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Artist: Austin Wallace (Minneapolis, MN)
Sales for this work are handled by Pulp Stiction. Payment is made through this page.
Year: 2024 | Medium: Paper fragments. | Dimensions: 23 x 29 inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D)
Artist Statement
Before landing the challenging and joyous job of assistant librarian, I worked many jobs where I was seated before a machine or where I felt like I was merely an automaton. During these shifts I would scheme- how can I extract more value for my time? How can I reduce my effort? What must I do to turn my art practice into a factory?
This piece is a culmination of those thoughts, and all the anger and beauty fused into them. There are tools and dancing, sabo-tabbies and weapons. And at the center is the face of a man who looks strikingly like my father when he was young and before he'd resigned to 'the way things are'. Though the system beats its mandates into our heads, each day we may have small victories of progress by dreaming of something better, be that broken machines or dancing feet.
About the Artist
I am an collage artist and union-represented library worker. My work focuses on themes of male identity, labor, technology, nature, and their intersections. I primarily use illustrated material from children's books and comics to further critique how absurd our reality and systems of power are. Collage allows me to process our contemporary world and explore my memories as a young boy.
https://austinwallaceart.com/
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.
Artist: Austin Wallace (Minneapolis, MN)
Sales for this work are handled by Pulp Stiction. Payment is made through this page.
Year: 2024 | Medium: Paper fragments. | Dimensions: 23 x 29 inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D)
Artist Statement
Before landing the challenging and joyous job of assistant librarian, I worked many jobs where I was seated before a machine or where I felt like I was merely an automaton. During these shifts I would scheme- how can I extract more value for my time? How can I reduce my effort? What must I do to turn my art practice into a factory?
This piece is a culmination of those thoughts, and all the anger and beauty fused into them. There are tools and dancing, sabo-tabbies and weapons. And at the center is the face of a man who looks strikingly like my father when he was young and before he'd resigned to 'the way things are'. Though the system beats its mandates into our heads, each day we may have small victories of progress by dreaming of something better, be that broken machines or dancing feet.
About the Artist
I am an collage artist and union-represented library worker. My work focuses on themes of male identity, labor, technology, nature, and their intersections. I primarily use illustrated material from children's books and comics to further critique how absurd our reality and systems of power are. Collage allows me to process our contemporary world and explore my memories as a young boy.
https://austinwallaceart.com/
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.