Collaged layers of comic book pages serve as the main creative medium for these portraits by illustrator sandra chevrier. Blending portraiture with comic books, the montreal artist pays homage to everyday superheroes. Montrealbased artist sandra chevrier merges painting and collage in works that reflect upon the selfimposed limitations within our world and the underlying tragedy of oppressed female identity. Sandra chevrier mixes media with comic book portraits art. Chevrier s mixed media portraits are compelling and deceptively simple in their.
For the past several years, montrealbased painter sandra chevrier has been meticulously duplicating popular comic book cells over the top of womens faces a visual representation, she says, of how society forces ladies to become superheroes after jailing them behind convention. Sandra chevrier s masked superwomen take hong kong by storm. The comic book collage was another idea that was born by accident. Sandra chevrier levine oppression comic books hand painted portrait cage artist artworks believing that underground art is a culture that defies simple characterization, jonathan levine will exhibit a variety of celebrated, controversial, and unknown artists. Chevrier selects sections of comic books that portray fragile heroes, promoting the idea that vulnerability often underlies heroism. Sandra chevrier the cage motif is at the heart of sandra.
She does this to show the expectation society places on women. Works from sandra chevriers the cages series are created with a strong message of social freedom and an open mind imbued into the canvas. See more ideas about sandra chevrier, artist and art. In her series cages, finely handpainted portraits of women are masked with pages from comic books, symbolizing the struggle of having to uphold unrealistic expectations of beauty and. Sandra chevrier, who calls herself a gaze collector, creates hyperrealistic paintings of women that stare out towards the viewer. Made of comic book fragments which the artist collages onto her. Every woman is a superhero in these incredible comic book. Comic book portrait collages by sandra chevrier illustration, mixed media on woven paper paintings where she uses traditional mediums combined with actual pages from comic books to create her colorful and lively pieces by montreal based artist sandra chevrier. Chevrier selects sections of comic books that portray. Exhibiting a maledominated world within her cages, chevrier s subjects denounce the role given to the female counterpart therein.
Sandra chevrier currently lives in montreal, quebec. Superman, wonder woman and the green lantern fly and punch in the place of the portraits eyes, noses and mouths. Her work is full of familiar iconic comic book imagery, such as wonder woman and super man, that compound the social messages interlaced within each of her paintings. In a stunning series called super hero cages, sandra chevrier paints beautiful women covered in bold comic book prints.
I just tried some studies on paper, and people really loved it. In her series les cages, sandra chevrier challenges the false ideals of beauty and perfection that women are forced to face in todays society, as they are constantly told what they should or shouldnt be. Sandra presently works with loose and heavy textures of paint, this began when she experimented with applying paint to old drawings of women portraits. Her signature style typically features women wearing masks made out of comic books, but the idea behind these cages. Mixed media on woven paper paintings where she uses traditional mediums combined with actual pages from comic books to create her colorful and lively pieces by montreal based artist sandra chevrier. Chevrier depicts her female figures trapped inside societys suffocating cages of expectation. Chevrier s mixed media portraits are compelling and deceptively simple in their composition. The comic book collage style was born when sandra brought a lot of comic books and recycled them by. Sandra chevrier creates strange and dramatic portraits by adding comic book collages to watercolored portrait features. Sandra chevrier talks comic books, late night snacks and. Canadian artist sandra chevrier, who received a ba in visual and media arts from the university of montreal and works from her montreal based studio, is an illustrator, painter and street artist. By mixing watercolour paintings and comic book collage she creates hyperrealistic mixedmedia portraits. Illustrator sandra chevrier creates bold portraits by combining painting with collaging techniques to cover the eyes or mouths on her mysterious female subjects. Her collaged portraits are quite literally torn between the fantastical heroics and humor of comic books, and the harsher underlying tragedy of oppressed female identity.
Chevrier s collage technique, which frequently highlights epic battle scenes ripped from the pages of actual comic books, is applied rather haphazardly. And then randomly because i was not into comic books before i often go to flea markets, and i just ended up buying some comic books, the popart feel of it is interesting, the colors, the story, so i thought that it could be great. Born in 1983, chevrier got her bachelors degree in visual and media arts from uqam luniversite du quebec a montreal. She had no idea what to do with all the comics she bought, but by recycling them on to her art, the idea of creating these different cages came to life. Comic book portrait collages by sandra chevrier koikoikoi. Sandra chevrier mixes media with comic book portraits. The montreal based artist depicts feminine fashion portraiture with the help of intricate layering techniques that use popular graphic novel subject matter as its main focal point.
Montrealbased artist sandra chevrier creates vibrant mixed media artworks by adding comic book collages to watercolored portraits. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to. Sandra chevrier is a canadian contemporary pop urban artist, known for her captivating portraits of women from the cages series. Sandra chevrier mixes media with comic book portraits art comicsalliance comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and.
With work demanding to be dissected beyond its surface value, chevrier s portraits are quite literally torn between the fantastical. Thinkspace is pleased to present new works by sandra chevrier in the gallerys first solo exhibition for the canadian artist, the cages. Illustrator sandra chevriers comic book portraits hi. Sandra chevrier je nai pas peur 2018 available for. Sandra used to work in a really controlled and hyper realistic way before the. Reinterpreting the superhero mask, chevrier covers these images with a collage of comic book prints, using scenes from superman and batman to conceal the faces of these idealized women. Limited edition prints by sandra chevrier guy hepner. A dance between reality and imaginatio n, truth and deception, sandra chevrier reinterprets the superhero mask, using collage or loose and heavy textures of paint, comic book prints of scenes from superman and batman, and conceals the faces of these idealized women creating an illusion of emerging from the surreal world within the canvas.
Her work takes her traveling over a broad range of fluctuating emotional enigmas and concepts that have set the standard of our modern communication. What inspired you to explore comic books as a way of communicating themes of identity, of the expectations that are placed on women. Check out our interview with sandra chevrier below and come out to the opening of the cages. She is a gaze collector, an idea chaser and a full time single mom. Comic book portraits by sandra chevrier daily design. The series emerged from the fuse of painting and collage, as chevrier uses paint and actual comic book cuttings to produce intense mixedmedia portraits of women.
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