COWBOY CUTOUTS

In Cowboy Cutouts, the artist’s process begins with a found image of a cowboy thrifted from old vintage magazines. The found image is then enlarged and printed on a photo film, transferred onto a wood panel through a chemical manipulation carefully crafted by the artist over the years. From this imprinted photo transfer process, Jamie then adds an abstract composition of colors and text, each piece becoming a unique artwork addressing a social construct around cowboy fascination. In this work, Jamie questions the ultra-masculine American role models she grew up watching in old Hollywood movies. Surrounded by a dominant media consumerist culture where male cowboys were superheroes and women were bare entertainments, she revisits the iconography from her feminine perspective with humor and candor, encrusting flowers into her compositions to break the illusion that the West was a stage for cowboys only.