Mercedes Gertz & Nancy Louise Jones
Nymphas Dissolutio
Spanish Bride, 35x35", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
Inspired when a recently divorced friend referred to her bridal pictures as her “most valuable piece of trash”, Gertz began a 10 year odyssey of collecting her now divorced friends discarded bridal portraits and in collaboration with the artist Nancy Louise Jones, reconstructing them into Mandalas, circular symbols of what Carl Jung called “the representation of the unconscious self”, thus creating a new symbolic landscape out of the detritus of the white wedding’s once-upon-a-time broken promises. My intention is to create a space where they can exist with out the need for a groom or someone outside of themselves for completion. In this way they embody both the archetype and its consequences. Marriage and divorce are seen in the light of false expectations. Art has that power of deconstructing and constructing an idea by giving it a body and a shape.”
Mercedes Gertz was born in Mexico City. In 1990, she received her Bachelor’s degree from Parson’s School of Design. In 1993, she co-founded with Gabriela Serna a children’s art education program sponsored by the Guggenheim Museum in Mexico City. In 1997, Mercedes exhibited her Alicias collection in Mexico City. In 1998, she was awarded the Fonca scholarship for culture and arts initiative. She obtained her Masters of Fine Arts Degree in 2001 from Otis College of Art and Design. From 2001 to 2005 she was the Chief Curator of the galleries of the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles, Her graphic work is in the collection of the Museum Luis Cuevas, Mexico City.
Nancy Louise Jones is a 4th generation southern Californian whose work in painting and photography is mixed and diverse in media, celebratory in nature, exhibited and collected privately and publicly. She earned her BFA from UCLA, where she mentored with William Brice. She's been exhibiting her work in galleries throughout the US since 1982 when her first solo show at the Bridge Gallery was chosen to launch the “LA Street Scene”. In 2007 Nancy began her first foray into collaborative projects as both artist and editor for groupLA2008: An Intimate View of LA" and SC2009: An Intimate View of SoCal". Both projects were launched as part of MOPLA at Gallery SkART in Santa Monica, and Autumn Lights Festival, Pershing Square, Los Angeles.
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Barbara, 10x10", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
Martha, 24x24", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
Mercedes, 24x24", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
Nadine, 20x20", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
White Mandala, 10x10", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
Alyson, 15x15", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
Nancy, 10x10", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
Haydee, 10x10", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
Daniella, 10x10", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
Diane, 20x20", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
Veronica, 15x15", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
Mariah, 16x20", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
Maria Christina, 28x24", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
Sonia, 16x30", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
Universe #21, 36x60", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
Universe #5, 36x60", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
Universe #31, deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
Marie Claude (mother & daughter), deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
HR, 20x20", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
Louise, 20x20", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
Ana Venezuela, 20x20", deconstructed vintage photographs, archival digital print, 2012
