Artist Essay: BobiLee

Artist: Bobi Bosson

Media: Screen Prints, Sculpture, Painting, Mural

Website: bobi-lee.com/work

Instagram: www.instagram.com/barbieleeboss/

The artist Bobi-Lee started her journey by attending art school. She started off in art school by going into animation. She had receive many achievements due to her hard work; achievements like awards. She wanted to be a performer as well but it didn’t fit her. Bobi doesn’t refer herself as an activist artist however her work does connect to it. She speaks through her work and likes to get messy when doing so.

Bobi-Lee gets her inspiration from different places and it tells stories when she works on her art. Her designs expands through different form of art. I would say her art is typically large, usually it’s with screen printing since that’s one of her favorites to do, sculptures, and she even made a human size doll box. Most of her work is filled with colors, it’s never really dull. Bobi’s work comes in different shape and sizes; her work shows a story and has meaning to it. For example, her screen printing of the ribs with related words like racism, corruption, etc, it shows what we deal with in a day to day basis. Her work is also feminine, she focus on the woman’s body a lot. Her sculpture of the woman’s body shows a curvy body in a 3D space. She experimented on “INTERDISCIPLINARY” and built the shape of a woman’s body to have pictures on it like a butterfly.

The ideas I get from Bobbi Bosson work is the problems we have in real life or how the world could be. She demonstrates the beauty in drag queens in her art of screen printing, that drag queens are just as beautiful as everyone. We all have experiences, and that also comes with makeup as well. She also brought attention to the worlds hatred words like racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. Bobbi shows the issues we deal with and mostly every single person has dealt with a political or social issue. Not only she brings that issue but she shows woman’s power in her art with colors and the body of women.

I personally love Bobbi Bosson work, it showed so much meaning behind her designs that you can tell what it’s about. It showed the problems we have back then that continues til this day. I could see that she’s passionate about her work and it speaks to me that people who can’t draw like myself, can see what we’ve been wanting to say onto a painting or design. It shows every detail that we all need to see. Her work shows that we need to be aware of other losses like her tribute to Mexico on the massive earthquake they had. Not only she paid tribute, but she spreads love through her work for the LGBTQ+ and women. She brings issues in her art that I love because we all need to pay attention to this like the plastic that she collected from her house. We all need to take this seriously and bring love and show the reality in our world.