
Manshirt
This compelling mixed media collage features a deconstructed shirt or jacket, meticulously crafted from vintage maps and textual fragments. The artwork employs a rich palette of blues, teals, and earthy browns, set against a dark background adorned with celestial charts. It offers a unique exploration of identity and journey through its intricate layering and cartographic elements.
- Medium
- Collage and mixed media on canvas
- Signed
- Yes
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Wangechi Mutu
Kenyan · b. 1972

Mutu creates intricate mixed media collages that layer maps, text fragments, and found materials to explore identity and the body, closely mirroring Nelson's use of cartographic elements and vintage ephemera to construct figurative forms charged with personal and cultural meaning.

Deborah Butterfield
American · b. 1949

Like Nelson, Butterfield reconstructs recognizable figurative forms from layered and fragmented found materials, creating work where the texture and history of the materials themselves carry deep narrative weight about identity and journey.

Mark Bradford
American · b. 1961

Bradford's large scale mixed media collages incorporate dense layers of maps, text, and found paper fragments set against dark atmospheric grounds, creating works that share Nelson's rich blue and earth tone palette and use of cartographic and textual elements to explore identity and place.
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