Listen Up! - Adele Quartley Brown's Portfolio

Listen Up!

Listen Up! unleashes a tirade of outrage on behalf of the silenced. Using discarded, shredded, and vandalized posters, I create a layered, social commentary on the marginalized, dispossessed, beautiful, famous, and anonymous who are transformed into proxies for being unheard.

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A woman's pink lips on a poster are exhaling but with a tear preventing the release of breath or the speech. Silence. Silenced. Quiet. Speech interrupted

This surrealistic image of a white woman with pink lipstick on a torn advertising poster is torn down the middle, leaving her without eyes and showing a green background with the back of a head in a ponytail. The image reflects anonymity.

A smiling Asian woman on a shredded advertising poster is seen in double as the first layer of the poster is ripped to reveal an identical one beneath it. One eye is missing, and her face is not aligned, making the portrait surreal and disconcerting,

Multiple posters peel off a wall, revealing a black, African-American woman on a color advertisement peering out as if crying, "Help!" The oppressing poster in black and white [b/w] features a close-up of an Asian woman with a neutral expression.

A shredded poster image, only a partial eye and a corner of the mouth are visible, identifiable as Isabella Rossellini, behind masked colorful orange striped later posters, and a black and white family photo inset against a green wooden barrier.

A shredded double portrait of a young white woman with long blond hair looking sad. Her duplicate image is hanging losing over the same image providing a "split personality" or schizophrenic meaning to this photo. Woeful. Forlorn. Sad. Shattered

A layered series of torn advertising posters on an urban construction wall create a sculptural effect, a totem of mixed races and genders and scales. The center is a Black male and a White woman's hand. One eye, one nose, two heads. "Get the Look"

Two mask-like faces emerge from ripped advertising posters on a dark green wooden background. An African-American woman and a White Woman. Only the mouth and nose remain of the black woman. Only one blue eye and part of the lip and nose of the White woman

A ripped advertising poster with two women whose features have been eliminated or pasted over with other posters. One is Asian. The heads of the others are missing, only the dark green wooden backdrop is showing. lots of smaller torn rips. Green pink blue

The head and hand of a female POC is obliterated by rips in a poster revealing a dark green exterior scene. Only a partial mouth, one nostril, an ear, and hair appear. Lots of white surrounds the portrait as does actual nature, with green leafy weeds.

A giant, acid-yellow open mouth screaming or singing is what remains of a larger poster. The mouth appears from under a mostly white background with one partially obscured Black man hidden behind the mouth. A vertical red banner w/black letters frames all

This image features a segment from a wall of posters and a locked door with a Master lock. The poster is of the side of a Black Man's head, with only one ear showing next to the lock. The highlights on the ear are in blue, reflecting the layered image.

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