Artist Essay : Bobi Bosson
Artist: Bobi Bosson
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Website:https://bobi-lee.com/work
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/barbieleeboss/
Bobi Lee Bosson is a graduate student and MFA candidate in printmaking at Long Beach State and a graduate assistant for our current Art 110 class. She started her work in sales then decided to get her degree in art and design. While she was interested in animation initially, she soon found out it was not for her. Being that she loved the detail in all art, she specialized in paintings, sculptures, and her most significant craft, printmaking, to show her intricate details in her work.
Bobbies’ work has a variety of textures and styles. She never seems to stick to one theme of art. Some of her paintings show a jagged structure but have specific areas of smooth surfaces. As in her painting “Jules,” you see the rustic red brick template with jagged lines in the cracks, you see an outline of a woman. The woman has smooth paint forming her body and ombre in the blue of her hair. On top of textures in Bobi’s work, she is also not afraid of color. In her painting “Roxanne,” Bobi uses bright and dark colors simultaneously. It does get hard when you use so many black or dark colors in a painting because it could overpower the other colors; however, in Bobi’s paintings, the colors seems sequential. The bright, straight, irregular lengthed lines overtop the dark background stand out and elevate the lighter colors beneath. Her artistic ability is bold and very unapologetic in the themes she showcases.
Bobbie explores different ideas in each of her works. She explores social-political commentary, but that’s not her main focus; that’s just the idea that her art shapes. While in her drag race series, Bobi depicts drag queens how they want others to see them. In her paintings “Bebe” and “Ryan,” Bobbie was able to attain pictures and express them through paintings. In her artwork of “Tide Conditions, “Bobi shows how much plastic hurts are environment. She also adds her own plastic, which makes the art sentimental to her because she can see her effect on the world.
Bobi’s work, to me, shows pride and confidence. From her sculpture “Rosie” and “Come at me Bro,” she shows and accentuates the female body. Again she has nothing against the male figure, but she says that “you can just do so much more with the female shape.” I resonate with these sculptures because it is rare to see the female body admit curves. Being that it accentuates a more prominent and fuller female body defies art that only depicts females’ smaller bodies. I admire artist that can use shape, curves, and detail to show females in different forms an sizes than just sticking to the Euro-American idea of a body structure. Bobi B doesn’t let other arts define her own, which is why her sculptures and concepts open my mind to different visions and ideas.
