TROY MONTES MICHIE
Phases, 2020
Cut Paper, Book Cover, Photographs, Wire Hanger, Cut Clothing, Graphite, Grease Pencil, Polyester Thread and Acrylic on Linen
72 x 48 x 2.13 in
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Troy Montes Michie, using collage as a methodology, explores print media’s influence on mass culture and intervenes in modes of consumption. In Phases (2020), images from vintage pornography are overlaid...
Troy Montes Michie, using collage as a methodology, explores print media’s influence on mass culture and intervenes in modes
of consumption. In Phases (2020), images from vintage pornography are overlaid with drawn clothing, paint, a wire hanger, and cut textile and paper, assembling queer-coded symbolism to subvert mass media narratives. Through juxtaposition and assemblage, Michie interrogates how the Black male body has been criminalized, fetishized, and marginalized.
“Michie’s [work] suggests a commonality between tailoring and collaging, attributing to both practices a quality of artistic invention and aesthetic splendor—either on our bodies or on canvas.”
- Christian Liclair, The Brooklyn Rail
of consumption. In Phases (2020), images from vintage pornography are overlaid with drawn clothing, paint, a wire hanger, and cut textile and paper, assembling queer-coded symbolism to subvert mass media narratives. Through juxtaposition and assemblage, Michie interrogates how the Black male body has been criminalized, fetishized, and marginalized.
“Michie’s [work] suggests a commonality between tailoring and collaging, attributing to both practices a quality of artistic invention and aesthetic splendor—either on our bodies or on canvas.”
- Christian Liclair, The Brooklyn Rail
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Troy Montes Michie, using collage as a methodology, explores print media’s influence on mass culture and intervenes in modes of consumption. In Phases (2020), images from vintage pornography are overlaid with drawn clothing, paint, a wire hanger, and cut textile and paper, assembling queer-coded symbolism to subvert mass media narratives. Through juxtaposition and assemblage, Michie interrogates how the Black male body has been criminalized, fetishized, and marginalized.
“Michie’s [work] suggests a commonality between tailoring and collaging, attributing to both practices a quality of artistic invention and aesthetic splendor—either on our bodies or on canvas.”
-Christian Liclair The Brooklyn Rail