Claudia DeMonte
Claudia Watching TV (c. 1983)
Acrylic, glitter on pulp paper
Courtesy the artist.

“I started to make the doll figures be about me, but more universal. I was interested in all the things we do every day as women that art is never made about. It’s very different today. But, again, this is a long time ago. It was considered craft and not appropriate. You had to be serious; you couldn’t use certain materials. I mean the idea that you would use pulp paper, which is like a children’s clay material, and then make things about a woman’s daily life. Not the “important things” but the things we all spend hours a day doing that nobody honors.”

Claudia DeMonte in conversation with Melisa Christ and Alisha Kerlin, August 5, 2020.

Image description: Claudia Watching TV by Claudia DeMonte
A flat, textured, paper pulp sculpture of a woman in a long dress sitting in an armchair watching a television. The artwork is painted in bright, contrasting colors.