No wonder your president has to be an actor. He's gotta look good on television. Emmett Lathrop "Doc" Brown, Ph.D. Back to the Future, 1985 It stands triumphantly—a voracious junkyard goat surmounting a catafalque of the written word, a bier of gibberish, a babel of ancient symbols. Pen pals, gone; cursive gone, love letters now exchanged in childish icons. … [Read more...]
Three collages by Alicia Cole
An entirely self-taught artist, Alicia Cole works in collage, drawing, fabric/embroidery, mixed media, works on canvas, and sculpture. While many of her drawings, paintings, mixed media, collage works, and works on canvas were created in hospitals, mental health centers, or homeless shelters, documenting hospitalization, mental health, and the shelter system, this body of … [Read more...]
Eight pieces by C.R. Resetarits
I like edges and refuse. I like rebuilding things, and I like composition, patterns, palettes, visual rhythms. The right combos make me happy or relaxed or amused. I used to rehab houses and found that was a nice physical outlet, but I'm too tired for that now so I make collages to take me out of my head and put me down on a flat palette. I try not to get ahead of the intent of … [Read more...]
Seven paintings by Judith Skillman
These are done with oil on canvas; some employ cold wax. I like minimalist landscapes and seascapes. Flowers in groups of two. No people! Rep shots are from the Pacific Northwest, my home for the past 37 years. … [Read more...]
the right of the people peaceably to assemble: an image-text sequence by Chris Gavaler
The image-text sequence "the right of the people peaceably to assemble" combines digitally manipulated photography, graphic design, and found language in a hybrid form that suits the technical definition of comics while violating comics' conventions and connotations. The eight-piece sequence is part of a larger book-length project, Words Fail. … [Read more...]
Looking/Not Looking: nine contour drawing collages by Lori Langille
The Looking/Not Looking collage series features contour drawings layered with vintage 19th century images. Here the act of contour drawing, (observing an object closely and drawing it without looking down at the page) offsets the structured approach of collage, breaking up the detailed vintage images with a loose, spontaneous line. … [Read more...]
Six new collages by Kon Markogiannis
These collages are a way to make sense of our complex, fragmented world and an attempt to impose order and unity on life's chaos. The work is mainly informed and inspired by dadaist and constructivist art-graphic design. … [Read more...]
Six collages by hiromi suzuki
For me, making collages is the most fun. First of all, I will cut the pages from the 1960s fashion magazines and the Scientific American, and put them into an empty confectionery box. Then I take the images out of the box and edit my original stories. It seems to be making paper dolls and playing in fiction as same as my childhood. After studying literature at the college, … [Read more...]
Abstract Musings: Kelly Schaub’s mixed media collages
A theatre artist and administrator for over 25 years, two main influences from the theatre guide Schaub’s work in the visual arts arena. First, she has always been moved by the ephemeral aspect of a theatre experience. Each performance is different and will never be duplicated exactly ever again. Second is the collaborative nature of the theatre, where artists with a range of … [Read more...]
Nine collages by allison anne
Certain People by Lita Kenyon
Lita Kenyon’s mixed media pieces offer hints at humanity translated through persistent, abstract shapes. Living and working in Tacoma, WA near Seattle, collage and drawing is a search for form and how to make forms with an element of surprise becalming the inexplicable, urgent and awkward. With a keen interest in process, particularly the process of exploring the space … [Read more...]
Visual poetry by Sheila E. Murphy
sophie anne edwards: Ice Poems
These poems were co-created with ice along the Kagawong River. A sheet of ice had broken off the bank and dropped into the river, leaving an exposed, flat ice ridge. I stood on the separated ice shelf below, shifting with the moving river, and penned the words with water-based ink. The ice did its thing. … [Read more...]
Four collages by Janina Aza Karpinska
I began using collage --- scraps torn from magazines, calendars, auction catalogues --- as part of a group exhibition featuring 'Icons' about 8 years ago, where I discovered my Polish-Ossetian roots came through in the rich colours and composition. Working so intuitively has made the process even quicker as I've learned to trust it more, I barely have to look at what I'm doing, … [Read more...]
