As I Saw It
The works in As I Saw It recreate memories both borrowed and personal. With nods towards an assumed idealism, stories are modified and memorialized through their reinterpretation. Some works denote vulnerability tempered by a gentle touch of longing and tenderness, while others blatantly pose fiction as fact with an offbeat charm that reminds us that life’s best salve is humor. Artists include Diane Meyer, Daphne Minkoff, Kirsten Tradowsky, Grace Weston and Jan Waldon.
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Diane Meyer breaks down and reassembles family photos through embroidered pixelations designed to question authentic experience versus memory.
Derelict homes in Seattle are reconstructed with paint and collage in Daphne Minkoff’s Façade series.
Kirsten Tradowsky’s paintings rebuild borrowed moments from found vintage photos.
For Jan Waldon, stitching elaborate patterns over personal photos of mountain ranges that hold emotionally charged significance acts as a process of contemplation, meditation, and healing.
Grace Weston uses vintage Barbie dolls to stage and photograph unsettling scenes of cinematic noire to amusing effect.
Press
Daphne Minkoff
Façade of Stablity: View 1, 2022
Collage, oil on canvas
44” x 50”
Daphne Minkoff
Out of This World, 2023
Collage, oil on canvas
43” x 56 ½” sold
Daphne Minkoff
Façade of Order: View 2, 2022
Collage, oil on canvas over board
24” x 30” sold
Daphne Minkoff
Façade of Stablity: View 2, 2022
Collage, oil on canvas over board
18” x 18” sold
Diane Meyer
San Francisco I, 2017
Handsewn archival inkjet print
9 ½” x 11 ¾” framed
Edition 2/3 sold
Diane Meyer
New Jersey II, 2011
Handsewn archival inkjet print
9 ½” x 11” framed
Edition 2/3
Diane Meyer
New Jersey XIII, 2016
Handsewn archival inkjet print
10 ¼” x 12” framed
Edition 1/3
Diane Meyer
New Jersey XV, 2016
Handsewn archival inkjet print
9 ½” x 10 ¾” framed
Edition 1/3
Oil on canvas
24” x 24”
Kirsten Tradwosky
July 1978, 2018
Oil on canvas
24” x 24”
Kirsten Tradwosky
Valiant Woman, 2021
Oil on canvas
16” x 20”
Kirsten Tradwosky
Yellow and White Camper, 2023
Oil on Panel
16” x 16”
Jan Waldon
Badlands, 2022
Embroidery on photograph on archival paper
22 ¼” x 26 ¼” framed
Jan Waldon
Crested Butte, 2021
Embroidery on photograph on archival paper
30 ¼” x 26 ¼” framed sold
Jan Waldon
New Crested Butte, 2023
Embroidery on photograph on archival paper
26 ¼” x 22 ¼” framed sold
Jan Waldon
Gothic, 2022
Embroidery on photograph on archival paper
29 ¼” x 22 ¼” framed sold
Jan Waldon
Big Sur, 2022
Embroidery on photograph on archival paper
26 ¼” x 22 ¼” framed sold
Diane Meyer
Disneyland II, 2014
Handsewn archival inkjet print
11 ½” x 9 ½” framed
Edition 2/3
Diane Meyer
New Jersey XIX, 2021
Handsewn archival inkjet print
8” x 9 ¼” framed
Edition 1/3
Daphne Minkoff
Façade of Stablity: View 3, 2022
Collage, oil on canvas over board
18” x 18” sold
Daphne Minkoff
Façade of Durability: View 1, 2023
Collage, oil on canvas
32” x 40” sold
Daphne Minkoff
Façade of Order: View 2, 2023
Collage, oil on canvas over board
24” x 30”
Kirsten Tradwosky
After Party 1967, 2021
Oil on canvas
8” x 8”
Grace Weston
Slow Dance, The Long Night series, 2016
Dye-sublimation on aluminum, flush-mount
24″ x 16″ framed
Edition 4/8
Grace Weston
Meeting of Men, The Long Night series, 2016
Dye-sublimation on aluminum, flush-mount
24″ x 16″ framed
Edition 3/8
Grace Weston
Killing Time, The Long Night series, 2016
Dye-sublimation on aluminum, flush-mount
24″ x 16″ framed
Edition 2/8
Grace Weston
Insomnia, The Long Night series, 2016
Dye-sublimation on aluminum, flush-mount
24″ x 16″ framed
Edition 3/8
Grace Weston
Who IS This?, The Long Night series, 2017
Dye-sublimation on aluminum, flush-mount
24″ x 16″ framed
Edition 1/8
Grace Weston
Busy Signal, The Long Night series, 2017
Dye-sublimation on aluminum, flush-mount
24″ x 16″ framed
Edition 2/8
Grace Weston
Stakeout, The Long Night series, 2021
Dye-sublimation on aluminum, flush-mount
24″ x 16″ framed
Edition 1/8
Grace Weston
Just Drive, The Long Night series, 2015
Dye-sublimation on aluminum, flush-mount
24″ x 16″ framed
Edition 3/8 sold
Diane Meyer
Austria I, 2016
Handsewn archival inkjet print
10 ¼” x 9” framed
Edition 2/3 sold
Diane Meyer
Bruges I, 2013
Handsewn archival inkjet print
9 ¾” x 10 ½” framed
Edition 2/3
Jennifer Vanderpool
Now What?, The Modern Series, 2021
Archival pigment print on paper
6″ x 9″ image size; 8 ½” x 11 ½” framed
Edition 1/5
Jennifer Vanderpool
Reasonable Rates, The Modern Series, 2021
Archival pigment print on paper
6″ x 9″ image size; 8 ½” x 11 ½” framed
Edition 1/5
Jennifer Vanderpool
Youngstown to Cleveland, The Modern Series, 2021
Archival pigment print on paper
21″ x 17″ image size; 23 ½” x 19 ½” framed
Edition 1/5
Jennifer Vanderpool
Troy to Geneva-on-the-Lake, The Modern Series, 2021
Archival pigment print on paper
21″ x 17″ image size; 23 ½” x 19 ½” framed
Edition 1/5
Jennifer Vanderpool
Lake Superior to Detroit, The Modern Series, 2021
Archival pigment print on paper
17″ x 21″ image size; 19 ½” x 23 ½” framed
Edition 1/5
Daphne Minkoff
Tender Mercy, 2022
Collage, oil on canvas over board
16” x 16”
Daphne Minkoff
Remnant #1, 2022
Collage, oil on canvas
14” x 14” sold