Julia Wachtel
Untitled, 2014
£120
Limited edition four colour screen print by Julia Wachtel, exclusive to House of Voltaire. Signed and numbered by the artist.
Edition Size
60
Dimensions
71 x 71 cm
Julia Wachtel, Encore, 1988. Photo Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artist.
About The Artwork
Julia Wachtel's paintings use the language and imagery of mass culture. In this special edition print, a highly pixellated portrait of Nicki Minaj, who although her face has been cropped from the image, is highly recognisable.
About Julia Wachtel
Julia Wachtel (b. 1956, lives/ works in New York) is fascinated with the visual language of mass culture. Her paintings enter into a visual language game wherein the appropriated vernacular of mass culture is illustrated, simulated, replicated, altered and parodied. The logic of this language is disturbed just enough to provoke a meditation upon the conditions of meaning intrinsic to that vernacular. In her paintings of the 80s and 90s, Wachtel inserted grotesque, irritating cartoon characters — popular with the middle class in the 1960s and 1970s when they were seen on greeting cards, bar supplies and T-shirts – into the “readymade” lexicon of mainstream magazine and newspaper photographic images which documented the contemporary socio-political landscape of the time. Within more recent work cartoons still feature, alongside other figures from a wider source and all imagery is now culled from the internet. The artist is represented by Vilma Gold, London.