Copenhagen

Amidst the bustling streets and graffiti-fueled art scene of New York City, Cameron began experimenting with paper sacks as a medium for her artwork. Sourced from her daily life and travels, then cut, patched, glued, and stenciled into something new, the shopping bags are both imbued with personal memories and more broadly representative of the signs, symbols, and sayings of 1980s and 1990s popular culture. As art historian Fraser Brough notes, Cameron’s work repurposing and transforming the discarded materials of everyday life “still looks fresh, raw without being messy, expressive without being naïve.”

Year: 1990
Medium: Acrylic and spray paint on paper bag
Size: 24.25 x 31 in (61.6 x 78.7 cm)

Moira Cameron’s acrylic and spray-painted paper bag work, Copenhagen, shown here unframed.

Copenhagen by Moira Cameron unframed shown photoshopped to scale alongside a six-foot figure.

An upper left detail image of Moira Cameron’s acrylic and spray painted paper bag work, Copenhagen.

Lower right detail image of Moira Cameron’s Copenhagen, a mixed media work comprised of acrylic and spray paint on a repurposed paper bag.

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