JODY ZELLEN

This Artforum Collages series of works are created from and exist entirely from cut up Artforum magazine pages. They are a commentary on the art world, on the viewer and the observed, and have a kind of beautiful immediacy that’s unique, especially as a result of their intimate size.

Jody Zellen is a Los Angeles based artist who works in many media simultaneously. She received a BA from Wesleyan University (1983), a MFA from CalArts (1989) and a MPS from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (2009). She has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1989, and is the recipient of numerous prestigious grants, including a City of Los Angeles COLA Fellowship.

Zellen aims to create visually engaging projects that draw from and reference both the media and a physical environment, while simultaneously presenting them anew. She makes interactive installations, mobile apps, net art, animations, drawings, paintings, photographs, public art, and artists' books. What motivates her as an artist is to learn how to use and then integrate technology into artworks that enliven and activate both public and private spaces. Her works take advantage of chance juxtapositions to inspire thinking about relationships between what is seen and what is imagined. She easily flows back and forth between analogue and digital processes.