Recycling Fine Junk into So-So Art

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Self Taught Assemblage Mosaic Jewelry Glass

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Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Sculpture

I am...

still figuring that out..

About my artwork

I assemble vintage found objects into funky new sculptures.

Cat Bishop's work explores the disconnect between the self each of us harbors inside and the self we present to the world. If our outward appearances were to accurately reflect the incongruity we feel inside, on a daily basis, we'd look like these people--eyes asymetrical, faces askew, legs off at uncomfortable angles, ill matched jello molds for boobs. The work is about the ways we assemble ourselves, the cobbling together of a self more presentable than the one we know. In this way what Bishop creates are also masks and disguises. So while the work is, in a deep way, about self-perception, self-scrutiny and self-flaggelation, the artist clearly has fun with it. The faces and figures come across as comical and entertaining, not dark or menacing.

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