Art For The Magazine Lover

Vogue JUL07:pg145 (Ripeness is All)

Vanity Fair MAY08:pg269 (and, incredibly, looking not a day older)

Currently available on 20x200 are two paintings by Lauren DiCioccio. What immediately came to mind upon seeing them, was how the layout looked like that of a magazine or newspaper article. Upon further reading, I realized this was in fact the case, although even more literal than I originally thought. She used an actual page from a magazine as a template for each work:

"Fashion magazines are the source materials for my series color codification dot drawings. I make each piece on a sheet of frosted mylar laid over a magazine page. After assigning a color to every letter in the alphabet (numbers are in grayscale, 0=white and 9=black), I apply tiny dots of paint over every character on the page. Each drawing I make has a different color codification, and therefore a different palette. The resulting painting is a legible blur of dots in the form of the article’s layout — like a system of Braille for the color inclined."

Her thought processes behind these pieces are even more interesting:

"I make sculptures and paintings about my anticipatory nostalgia for obsolescing paper media objects. The softness of a read newspaper page and the glossy slickness of a fresh magazine page are sensations embedded in our physical memory — the familiarity of touching these objects allows a relationship to form in the process of consuming the information they provide. When these objects disappear from our culture and assume the homogeneous texture of a back-lit screen, I fear that some of our intimacy with the process of reading will fade."

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.