Rosalyn Drexler is a creative person who is so accomplished that I find her presence in the world to be incredibly inspiring and humbling all at the same time. This is a woman who, at various points in her life, performed as a professional wrestler, exhibited paintings alongside some of the most famous names in Pop Art (including Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein), and published multiple novels inspired by her colorful life experiences.
The reason I think her artwork is especially relevant to discuss here is that she appropriates images from cinema stills and movie posters and re-contextualizes them to evoke new layers of meaning. I see a lot of people creating similar work with found images all the time on Tumblr (Negative Pleasure comes to mind), so it's interesting to see a similar approach to out-of-context movie stills in an analog medium.
Rather than attempting to unpack her place within the art world, I'll let her images speak for themselves. I have a feeling many of my fellow genre movie fans will find a lot to love in her art!
Here's a sampling of online articles about Rosalyn Drexler:
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I studied pop art for a little while in my school art class, so why the hell haven't I heard of Rosalyn Drexler? Although to be fair, I was mainly spending my time with Trashy Fashion (I was the only guy in my art class, but instead of doing something else, I decided to go along with Trashy Fashion, resulting in one of the more embarrassing moments of my life, which is caught in photo form on a CD which I have hidden for life; the rest of the world doesn't need to know about the time when I dressed in a hoop-gown made from wire mesh and torn up Mills & Boons books and sung Sweet Transvestite while parading on a catwalk in front of the whole school).
Well..Sweet Transvestite was playing in the background. I wasn't THAT crazy.
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