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Mixed Media, Acrylic on Acrylic
Size: 36 W x 36 H x 2 D in
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
One of the most recent additions to the Leading Ladies, meet Bette. In 1956, Bette Nesmith Graham was a single mom in Dallas, working as an administrative assistant. Frustrated that the newest electric typewriters could not fix mistakes, Bette applied her painting skills to create a gouache paint that enabled corrections. With the help of her young son Michael (who later joined The Monkees), she filled empty nail polish bottles with “Mistake Out” and formed her business. Renamed Liquid Paper, Bette’s business became the leading typewriter correction fluid in the world. In 1979, Bette sold the business to Gillette for $47.5 million. "Bette" is made from the pages of a 1960s typing lesson manual, ink and acrylic paint. The background is woven from pages of typed information about Bette that the Artist "corrected" with drops of Liquid Paper (notice the scattered white dots).
Original Created:
2024
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DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Mixed Media:
Acrylic on Acrylic
Original:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
36 W x 36 H x 2 D in
Frame:
Not applicable
Ready to Hang:
Yes
Packaging:
Ships in a Box
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Kristy Battani
United States
Viewers are often initially drawn to my work because of the bold colors, patterns and movement, but upon closer inspection they are pulled into a world of tiny details, one bleeding into the next, creating a fantastical narrative from the bits of the original source material that remain unobstructed. I begin each piece by deconstructing a single source material so that I no longer see it in the form it was originally presented, looking to uncover repeating forms, images, colors and ideas that will form the basis of the artwork. As I start to build the layers of the artwork the process is less an act of collage as a re-weaving of the original source material in a form that allows the viewer to interact with the ideas contained in those materials in a new way. Perhaps my favorite comment I regularly get from visitors: “I could get lost in your work for hours.”
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Handpicked to show at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art in Dallas, Dallas, Dallas
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