Valérie Belin Femme Power Collages Mix Glamour With Vintage Comics Iconography
/Collage artist Valérie Belin's color photographs just left New York's Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York. The French artist (see website) creates visually-arresting, stunning collages of women -- blending beauty, glamour, disorder, surface, social messaging and more in vibrant layers with a multifaceted vintage appeal and a Hollywood sensibility.
Crave writes: "Combining portraits of feminine glamour with iconography taken from vintage comics, Belin weaves a wonderland of psychological complexity that moves between the sunshine of the fashion photograph and the mystique of film noir to create a new genre where the polarities of good and evil and joy and despair merge with endless ambiguity. "