About The Work
Melissa Dorn has had an ongoing obsession with industrial mop heads. This obsession has urged her to explore herself and issues of labor and feminism. The mop works are self-portraits, built on the memory of her mother calling her a mop head and her many selves. As Dorn explores the idea of portraiture, she also spends time looking closely at industrial mops, drawing them with an emphasis on gesture and the hair-like quality of the fiber. She is particularly interested in how materials such as graphite, fluorescent paint and strands of mop can be manipulated to further not only the formal aspects of a work but serve as metaphors.
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About Melissa Dorn
Painting
Acrylic and pencil on canvas
20.00 x 20.00 x 0.75 in
50.8 x 50.8 x 1.9 cm
This work is signed by the artist on verso.
About The Work
Melissa Dorn has had an ongoing obsession with industrial mop heads. This obsession has urged her to explore herself and issues of labor and feminism. The mop works are self-portraits, built on the memory of her mother calling her a mop head and her many selves. As Dorn explores the idea of portraiture, she also spends time looking closely at industrial mops, drawing them with an emphasis on gesture and the hair-like quality of the fiber. She is particularly interested in how materials such as graphite, fluorescent paint and strands of mop can be manipulated to further not only the formal aspects of a work but serve as metaphors.
Courtesy of the artist
About Melissa Dorn
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