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When we featured local pop artist Miss Mona Superhero’s duct tape drawings in the April 23 issue of our paper, we knew we’d want to see her Home Depot meets Homeland Security Act psychedelic-induced artwork again.
She’s the perfect example, in the age of Ashcroft, of someone who’s willing to tackle a terror-inducing [...]

Mona Superhero is a rising Pop-art superstar whose 15 minutes have officially commenced. In a few short months the self-taught dynamo whipped up a rather extraordinary batch of trippy tableaux rendered in precision-cut duct tape. Multicolored, sliced and diced, overlaid and underlaid in intricate fashion, with dominant central figures surrounded by ornamentation approaching the Byzantine. [...]

Don’t understand this exhibit? Stick with it.

Mona Superhero makes images with Pop, jazz and erotic sources, but look closely; it’s all duct tape.
04/14/03
D.K. ROW
It’s not your usual invitation to see fine art: Hey, Hon, let’s hit that funky little bar in Southeast Portland for a look at some of those duct tape works.
But don’t dismiss [...]

Art that sticks to the wall
By Michaela Bancud
The Portland Tribune

More proof of duct tape’s endless utility is on display at Mona Superhero’s art show at Aalto Lounge.
Superhero, a denizen of Portland’s underground arts scene, used to perform Miss Mona’s Cabaret Show at places such as Berbati’s Pan and Dante’s Caffe Italiano. Recently, she gave up [...]