gugger petter is in the news

Woven newspaper paintings by Danish artist Gugger Petter. Living in California since 1986, Petter has used newspapers as a medium for her paintings for the last 18 years, rolling the paper into tubes and weaving the tubes with hemp.

At first glance, I thought these tubes of paper were tubes of old paint.

Dog With Two People 73″ x 57″

My fascination with newspaper consists not only of its being “the diary of our lives”, it also presents me with a black/white/and limited color palette, which has always been my choice. My work is most often based on an oversized image, an observation of daily life, which can be seen as an abstraction as well as a representational image, where surface, subject matter, color and content all convey tension between opposites.

Petter at Jane Sauer Gallery.

See her portrait of Barack Obama here