Artist Analysis – Molly Zuckerman Hartung

Molly Zuckerman Hartung was born in 1975 in Los Gatos but now lives and creates her art work in Chicago.

For many of Molly Zuckerman Hartung’s work, she used a variety of mediums such as latex, house paint (emulsion), enamel and stray paint and most of the time she used a drop-cloth to apply these materials. On other pieces she also used more three dimensional materials in order to create a more textured look whilst still using her normal mediums in the background. As her work breaks away from 2D it is almost classed as sculptural.

Techniques-

Zuckerman Hartung doesn’t just apply her mediums she first does mark making with her materials such as cutting, pulling, twisting and dying them. Her paintings are sewn together from pieces of drop cloth which is a material that is commonly used to protect floors in houses from dripping paint when decorating.

Reflection to my work-

From Zuckerman Hartung’s work I gathered her use of mark making was very interesting and included it in my own work by using lots of different materials such as newspaper, coffee and graphite to simply create an imagine of how I feel or interpret an object.