Sally Agee, Brooklyn, NY

Found on the Street, 1991

“Passing by a dumpster on a street in Brooklyn one day, I saw a discarded book, apparently a diary of an unknown teenager. It reminded me of my own adolescence. There was humor, it was full of feeling, it was poignant. I couldn’t put it down. Its anonymity drew me in. I started embellishing it, and soon it was mine.”
—Sally Agee

“Found on the Street is nothing less than a 21st Century illuminated manuscript. Agee’s elaborate treatments (she calls them embellishments) of a dairy of a young girl writing from the 1980’s are empathetically sincere and incredibly evocative. The artwork is an enigmatic mix of naďve and intelligent urban folk approaches that seem tuned in to the tradition of mediaeval illuminations and the exuberance of contemporary underground comix. It’s almost as if Robert Crumb, Maira Kalman and Jean Pucelle were channeled into one artist.”
—Marshall Weber

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