Silas Plum: Cardboard Primitives
The question of value underpins everything. A decent meal. A romantic partner. Expressing vulnerability in an unfamiliar way. The right brand of rechargeable batteries. In every consideration, from the mundane to the profound, a risk/reward ratio is calculated. My work expresses and quantifies the subtle and insidious nature of constant calculation. By the conscious … [Read more...]
Four collages by Kon Markogiannis
A series of collages inspired by great artists of the past such as Kurt Schwitters. Bits and pieces of newspaper, calendar pages, and other discarded ephemera take on new life by being combined, juxtaposed and superimposed; through playful improvisation and experimentation, they form mysterious alliances proving that even the (seemingly) worthless can have value and meaning. … [Read more...]
JUNCTION by Robert R. Thurman
Rothko’s Passage Through Fear and Trembling During the Seagram Murals
“I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether on friendship or mere observation, that I have imprisoned the most utter violence in every inch of their surface.” —Mark Rothko “I would readily pay with my life For a safe place with constant warmth Were it not that life's flying needle Leads me on through the world like a thread.” —Arseniy … [Read more...]
Beatnik: Collages by Rebeka Elizegi
The series focuses on the Beat Generation as a cultural phenomenon, more specifically in the women poets who participated in the movement and who historically have had less visibility than their male colleagues. It is a tribute to those women poets, who have remained in the shadow in the history of literature. Beatnik is the derogatory term with which the conservative American … [Read more...]
Two collages and a poem by Steve Dalachinsky
The BARD (A Perfect Day #2) (for Allen Ginsberg) the Bard is Dead yet 76 yr. old Marvin Shapiro "homeless" still walks around shouting "...Cyanide metal poisoning. Cyanide metal poisoning. The Surgeon General blew it in my face." it's a cold-for-this-time-of-year afternoon & tonight i'll make another attempt at looking for the be-bop comet We … [Read more...]
Artworks by Doren Robbins
My work is connected to the folk, DADA, and Surrealist traditions of collage, photomontage, and mixed-media works discussed in Herta Wescher's book Collage and Robert Motherwell's The DADA Painters and Poets. Duende is an incident of imagination. … [Read more...]
Bowls: Six paintings by Kate Brown
These paintings are each 18 x 24, acrylic on canvas, 2018. … [Read more...]
Four collages by Jack Felice
Each collage concerns itself with merging culture with the visual image. The pieces are intended to allow the audience enough space to create individual (and at times parallel) narratives. I am interested in the imperfections of found artwork and the importance of identity. … [Read more...]
Beyond the Moment: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
There are old postcards and ephemeral photographs in my collection. Mediocre sceneries are in monochrome pictures. Anonymous people who were photographed are saying from the past, ― I am here ―. This series of visual poetry is made with old postcards. To say precisely, I will first photograph old pictures with a digital camera and output them. Photographs will be output leaving … [Read more...]
No Inherent Existence: mixed-media pieces by Hildy Maze
None of us can escape the habit of projecting thoughts and concepts onto reality itself— what Buddhists would call “pure perception”. But if we can access awareness of our inner, deeply ingrained conceptual biases, we can open new windows onto our mind. By contrast, when mind is immersed in uncontrolled emotions and mistaken, often self-preserving beliefs, we’re unable to see … [Read more...]
Visual poetry by Richard Biddle aka (bid)
Mixed-media pieces by Cynthia Yachtman
I work primarily with acrylic and latex paints, inks, papers and charcoal. My images contain many diverse layers of meaning from the universal to the specific and personal. My works are often abstract. I am frequently interested in pattern and/or creating a rich sensual surface by making layer upon layer of marks. There is often an unseen history within these layers as images … [Read more...]
