Krista Franklin

Krista Franklin (American, b. 1970)Hip-Hop by Default, 2009 Archival inkjet print 10 x 10 inch image on 12 x 12 inch paper Signed edition of 30   Krista Franklin is a multidisciplinary visual artist and poet who creates fantastical and surrealist works using collage, papermaking, printmaking, and installation. She often appropriates historical imagery with pop culture to merge notions of the past, present, and future, while challenging views of gender, race, and culture. Franklin regularly works with the medium of collage, appreciating how many small pieces can come together to create a greater whole. Hip Hop by Default (2009) incorporates photographs from Ebony, XXL, National Geographic, and VIBE magazines, among other sources, with pieces of sewing pattern paper onto cardboard. She has explained, “I appropriate image and text as a political gesture that chisels away at the narratives historically inscribed on women and people of color, and forge imaginative spaces for radical possibi