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Foster’s FW/SS (2014) is a body of work, whose title is taken from fashion campaigns’ designation of [...]
Foster’s FW/SS (2014) is a body of work, whose title is taken from fashion campaigns’ designation of the seasons: fall, winter, spring, summer. The first element of the work is a collection of fashion photographs taken from different fashion magazines posted online. Through digital manipulation, the photographs are recreated to censor and highlight the omnipresent sex appeal typically portrayed by women in contemporary fashion.
With references to Pop Art, the choice of color depicted in this body of work create an appealing acceptance to these images aesthetically. The allure of the work through color and composition allows the approval of fashion photography’s explicit nature. By digitally collaging and appropriating images from fashion photography, the work manifests the female audience’s inevitable adaption of these concepts of beauty and self identification, which have become (sub)conscious stereotypes in our society and daily lives through the repetition of advertising.
With references to Pop Art, the choice of color depicted in this body of work create an appealing acceptance to these images aesthetically. The allure of the work through color and composition allows the approval of fashion photography’s explicit nature. By digitally collaging and appropriating images from fashion photography, the work manifests the female audience’s inevitable adaption of these concepts of beauty and self identification, which have become (sub)conscious stereotypes in our society and daily lives through the repetition of advertising.
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Kelly Foster was born in Washington, D.C. in 1992. Her artistic medium consists of collage, photography and graphic design. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2014 with a bachelor of fine arts in photography, along with studying at Ecole Nationale Superieur des Beaux Arts in Paris. She has interned with fashion photographers in Los Angeles and New York City and a photography studio in Paris. After graduation she moved to Zagreb, Croatia where she completed her first solo exhibition in Galerija Matice Hrvatske. She plans to continue exhibiting between Croatia and Washington, D.C.
Her work aims to manipulate an existing image to lure the viewer into a void between acceptance and rejection. Her collage work has be classified as "post pop art", taking influences from Pop Art, but recreating them in the digital age, using tools of the internet, photoshop and large scale printing to manipulate and re-create modern pop culture. Coming from a background in fashion photography, she is drawn to the fashion world but aims to critique its contemporary ideals of beauty.
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UNITED STATES
- Date of birth : 1992
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- Groups: Contemporary American Artists
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