Rhed Fawell: Collage and Embroidery
My collages explore the deconstruction and reconstruction of images. The process allows me to play conceptually with a theme or thought. By deconstructing the original reality of an image, I can begin to let it tell a different story. Once I find my visual starting point, I will start a process of deconstruction/reconstruction, combining the use of ripping, cutting, layering, … [Read more...]
Utterance: Paintings by Samia Soubra
Calcutta: Photographs by Buku Sarkar
After seventeen years away, I've done something most Indians of my generation don't do---return back home. When people ask me where I'm from, I always stumble. I say, I was born in Calcutta but I grew up in New York. When you are young, your awareness of the larger city is limited. I have to admit, I know New York much more intimately than I feel I know Calcutta. Calcutta … [Read more...]
12 collages by Bill Wolak
I make collages out of all kinds of materials. Most are made out of paper engravings. Many collages are digitally generated or enhanced. To begin a piece, I select some sources—either color or black and white. If I’m using magazines or prints or old books, I cut out some images or parts of images that interest me. Then I start working on a background or some other sort of … [Read more...]
my little girls dreams she is a spider: collages by Tim Stuemke
My collage is about how disparate images create their own stories. We cannot help but connect the visual dots that only exist in our own minds. … [Read more...]
Swimming in the river of bits: The digital meditation of Ryoji Ikeda’s Continuum
There is currently an exhibit at the Centre Pompidou in Paris that I was fortunate enough to visit last week by Japanese composer and artist Ryoji Ikeda. The installation, called “Continuum” seamlessly blends sound, digital projection, and space into an immersive wonder. Ikeda’s work with sound is difficult to describe. Some writers have referred to it as “cyberpunk,” with … [Read more...]
Screenpaintings by Shih Yun Yeo
The artist calls these paintings, created by a combined procedure of screen printing and painting, Screenpaintings. Silk screening technique, as it is used here, is not treating the silkscreen as a machine in Andy Warhol's days but as another type of artist's brush. Positive films are created when the artist paints on them using large Chinese brushes and ink. During the … [Read more...]
A Carving Process: Ripple by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck
I first saw Ripple on its opening night. Formally a residence in the Montrose neighborhood of Houston, Ripple is a sculpture created on site by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck who carved designs into the six-room, mid-century bungalow over seven months. Ripple was commissioned after the decision to not renovate the bungalow was made. I sat in a patio chair in the backyard for a half … [Read more...]
The cholla garden at Joshua Tree: paintings by William Clarkson
An appreciation of the Cholla bush representing survival in a harsh environment. … [Read more...]
The place where someone’s waiting for me: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
These collages have been made on screen prints which I printed several years ago. When I found the prints, just as if I read the old letters from the old friends, I felt a nostalgia. ― I miss you. ― Mom's stew is the best. ― Now I'm on a homeward-bound ship. So I will write the first line to meet them again. … [Read more...]
Visual poetry from The City of Dreadful Night by Andre Bagoo
For life is but a dream whose shapes return — James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night These pieces are excerpted from Andre Bagoo's The City of Dreadful Night, a sequence of visual poems published by Prote(s)xt, Bristol, in May 2018. They are inspired by James Thomson's poem of the same name, first published in … [Read more...]
Divine Decay by Kon Markogiannis
Divine Decay is a series of photographic/mixed media constructions informed and inspired by holy texts, illuminated manuscripts, death memorials, sacred geometry, religious icons, and Renaissance panel paintings. The work deals with memory, remembrance, and decay and tackles issues such as spirituality which is often neglected but also essential for the well-being and inner … [Read more...]
Cy Twombly’s Lepanto Green
Someone has razed the house and hung its walls vandalized by a tormented resident. Standing back affronted, but scrutinizing the display nevertheless, twelve panels come into view as if roof, hallways, furniture, and floors of this dwelling has been shunted. These are walls, scrawled upon and dirtied by a frenzied hand. These are projections, gargantuan biographical Rorschach … [Read more...]
