"Modernism is pleased to present its second exhibition of collages by Eva Lake. In Relics of Beauty, striking images are constructed from an array of art history and archaeology photography paired with pop-culture imagery of 20th-century women. The result is a body of work that rewrites the historical record with softness and femininity, and challenges the pervasive societal notions surrounding beauty."
"In the spirit of Hannah Höch [1889-1978] who appropriated and recombined images from mass media to critique popular culture, Eva Lake's collages are saturated with cultural criticism. Rooted in scholarship and composed of archival imagery from publications such as Gardner's Art Through the Ages (1926) and The Metropolitan Museum of Art's S panish Paintings: From El Greco to Goya (1928), Lake's deep understanding of this material allows her to produce a cutting cultural commentary that questions existing structures of power and sexism in the art world and beyond."
Eva Lake constructs collages from art history and archaeology photographs paired with pop-culture imagery of 20th-century women. Her work rewrites the historical record with softness and femininity and challenges pervasive societal notions of beauty. Lake studied art history and archaeology at the University of Oregon and painting at the Art Students League of New York, and worked for decades as a makeup artist and in fashion. The collages unite scholarship-based archival images with beauty and fashion aesthetics to question power structures and sexism in the art world. An exhibition, Relics of Beauty, opens with a public reception on February 12, 6–8 PM.
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