DINAH KIRGO is an Emmy award-winning TV show writer turned Fine Artist. Her dense collages swirl with lively imagery that pulls from the past, which merge with the present. Her work stems from a series of childhood hallucinations she experienced after a family trip viewing Europe’s circuses.
“Pink Owl”, Collage on Paper
Kirgo painstakingly hand cuts each tiny piece, often grabbing images that intrigue her from the internet. Most of these images harken back to an other-worldly past. The viewer is impacted with a constellation of historical “bits”. Animals, both real and fictitious, along with references to magic and the occult flood the viewer in a dense web. A hauntingly beautiful, chaotic and whimsical past is brought forward, and the great search begins…
“Mask”, collage on paper
More examples of Dinah Kirgo’s work can be seen at ALTERED SPACE GALLERY
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