techniques including layering and blending; unique marks added to each print as based on its print medium.
Product Development
Research and strategy for product print methods per artwork, distribution and sales.
Processing & Production
Artwork formatted for specific print products (archival paper, canvas, consumer goods). Artwork printed on canvas includes physical unique marks added in post-production.
Sales & Distribution
Artwork made available for print-on-demand online purchase, and limited-run canvas print series.
PR & Press
Created all content for project and its marketing, and outreach. Select artwork featured in several publications and shows.
Art
Accolades
Shows & Publications
2018 | Circle Quarterly Art Review (Winter Ed.), Circle Foundation for the Arts, Circle Quarterly Art Review (Winter Ed.), Print, Circle Foundation for the Arts, circle-arts.com
2018 | Feature, The TAX Collection, thetaxcollection.com
2016 | Summer Solo Show, The Gallery at Medfield TV, Medfield MA, US
Portfolio
Visual Samples
Mixed Media Artwork
Mixed media art created using photography, physical paintings and digital techniques including layering and blending. Artwork printed on canvas includes unique physical marks added in post-production.
Quote
Ephemeral Nature
“Photographing flowers allows me to capture a single moment in time, and creating art using this imagery allows me to be closer to one of my favorite ephemeral subjects. I can then change this unique moment into something unrealized in nature, adding colors and textures from another world.”
Development & Production
Research and strategy for product print methods per artwork, distribution and sales. Artwork formatted for specific print products such as archival paper, canvas, and consumer goods.
Sales & Distribution
Artwork made available for print-on-demand online purchase, and limited-run canvas print series. Select artwork featured in several publications and shows.
Flower Daze
An ongoing series of mixed media artwork, “Flower Daze” captures a love of all things floral. Techniques have included both physical and digital media, with a focus on ephemerality as expressed through artistic experimentation.
Project
Brands
The Girl Mirage
A Geena Media brand, The Girl Mirage is Geena Matuson as multidisciplinary artist using the surreal to explore the ephemeral and shine a light on societal perceptions.
Geena Photos
A Geena Media brand, Geena Photography hosts the photographic work of Geena Matuson sharing stories of everyday life around the world.
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