My work elevates the overlooked and the mundane through a process of cutting, reconfiguring and unifying a variety of handmade, found and discarded materials. Using paper ephemera whose original … [Read more...]
Behind the Scene: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
We can see the lights in the distance. Through the thin papers coated with Linseed oil. The Lumière brothers said, "The cinema is an invention without any future". The cine projector continues to … [Read more...]
Four Paintings and a Poem by Stephen Lee Naish
Untitled a Coke machine a smile a casual "hi" a walk barefoot in cut grass a door a gas station a pencil a paperclip a desire to be anything you want a bed a … [Read more...]
On Henry James: Four Erasure Poems by Andre Bagoo
Minimizing Monetization Earth: Agnes Denes’ Art
Is there truly any art that can surpass the beauty and majestic power of nature itself? Wasn’t it Neil Young who said “Nature is a monument to be preserved,” or words to that effect? The earth is … [Read more...]
In Goya’s Dark Room
I wish we could stand behind the man who is painting over the old paintings, whose clothes are covered with ochre, in his atelier where many candles are lit. Though he doesn’t like being watched, if … [Read more...]
Two collages with found poetry, by Alessandra Bava
In the past few days, as I am experiencing a whole new life in quarantine, a friend asked me to join a collage group on FB. I had stopped making collages when I was in primary school. I am enjoying … [Read more...]
Kombinations: Four collages by Kon Markogiannis
Collages on old book covers influenced by dadaism, constructivism and surrealism. … [Read more...]
To Ride a Horse: The Art of Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Perceptions of Nature in an Age of Decline
Think of seeing a horse. How often do we see a horse as something we can ride, and can we learn to look at horses without ever thinking about how humans can use them? When we see mountains, how often … [Read more...]
Nine Mixed Media Collages by Kelly Schaub
Visual poetry by Kon Markogiannis
Experimental work combining scrap papers, collage, photography, found text, and fragments of poetry. … [Read more...]
Screaming To Escape From All Limitations: An Interview with John Digby
John Digby was born in London in 1938. He began writing Surrealist poetry from the early 1970s. He was influenced by Breton, Eluard, Arp, and Desnos. Although he was living in England, the first … [Read more...]
In Our Veins: Paintings by Amy Guidry
The premise of my series “In Our Veins” is to explore the connections between all life forms and the cycle of life. Through a psychological, and sometimes visceral, approach, this series investigates … [Read more...]
Mutinous Jester: The Collage Novels of Akbar Del Piombo
Akbar del Piombo — illustrious subterranean luminary, mysterious, pseudonymous author of six darkly comic, wildly satirical collage novels. Akbar del Piombo — preposterous, portentous name, once … [Read more...]
Thought Notes From My Open Side: Mixed-Media Work by Michelle Firment Reid
A multidisciplinary artist, I choose the medium I feel best conveys my concept and intent. I express my emotions as a visual narrative open to interpretation; not at all fixed, but with the desire to … [Read more...]
Blanc Casse: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) It is a memorable line in The Great … [Read more...]
Everything is Zero Calorie: Watercolors by Yen Yen
My work is an imaginary world that starts from my obsession with food, especially sweets. Growing up in Taiwan, I remember going to supermarkets and bakeries with my parents and longing for all the … [Read more...]
geographies by Mark Young
The visual geographies are manipulated art works, sometimes derived from the actual place named, sometimes not. They're aligned with the text poetry produced under the same umbrella title, but … [Read more...]
Ten Xerox transfers by Natalie Bradford
I explore the ideas of memory, absence, mortality, and the passage of time in my prints. Our memories are naturally inconsistent and fleeting; It’s impossible to remember everything in our lives … [Read more...]
Eight found-word collage poems by J.I. Kleinberg
These visual poems are from an ongoing series of collages (1900+) built from phrases created unintentionally through the accident of magazine page design. Each contiguous fragment of text (roughly the … [Read more...]
Silvery Twines, Embracing: Eight Paintings by Cristina Querrer
My work explores the relationship between modern discourse and otherworldly spaces. With influences as diverse as Helen Frankenthaler and Frida Kahlo, new variations are crafted from both mundane and … [Read more...]
Six collages by Cherie Hunter Day
There’s something compelling about reframing the message from discarded scraps to make a new piece. The text, which initially was the primary focus, becomes secondary to texture, color, and line. For … [Read more...]
Seven Abstract Comics by Dev Murphy
Six paintings by Judith Skillman
Monster: visual poems by James Knight
Monster is a sequence of visual poems, in which I interrogate notions of the monstrous, mixing gothic tropes with cut-up text from Karl Marx, Bram Stoker, Georges Bataille, Jean Baudrillard, Slipknot, … [Read more...]
Twelve artworks by Darrell Urban Black
Born March 25, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York, I am Darrell Urban Black, an American visual artist presently living in Frankfurt, Germany. I work in a variety of formats that include pen and ink drawings, … [Read more...]
Grafik: six collages by Kon Markogiannis
Grafik is a series of collages which deal with themes such as mortality, fragility, impermanence, the human condition, the exploration of the body and psyche, the evolution of man, consciousness and … [Read more...]
Pre Word: ego is dead. Visual poetry by Nico Vassilakis
Some G*ddamn Horses!: paintings by Silas Plum
These paintings will be exhibited on October 11, 2019 at Youngblood Art Studio in The Plains, Virginia. All the details are here. … [Read more...]
Chocolate, Cigar and Orange Pekoe: visual poems by hiromi suzuki
I am collecting old postcards in tins. Tins are boxes emptied of souvenirs such as chocolate candies, cigars, and tea leaves. Old postcards are purchased at my secret store in Tokyo. By the way, I … [Read more...]
Five poems and four collages by Steve Dalachinsky
the blood hustle (more than a lb. of flesh) - “everything is somewhere else.” - for gregory corso @ perazzo funeral … [Read more...]
The Tarot of the Golden Scissors: collages by Emma Anna
I give guided tours to places that don't yet exist. … [Read more...]
River Stories: collages by Selena Dixon
The title of this artist's book is River Stories. It visually considers the events that might flow in and through a life. Some images cover two pages while others are single pages. Each page has a … [Read more...]
Twelve collages by Bill Wolak
The joy of collage is finding the endless connections between seemingly unrelated things. In some collages, the juxtaposition of ordinary with the delirious diversity of dream imagery forces the mind … [Read more...]
Nixon, Kennedy, and Brooks Brothers: Robert Rauschenberg’s Monogram, 1955-59
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 … [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 … [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 … [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 … [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 … [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 … [Read more...]
