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Artist: Nellie Seigel (Chicago, IL)
Sales for this work are handled by Pulp Stiction. Payment is made through this page.
Year: 2025 | Medium: Handmade paper, Vintage Ephemera, Cut Me Up Magazine fragments | Dimensions: 8x10 / 16 x 18 Framed inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D)
Artist Statement
Our current administration is determined to disrupt, deny, obstruct, destroy, obliterate, endanger or break (the seven deadly sin-onyms) everything kind, good or beautiful. It is the opposite of the humanism that birthed the Italian Renaissance. We find ourselves in a reverse renaissance trying to turn us back to the dark ages and cancel the sacred feminine. The center image is a marble statue by Giambologna which stands in the loggia outside of the Uffizi Gallery - a public work personally selected in 1583 by Lorenzo Medici himself - and the hands are from the "Creation of Adam" panel in the Sistine Chapel. Here the hands are engaged in bureaucratic obstruction or anti-creation as they place a crude rejection label over the woman. The "Reject" label is cut from a 1959 Ladies' Home Journal article describing the life of a Czech family hoping to emigrate to the United States and their optimism despite multiple denials. Strange thing to read flanked by saccharine "American Dream" technicolor ads for Miracle Whip. We must work together, support each other and keep hope alive that the good will prevail.
About the Artist
Raised in idyllic rural Kentucky, Nellie's ceramicist father and art quilter mother instilled a love for crafted forms and expressions in texture, color and pattern. In an attempt to be practical within the arts, Nellie studied theater scenic design at DePaul University and then promptly moved on to other things. While always dabbling in various textile arts, painting and mosaics, Nellie has landed on collage as the best medium for it's combinations of clandestine and careful curation as well as intricate manipulations of tiny bits in pleasing ways to set the stage and tell a story.
https://www.instagram.com/kentucky_shorty/
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.
Artist: Nellie Seigel (Chicago, IL)
Sales for this work are handled by Pulp Stiction. Payment is made through this page.
Year: 2025 | Medium: Handmade paper, Vintage Ephemera, Cut Me Up Magazine fragments | Dimensions: 8x10 / 16 x 18 Framed inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D)
Artist Statement
Our current administration is determined to disrupt, deny, obstruct, destroy, obliterate, endanger or break (the seven deadly sin-onyms) everything kind, good or beautiful. It is the opposite of the humanism that birthed the Italian Renaissance. We find ourselves in a reverse renaissance trying to turn us back to the dark ages and cancel the sacred feminine. The center image is a marble statue by Giambologna which stands in the loggia outside of the Uffizi Gallery - a public work personally selected in 1583 by Lorenzo Medici himself - and the hands are from the "Creation of Adam" panel in the Sistine Chapel. Here the hands are engaged in bureaucratic obstruction or anti-creation as they place a crude rejection label over the woman. The "Reject" label is cut from a 1959 Ladies' Home Journal article describing the life of a Czech family hoping to emigrate to the United States and their optimism despite multiple denials. Strange thing to read flanked by saccharine "American Dream" technicolor ads for Miracle Whip. We must work together, support each other and keep hope alive that the good will prevail.
About the Artist
Raised in idyllic rural Kentucky, Nellie's ceramicist father and art quilter mother instilled a love for crafted forms and expressions in texture, color and pattern. In an attempt to be practical within the arts, Nellie studied theater scenic design at DePaul University and then promptly moved on to other things. While always dabbling in various textile arts, painting and mosaics, Nellie has landed on collage as the best medium for it's combinations of clandestine and careful curation as well as intricate manipulations of tiny bits in pleasing ways to set the stage and tell a story.
https://www.instagram.com/kentucky_shorty/
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.