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Artist: RAYMOND PRUCHER (Nyack, NY)
Sold directly by the artist. Contact: raymondprucher@gmail.com. Please mention Pulp Stiction.
Year: 2026 | Medium: This is a digital collage, incorporating my own work, drawing and painting, with appropriated images sourced from contemporary media and the public domain. | Dimensions: 8 x 8 inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D) | Digital work
Artist Statement
Toni Morrison said it best, “All of that art-for-art's-sake stuff is BS. What are these people talking about? Are you really telling me that Shakespeare and Aeschylus weren't writing about kings? All good art is political! There is none that isn't. And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying, 'We love the status quo.' We've just dirtied the word
'politics, made it sound like it's unpatriotic or something. That all started in the period of state art, when you had the communists and fascists running around doing this poster stuff, and the reaction was 'No, no, no; there's only aesthetics.' My point is that is has to be both: beautiful and political at the same time. I'm not interested in art that is not in the world.”
After 9/11 happened, I became impotent in my work. How could one make art from a place of privilege in the aftermath of inhuman acts and suffering. It was only years later that I realized that while the geopolitics wanted to silence dissent and critique, my role as an artist was to be a witness and records-keeper of my brief time here. And I’m not interested in my work NOT being political.
My recent collages are an amalgam of centuries of geopolitics, and the colonialist role in bending (and breaking) the world for convenience and profit in it both foreign and domestic arenas.
In closing, I’ll quote John Lewis, who stated, “We have been too quiet for too long. There comes a time when you have to say something. You have to make a little noise. You have to move your feet. This is the time.”
From Lascaux to Bruegel, Goya to Duchamp, Rauschenberg to Kiefer, artists have been a mirror. It has always been the time to move your feet.
About the Artist
My work explores being and its residues, the substance of memory, impermanence, the dotted lines around tangibility. These collages are a reclamation of images, originally taken by the media; images that originally shocked or deluded the public, quickly forgotten along with the lives they represent. Over time, photographs become capsules that carry the aura of the time in which they were created. They record a history that cannot be repeated. In transforming these photographs into artworks, they become more indelible, a larger statement of a reality that sees neither beginning nor end.
https://raymondprucher.art/
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.
Artist: RAYMOND PRUCHER (Nyack, NY)
Sold directly by the artist. Contact: raymondprucher@gmail.com. Please mention Pulp Stiction.
Year: 2026 | Medium: This is a digital collage, incorporating my own work, drawing and painting, with appropriated images sourced from contemporary media and the public domain. | Dimensions: 8 x 8 inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D) | Digital work
Artist Statement
Toni Morrison said it best, “All of that art-for-art's-sake stuff is BS. What are these people talking about? Are you really telling me that Shakespeare and Aeschylus weren't writing about kings? All good art is political! There is none that isn't. And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying, 'We love the status quo.' We've just dirtied the word
'politics, made it sound like it's unpatriotic or something. That all started in the period of state art, when you had the communists and fascists running around doing this poster stuff, and the reaction was 'No, no, no; there's only aesthetics.' My point is that is has to be both: beautiful and political at the same time. I'm not interested in art that is not in the world.”
After 9/11 happened, I became impotent in my work. How could one make art from a place of privilege in the aftermath of inhuman acts and suffering. It was only years later that I realized that while the geopolitics wanted to silence dissent and critique, my role as an artist was to be a witness and records-keeper of my brief time here. And I’m not interested in my work NOT being political.
My recent collages are an amalgam of centuries of geopolitics, and the colonialist role in bending (and breaking) the world for convenience and profit in it both foreign and domestic arenas.
In closing, I’ll quote John Lewis, who stated, “We have been too quiet for too long. There comes a time when you have to say something. You have to make a little noise. You have to move your feet. This is the time.”
From Lascaux to Bruegel, Goya to Duchamp, Rauschenberg to Kiefer, artists have been a mirror. It has always been the time to move your feet.
About the Artist
My work explores being and its residues, the substance of memory, impermanence, the dotted lines around tangibility. These collages are a reclamation of images, originally taken by the media; images that originally shocked or deluded the public, quickly forgotten along with the lives they represent. Over time, photographs become capsules that carry the aura of the time in which they were created. They record a history that cannot be repeated. In transforming these photographs into artworks, they become more indelible, a larger statement of a reality that sees neither beginning nor end.
https://raymondprucher.art/
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.