Wardell Milan: Works on Paper

Artist Wardell Milan works in mixed media, combining elements of photography, drawing, painting, and collage. Often incorporating cut-out photographs (including iconic images by artists such as Diane Arbus and Robert Mapplethorpe), Milan’s work imagines spaces where the marginalized body is able to express itself and move about the world freely.

Color image of a mixed media collage depicting three female figures wearing silver leaf bikinis and flexing their muscles framed in a polished aluminum frame
A white collage of a Klansman.
Color image of a mixed media artwork depicting a nude figure gazing at the viewer while holding a disembodied hand
Color image of mixed media work depicting two figures on sandy beach with swatches of blue, white, and yellow in grey frame
Color image of a mixed media artwork depicting four figures looking upwards amongst flowers and foliage framed in ebony
Black and white collage of a garden with nude women's torsos interspersed
A framed drawing of an abstract blue and pink face.
Color image of black and white mixed media collage depicting a semi nude female figure amongst flowers framed in aluminum
Color image of a mixed media collage made with black and white photographs and swatches of white and blue paint
Color image of a mixed media artwork depicting a female bodybuilder flexing
A collage of two nude figures embracing, on the canvas of a black and white park scene. The figures are surrounded by bright blue lines and shapes.
Color image of a mixed media collage depicting a nude figure with a white hood strapped by the genitals on a wooden device
Color image of a mixed media collage with a silver background depicting a semi nude female figure in the middle of flowers against a swatch of blue paint framed in black
Color image of a mixed media artwork depicting a female bodybuilder flexing
Color image of a mixed media collage depicting a figure in a jockstrap holding another figure in white hood in bondage
A framed drawing of an abstract multi-hued face and hand, floating on a brown color field.
Image of a mixed media painting of a group of people playing in the shallow ocean surf framed in a blue stained wood
A diptych of two framed collages. The one on the left is of two figures confronting in either an embrace or a fight, and the one on the right is of a figure in front of a building's door. Both are on black and white photographs.

Related Portfolios

Color image of mixed media artwork depicting a singular figure with multiple faces and one arm in grey frame

Wardell Milan: Photographic Collages
Color image of a warm toned etching depicting three figures in a field of flowers

Wardell Milan: Etchings
Color image of a mixed media artwork of a nude figure standing with silver background framed in grey frame

Wardell Milan: Paintings