Ellen Frances Tuchman

Ellen Frances Tuchman

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    • IT'S ONLY A HOBBY
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IT'S ONLY A HOBBY
2017-18
Mixed media on a digital collage printed on pearlized paper
w/ frame: 36.25 x 34 inches

“Grounded with a pearlescent purple grid, with its suggestion of a brothel boudoir, and a myriad of beaded images, this not-too-subtle imagery abounds with sexual innuendo.” NANCY COHEN ISRAEL


Materials include: acrylic paint and colored pencil, hand-sewn elements including vintage ephemera, trinkets, charms, playing cards, postcards, stereoscopic card, watch, patches, pins, waxy paper cup, buttons, photos, pulp fiction paperback, toys, girl scout badges, garbage pail kids card, cigarette box, rhinestones, beads, sequins and thread