Milano Chow: Prima Facie at Aldrich Museum

When I think of collage art, I mostly think of bright, surrealist pieces, but Milano Chow’s work is the exact opposite of that.

Her monochrome images are often created using technical drawings and blueprints and have a distinctly disquieting feel to them, almost like she has created a ghost world, or another dimension that hasn’t been completely finished.

Tucked away in the corners and behind the windows of her chimeric buildings are her “paper dolls’, pictures of women taken from fashion magazines printed in the 1970’s to 1990’s, which are applied via toner transfer to reinforce an area of mystery.

I was particularly fond of her three-dimensional works, which sat on pedestals in the middle of the gallery like tiny little worlds.

The closer you get these works, the more detail you see and I love art like that. I’m excited to see more work from Chow.

See more work from Milano Chow on her website