Hobo Jungle, 1992

Born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1952, Annette Lemieux trained as a painter but abandoned the medium in the mid-1980s, when she began to create works based on the reuse of existing imagery and objects, which she chooses, recontextualizes, and combines in ways that create unexpected meanings.
Lemieux often draws on images from magazines, publications, and films produced in the 1940s and 1950s, a period she views as being particularly meaningful because it marked the origin of the peculiarly American lifestyle and culture at which her work takes aim.