Guise

Artist: Deborah Oropopallo (www.deborahoropallo.com)
Work: Guise (a series of digital prints)
Show Date/Location: Jan./Feb. 2007, San Francisco’s Gallery 16
Related Site: http://www.kehindewiley.com/

http://rhizome.org/editorial/fp/blog.php/347
Artist Deborah Oropallo’s creative foundation (oil painting) is evident in her use of digital image layering, in order to create rhythmic images. These either juxtapose, or mash-up, traditional military portraits with fetish apparel catalog models. Unlike the paintings of artist Kehinde Wiley who renders contemporary black young men in the conventional poses of military portraiture, Orapallo’s catalog pinups are grafted with remarkably analogous postures to those of our nation’s founding fathers’.