Coiffed: A Typology of Entropic Variations
Ninja March 18th, 2009
Talia Greene is a multi-media artist who incorporates photography, digital printing, drawing, and sewing in her work. She received her BA with departmental honors in art from Wesleyan University in 1998 and her MFA from Mills College in 2002. She will be exhibiting in upcoming shows at the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in Harrisburg, PA, the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, and the Sonoma Museum of Visual Art.
In Talia’s print series entitled, Coiffed: A Typology of Entropic Variations, altered cabinet cards reference the urge to control nature, and its futility, with a playful exaggeration of the quotidian frustration of taming our hair. In each portrait, the hair takes on a life of its own in the form of a swarm of flies. It grows; runs wild; starts to conform; then runs wild once more. With each new hairstyle, the sitter takes on a new identity. Even as we try to impose our will on nature, nature imposes its anarchy on us.
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