In my work, I celebrate the eroticism and dynamism of the female body, often nude or semi-nude as part of a fantasy. Your images of naked (or semi-naked) women in your artwork are consistent - what do they represent to you?įirst of all, I absolutely love the female form. Raven was kind enough to talk to us about her work: what inspires her, what it means to her, and in keeping with this week’s theme, whether her own work makes her blush. I first saw her work in an exclusive gallery in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, children in tow, and found myself knocked out by their loopy genius. The collage artist, born in Paradise, California in 1973, has been exhibiting her paintings for over 20 years, with solo exhibitions in New York, Dallas, Berlin, Frankfurt, Bonn, Konstanz, Basel and Paris. Raven Schlossberg’s world is a psychedelic, technicolor utopia of sexual symbols - think The Garden of Eden on acid - with woman as subject and object both. Detail from “10 inch (The Sweet Spot)” (All artwork courtesy of the artist)
