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Jane Maxwell’s mixed media collages explore contemporary issues

of female body image, incorporating vintage materials that recall the

glamour of post-World War II pop culture. In her current work, seductive,

trim female silhouettes are central icons.

“I search for silhouettes everywhere,” Maxwell says, “on billboards, in

red carpet photos, fashion runway shows and magazines. I’m interested

in taking those iconic moments that are so present in the consumer’s

mind, and deconstructing the image.”

Drawing inspiration from American Pop Artists such as Rauschenberg

and Warhol, Maxwell’s art both deconstructs and illuminates the

notion of the feminine ideal—illustrating the push-pull of desire and

pressure that women feel. Provocatively posed, her figures are stripped

of fashion and airbrushing, molded instead from layers of found and

vintage papers. She enlists old movie posters, produce crate labels and

advertising signs to compose the colors, texture and text that surround

and become the female shapes.

In this new series, richly detailed circles are also paramount—integral

players in both composition and subject. A classic symbol of perfection,

the circle also evokes a myriad of other metaphors: a mirror, a scale,

flashbulbs on a runway, or even thought bubbles, capturing a moment

of internal reflection.

  

Infused with cultural commentary about women’s relationships with

their physical form, each canvas is the result of many hours of labor:

layering and sanding, building up and scraping back. Maxwell’s

technique incorporates hot melted beeswax, which lends a translucent

depth. Each piece is then finished with a coat of high gloss resin, where,

in certain light, the viewer may find him or herself reflected in the image,

and enclosed within its sphere.

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