Busacca Gallery

Red Dirt is an archival pigment print and is the second in an edition of ten. This piece is from the "History Series", a collection of works made from assembling earth objects with appropriated vintage photographs. The technique is done in-camera rather than in post exposure editing. The History series has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions as well as in auction. Exhibitions include: re:Collect, The Mckinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas TX; re:Collect, Luzanky Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic; No Mountains, No Waterfalls, Bering and James, Houston TX; Her Mark, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL; Earth, FOTOFEST, Houston TX. Artist Angilee Wilkerson: In this body of work I reference the memory shared with my Oklahoma ancestors. This memory is created through handed down narratives passing through what was once “Indian Territory”, and from the multiple accounts of prophetic dreams and visions told to me by my mother, grandmother and grandfather. My appropriation of this inherited narrative is re-collected and expressed through a complex structure of memory, which diffuses the boundaries between what I have experienced first hand and what I have gathered from my kin. The being of this historical narrative remains the same while it’s presence differs. In History Series my family’s story makes itself present through the layering of natural elements native to the North Texas and Southern Oklahoma landscape with old family photographs.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_art

"Postmodern art is a term used to describe an art movement which was thought to be in contradiction to some aspect of modernism, or to have emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as Intermedia, Installation art, Conceptual Art and Multimedia, particularly involving video are described as postmodern. The traits associated with the use of the term postmodern in art include bricolage, use of words prominently as the central artistic element, collage, simplification, appropriation, a return to traditional themes and techniques as a rejection of modernism, depiction of consumer or popular culture and Performance art."