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Bay Area artist Rebeca Bollinger's new series of photo-drawings conceptually challenge the capabilities of the camera as a recorder of information. By removing visual components from selected photos both digitally and with the use of collage, the imagery is broken down into basic formal issues such as line, color and shape. Her process creates a partially abstract landscape that has the feel of a photo realist drawing with sketched parts to be filled in later or taken in a different direction altogether. Much like Robert Rauschenberg's "Erased Willem De Kooning Drawing", the results are picture fields made up of missing areas that force the viewer to conceptualize the original image.
Ms. Bollinger obtained a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993, was the recipient of a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation, a SECA Award in Electronic Media from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1996, a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1998, and the James D. Phelan video art award in 2004. Her work is included in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco.
For Rebeca Bollinger's biography, click here.
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