mnartists.org: Alex Poepping

The Tower

Alex Poepping — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:42:17 GMT

Diagram

Alex Poepping — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:58:22 GMT

1/6 linocut on paper 2012

Future

Alex Poepping — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:52:56 GMT

1/12 linocut on paper 2012

Vision

Alex Poepping — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:50:15 GMT

1/6 linocut on paper 2012

New-Found Lens

Alex Poepping — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:34:18 GMT

[i]New-Found Lens[/i] is a relief print that expresses the change women and people in general underwent in 1920’s America becoming highly influenced by the media in their understanding of life and important events.

Installation Shots from Internal | External

Alex Poepping — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:52:29 GMT

(pictured 1st) Pursuit is a 3 paneled print showing a story of two faceless women in a dangerous pursuit of one another. This print aims to point out the lenghts women will go to in order to attain the physical appearance of another. The mirror serves its purpose by forcing the viewer to look at themselves ( somthing more difficult than it should be) and relate themselves to the issue. (pictured 3rd) This two part work juxtaposes a pistol with surgical or medical materials aiming to portray the violence I see in the pursuit of beauty. After viewing an ad for a facial cream promising Infinite Youth I felt compelled to examine how these methods of self beautification do the opposite. (pictured 4th) This series examines women in early wartime era America and their expectations. These prints, made on dress pattern paper and sewed and embroidered onto fabric express their Obligations to be classically beautiful as well as maintain a household, a job, and the stereotypical women related work all at once.

image: partial installation shot

image: Infinite Youth I & II

image: Obligations I & II

Priorities I ('It don't never get good until about 3 in the morning")

Alex Poepping — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:35:53 GMT

Priorities I ('It don't never get good until about 3 in the morning') was inspired by the titled quote from Hinky-dink Kenna, a Chicago brothel owner in the 1920s. I connected this to the delicate position women were placed in in the 1920s where, presented with a situation in which family, marriage or sufficient income couldn't sustain them, a career in prostitution might mean survival.

Priorities II

Alex Poepping — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:38:41 GMT

[i]Priorities II[/i] is a relief print that expresses the internal struggle some women faced in 1920’s America defining independence and weighing it versus marriage.

Vanity

Alex Poepping — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:23:03 GMT

Photo Credit: Nell Ytsma Vanity is a intaglio print on paper that helped me to express my feelings about plastic surgery. Unnecessary and almost comical to me - plastic surgery takes something vanity related and adds something surgical.