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Artist: Brieanne Beaujolais (Columbus, OH)
NOT FOR SALE. This work is part of the exhibition and is not available for purchase.
Year: 2026 | Medium: paper from books, wrapping paper, book covers, tissue paper, fabric, modge podge | Dimensions: 11x12n1/4 inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D)
Artist Statement
Green Light was made in response to the closing lines of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. It is the image of a boat beating against the current, carried ceaselessly backward even as it strains toward the future. It aspires to be an honest literary depiction of the human condition in which we are simultaneously pulled through longing and loss, and we are forced to navigate the tension between hope and nostalgia.
The collage medium was not incidental. Every piece of torn paper represents a piece of our past life. Colors and textures from another context . To build something new from these fragments is itself an act of resistance against erasure. Old materials become the building blocks for a new vision. Colors and textures from other contexts are used to represent something imperfectly new.
The sailboat navigates the ocean with a massive wave threatening to swallow it. The tension is unresolved. This is not a story of triumph or defeat, but rather, it is one of resilience and persistence.
This is how a perceive resistance: broken pieces that, when assembled thoughtfully, create something beautiful. Despite everything, we still move forward with hope for a better future while carrying with us the pain and trauma from the past.
About the Artist
I work primarily in collage, origami, watercolor, and mixed media , forms that require accumulation. Landscapes are built from hundreds of strips of patterned paper. Figures are folded from found material. Text is embedded in image. The act of assembling fragments into a coherent whole mirrors what I do professionally as a researcher studying trauma, resilience, and empowerment. Both practices ask the same question: what do we accumulate, what do we shed or carry with us, and what do we build using what we have?
I am interested in resilience. Much of my professional work centers on women navigating systems, violence, and survival. My art does not typically illustrate that work, but it comes from the same place of believing that what seems to be (and often is) overwhelming can also be examined, named, and transformed.
https://www.instagram.com/briesistance/
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.
Artist: Brieanne Beaujolais (Columbus, OH)
NOT FOR SALE. This work is part of the exhibition and is not available for purchase.
Year: 2026 | Medium: paper from books, wrapping paper, book covers, tissue paper, fabric, modge podge | Dimensions: 11x12n1/4 inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D)
Artist Statement
Green Light was made in response to the closing lines of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. It is the image of a boat beating against the current, carried ceaselessly backward even as it strains toward the future. It aspires to be an honest literary depiction of the human condition in which we are simultaneously pulled through longing and loss, and we are forced to navigate the tension between hope and nostalgia.
The collage medium was not incidental. Every piece of torn paper represents a piece of our past life. Colors and textures from another context . To build something new from these fragments is itself an act of resistance against erasure. Old materials become the building blocks for a new vision. Colors and textures from other contexts are used to represent something imperfectly new.
The sailboat navigates the ocean with a massive wave threatening to swallow it. The tension is unresolved. This is not a story of triumph or defeat, but rather, it is one of resilience and persistence.
This is how a perceive resistance: broken pieces that, when assembled thoughtfully, create something beautiful. Despite everything, we still move forward with hope for a better future while carrying with us the pain and trauma from the past.
About the Artist
I work primarily in collage, origami, watercolor, and mixed media , forms that require accumulation. Landscapes are built from hundreds of strips of patterned paper. Figures are folded from found material. Text is embedded in image. The act of assembling fragments into a coherent whole mirrors what I do professionally as a researcher studying trauma, resilience, and empowerment. Both practices ask the same question: what do we accumulate, what do we shed or carry with us, and what do we build using what we have?
I am interested in resilience. Much of my professional work centers on women navigating systems, violence, and survival. My art does not typically illustrate that work, but it comes from the same place of believing that what seems to be (and often is) overwhelming can also be examined, named, and transformed.
https://www.instagram.com/briesistance/
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.