Artist Essay 1- Bobbie Lee Bosson
Odalys Chavez-Luna
Professor Zucman
Art 110 MW 3:30–4:45
25 September 2020
Artist: Bobbie Lee Bosson
Media: Mixed-Media
Website: https://bobi-lee.com/work
Instagram: barbieleeboss
Bobbie Lee Bosson is the graduate assistant for our class, Art 110, and is currently a California State University Long Beach artist at MFA. Bobbie is a multidisciplinary artist and is currently focusing on her printmaking work. She studied and got her bachelor’s degree from California State University Channel Islands and is currently a freelance graphic designer. Her work tends to push towards social and environmental issues naturally although she does not intend for that to be the case. In all of Bobbie’s work she loves to go into detail regardless of if it’s a painting a sculpture or a graphic design. Her work explores the female body, social issues, environmental issues, and humanity.
Bobbie’s works have different mediums, but in the case of the work “Resist” the medium was mono print and it is a 19” x 13” piece. This piece depicts a human rib cage with words such as corruption transphobia ableism and many others in Black ink. An interesting thing about this piece is that it also has love written throughout the piece in red which makes it stand out despite the other horrible words written on top that might try to overpower it. What stands out about this is that the eye is attracted to the red words saying love even though there’s so much of the bad. What one can take from this piece is that love will try to resist even if things such as transphobia and homophobia exist.
The artist, Bobbie, starts conversations with her pieces including conversations about social and environmental issues, but also things such as female empowerment. What the artist is naturally drawn to from what you can tell about her art is making the world a better place by displaying these issues and empowering entire communities. For example, she depicts the female body and empowers women through her art.
How her art resonates with me is by being a woman I really appreciate the way that she displays the woman and does women justice by not having a societies version of beauty. One example of this is her covering one of her sculptures in tattoos which is thought to be masculine, but she made a very feminine look out of it. As a woman her pieces are empowering and show me that women truly are a work of art. I also really loved that she takes time to do portraits of drag queens because the LGBTQ+ community deserves to be on display in the way that she is doing, and I think that her pieces are magnificent and show these queens as the royalty they are. Finally, Bobbie’s pieces or truly breathtaking and I feel like everyone can relate to one of her pieces.
