My upcoming October 16, 2018 show, “ What Universe Are We Living In?: An Alt History” veers off radically from the trajectory of my work so far.  This body of work was prompted by the disturbing 2016 election cycle and all that has followed, most especially the destructive behavior of the new president whose words and actions threaten radical overturning of norms of civil behavior, of the democratic process and international agreements.

I spent many long, fallow months contemplating what approaches to art making were open to my particular skill set and the history of my oeuvre.  Outside events presented themselves to me as cartoon ideas as, to my frustration, they did to professional cartoon artists who published theirs long before I could find my own drawing vocabulary.  But once I started playing with appropriated images I was hooked on making these collages, gleefully transforming my intense negative feelings into savaging the protagonist.

Jessica Fromm