Oct 31, 2015
US: PHOTOGRAPHY: MELISSA EDER
Artist Statement: "I am a mixed media artist whose art explores notions related to female identity, my identity, popular culture, and kitsch. I create photo-based projects as well as draw and do installations. Quite often, my work references my upbringing in the suburban New Jersey of the 70s. In this place, I have found a dystopia of broken promises – a land where modernity, comfort and technology helped to maintain the emptiness found within the banal and status quo. The images in my portfolio New Jersey (And Other Places that Could Be Mistaken for New Jersey) act as a visual diary. They mark places of interest and nostalgia for me.
