Philadelphia, PA
Galen Gibson-Cornell
Artist Talk
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About Galen Gibson-Cornell
I create paper weavings from street posters that I collect myself while exploring the walls and streets of many of the world's cities. After I pull down sheets and scraps of colorful urban paper, I return to my Philadelphia studio and begin to work slicing them into strips and fragments and weaving them back together into new and recycled compositions. I have a background in traditional printmaking. This gives me a special insight into how these street posters are produced and, as a result, I can hand-print my own sheets of colored paper to interweave into the found posters.