Arturo Herrera

Assignment: Select an artist from Art21 and present his life and work to the class.

So I looked through all the artists' work and after doing those collages I picked Arturo Hererra:

He collages together images from Disney films, coloring books, his own abstract paintings and drawings, etc. They look like this:



This is a felt wall hanging:
I found out that what he tries to do is take an innocent image we recognize and are so attached to and contaminate it the way you see here.

Assignment: Channel your artist. Make a piece about yourself.

At this point I had just finished a collage for my drawing class and was excited to make some based off Herrera's work. I rechecked out the library book of his work I had taken out and looked through it over and over.

While I was home for thanksgiving I went up into my attic and took down a box of children's books I used to love. I picked out some favorite illustrations and scanned them to collage with some print outs of my paintings and other elements. Here's what I came up with: