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Joyce Donna has been an artist all her life. She started
with making her own paper dolls when she was about five years old.
Emotionally charged in both content and color, these randomly conceived images
reflect a harmonic blend of humor, modern-day metaphor, and her continued
interest in the human form. Drawing from her ever-growing stockpile of printed
media cutouts, Donna conducts an aesthetic dismemberment of figures and object,
deconstructing to the hollowness of imposed cultural icons. Without formulation
a specific design, she spontaneously rearranges these elements into a new contact
creating a language that seeks an intuitive reaction from the viewer, while
communicating a light-hearted commentary on political, social or interpersonal
issues of universal appeal. It is the final interaction of these large
and small objects in clumsy or exaggerated positions that ferrets out the
ironic foibles and comic absurdities hidden within an ostensibly serious
subject matter.
