Leigh Salgado – Artillery Magazine
by Betty Ann Brown | May 5, 2015
Our clothes are, as Virginia Woolf reminds us, more than “vain trifles” serving “to merely keep us warm.” Instead, as Woolf asserts, “They change our view of the world and the world’s view of us.” Art that turns our attention to our clothes illuminates how we see each other and how we are seen.
Leigh Salgado uses paper, paint and grommets to depict women’s clothes, especially lace-lined lingerie: bras, panties, corsets. Her cut-paper portrayals of women’s undergarments have roots in both the high art of the European avant-garde and the craft practice of papel picado.