CENSORED
Mixed Media / Works on Paper
2005–2009
Reading the newspaper and watching television are daily, mundane events, with images appearing in an incongruous mixture of frivolous advertisements, toxic photographs, deadly headlines, and soft porn. The dichotomy of these unending, contradicting images creates a mixture of humor, absurdity, disbelief, guilt, and horror, be-speaking the postmodern conundrum. Censored provides the humor and insight needed to consider this complex combination of opposites and parallels.
LINDA VALLEJO
A Sin, 2009 | 23.5 x 15 in | repurposed newspaper, Wite-Out, Mylar, acrylic, pigment prints of Internet images
Amor, 2009 | Mexican movie poster collage using manipulated photographs, acrylic, Mylar, and Wite-Out | from the Collection of the National Mexican Museum of Art
An Unseen Enemy, 2007 | 23.5 x 15 in | repurposed newspaper, Wite-Out, Mylar, acrylic, pigment prints of Internet images
Blind Faith, 2006 | 23.5 x 15 in | repurposed newspaper, Wite-Out, Mylar, acrylic, pigment prints of Internet images
Channeling Change, 2006 | 23.5 x 15 in | repurposed newspaper, Wite-Out, Mylar, acrylic, pigment prints of Internet images
Den Girl, 2009 | 23.5 x 15 in | repurposed newspaper, Wite-Out, Mylar, acrylic, pigment prints of Internet images
Gang Rape, 2009 | 23.5 x 15 in | repurposed newspaper, Wite-Out, Mylar, acrylic, pigment prints of Internet images
Go Deep, 2009 | 23.5 x 15 in | repurposed newspaper, Wite-Out, Mylar, acrylic, pigment prints of Internet images
Refined Savages, 2006 | 23.5 x 15 in | repurposed newspaper, Wite-Out, Mylar, acrylic, pigment prints of Internet images
Refuges from Chaos, 2007 | 23.5 x 15 in | repurposed newspaper, Wite-Out, Mylar, acrylic, pigment prints of Internet images
To Have and to Hold, 2005 | 23.5 x 15 in | repurposed newspaper, Wite-Out, Mylar, acrylic, pigment prints of Internet images | from the Collection of Alexandra de la Vega
Unleashed Dogfights, 2007 | 23.5 x 15 in | repurposed newspaper, Wite-Out, Mylar, acrylic, pigment prints of Internet images
Vallejo’s broad command of a variety of mediums: painting, sculpture and site-specific installations are all within her prolific oeuvre. Her interests and subject-matter spans are considerable. Themes of beauty, consumption, war, excess, world pollution, iconic references to international indigenous peoples and earth-based installations all reside in her works. No commitments are implied in her work, but rather veiled assurances and alternatives. Such well-composed and thoughtful gestures seem hard to come by in our image and information-saturated lives.
WILLIAM MORENO, ART CONSULTANT AND CURATOR,
Digitized ephemera from exhibitions, publications, and special projects, hundreds of art images with details, and a video library.
