Auden Granger (they/them) is a paper collage artist and theatrical wardrobe supervisor. A challenge to a profoundly digital and consumerist world, Auden’s visual art uses found and creatively reused paper from a variety of sources — nothing printed, nothing purchased — to create intricate and meticulous composites of swirling color and texture. The precise repetition of their mosaic-like technique is directly informed by their autistic identity and a disability justice ideology that believes in the beauty of going slow. Their work often focuses on themes of disability, chronic pain, and psychiatric survivorship. As a wardrobe supervisor, Auden is inspired by generations of activism by garment workers for workplace safety. While traditionally perceived as a merely technical position, wardrobe workers have a tremendous capacity to either challenge or reassert the marginalization and oppression of the ‘deviant’ body and hold a tangible position of power over the physical and emotional vulnerability of the un/dressing actor. Auden is currently developing a curriculum that emphasizes the ability and responsibility of wardrobe professionals to work towards social justice and interpersonal care within the particular context of their position.
Featured Artworks
Never Quite Escape, 2023.
5"x7", paper.
All of This Can Be Broken, 2023.
9"x11", paper.
I Do Feel Small, 2023.
9"x11", paper.
Something Hidden Within You, 2021.
5"x7", paper.
To Gain a Little Time, 2021.
5"x7", paper.
May You Know Death, 2021.
5"x7", paper.