JoAnne McFarland Collages
 

1. CALL AND RESPONSE DRESS, 2005
Collage on Paper
11" x 13"

2. TOBACCO DRESS, 2005
Collage on Paper
12" x 13"

3. BOTANICAL DRESS, 2001
Collage on Paper
12" x 14" 

4. KINGSBOROUGH DRESS, 2001
Collage on Paper
14" x 16"

5. PROVIDENCE DRESS, 2004
Collage on Paper
11" x 14"

6. MY BLACK BABY MINE, 2006
Collage on Paper
20" x 26" 

7. TABERNACLE DRESS, 2005
Collage on Paper
11" x 14"

8. CONJURE DRESS, 2005
Collage on Paper
11" x 13"

9. RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, 2007
Collage on Paper
12" X 14"

10. NOBLESSE OBLIGE, 2007
Collage on Paper
12" X 14"

11. LIFE CYCLE OF THE AMERICAN BEAUTY, 2007
Collage on Paper
12" X 14"

12, LOST IN TRANSLATION, 2007
Collage on Paper
12" X 14"

13. JUMELLE, 2007
Collage on Paper
12" X 14"

Call Response Dress Tobacco Dress Botanical Dress Kingsborough Dress
Call Response Dress Tobacco Dress Botanical Dress Kingsborough Dress
Providence Dress My Black Baby Mine Tabernacle Dress Conjure Dress
Providence Dress My Black Baby Mine Tabernacle Dress Conjure Dress
Right to Bear Arms Noblesse Oblige Life Cycle of the American Beauty Lost in Translation
Right to Bear Arms Noblesse Oblige Life Cycle of the American Beauty Lost in Translation
Jumelle
Jumelle
Portrait of JoAnne McFarland

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About the Collages
"McFarland...reaches into the recesses of a people's collective memory to bring forth [objects] whose associations are as complex as they are nostalgic."

—Geoffrey Jacques, THE GARMENT MAGICAL

In my dress collages I use antique botanical prints, turn-of-the-century newspaper and magazine ads, sheet music, and sepia colored rice papers that suggest bark, wood, earth and skin, particularly African-American skin.

—JoAnne McFarland