Video stores may not exist anymore, but “VHS Girl” is making her own.
Based out of Illinois, artist Katie Winchester has dubbed herself “VHS Girl,” and there’s a good reason for that. Winchester’s unique specialty is recreating iconic VHS covers on VHS-sized wood blocks, which she hand-paints to evoke nostalgic memories of the dead-but-not-forgotten home video format.
Winchester’s VHS art is currently on display at art gallery Grease 3 on 3214 Cherokee Street in St. Louis, where the replicated covers are being exhibited as a sort of faux video rental store, organized by genre just like on the shelves of those long-gone mom and pop video shops.
“Katie Winchester aka @vhsgirl is a Carbondale, IL based artist who began painting iconic covers onto VHS-sized wood blocks,” Grease 3 advertises on the exhibit’s event page. “Now she has 11.9k Instagram followers, has made an appearance at Art Basel in Miami, and has done custom work for David Arquette!!”
They continue, “Winchester employs an unpretentious, purposely crude style in her paintings. She mostly replicates VHS covers, but she usually comes up with her own tagline and makes the faces goofier.”
The show is on display through August 6, and you can view horror highlights below!
