Founding Fathers -UV Texture Print Edition of 13

Bananas for Scale – Jan. 6th – WSJ 1/7/2021
Founding Fathers UV Texture Print Edition  $1105.24*
Layered UV texture Print on Aluminum by POV printing, LA
Reproduction mimics 3D relief of cuts and texture of original collage.
10 x 10 inches, floating back frame ready to hang
Limited Edition of 13**
Signed,  numbered, and Certificate of Authenticity

* Election Day 2024
**13 original colonies, 13 insurrectionists from the front page.

Original collage made only of cut newspaper and clear acrylic medium.
Yes, those are individual cut out stock symbols.

One moment. One issue. One newspaper.

In Bananas For Scale, Hartigan Goldstein looked on, baffled with the rest of the country, as January 6, 2021, unfolded in the news.  Every parental lesson she had ever tried to impart to her children, was blatantly disregarded by the politician in our highest office. Combining recently painted studies of a nontraditional still-life fruit with next morning’s newspaper, Kelly funneled her frustration into an obsessive search for tonal value  and productive discourse amongst even the smallest text of black and white.

A timely piece, this is Kelly’s first collage reproduction. In Fall 2024 Kelly partnered with VoteForward.org  a 501(c)(4) non profit, with a fine art print benefit donating over $1600 to their mission to empower grassroots volunteers to encourage their fellow citizens to vote.

Southern Californian artist, Kelly HartiganGoldstein, works in rumination and daily newspaper headlines merging the lens of individual experience with social discourse in contemplative collage. Finding herself distressed in 2018 by the relentless news cycle and incessant demands of family life, she turned to collage to reconcile contradictory political debate with life’s smaller pressing moments. Using only newspaper from a single date, and sometimes just a singular edition, a detailed written image emerges from her day, composed exclusively of cut paper and the weight of the reported word.