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Collages by Ben Stainton

Ben Stainton

city by the sea - Ben Stainton

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Four Landscapes (Through a Window) by Magie Dominic

Magie Dominic

Landscape 1 - Magie Dominic

Artist's statement: These four collages can be viewed separately. They can also be shown as one 4-part piece as seen through a four pane glass window, with the two blue and white pieces on the top - … [Read more...]

A Moment Just About to Happen: Collages by Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon

Ask again when you're alone - Lita Kenyon

Artist's statement: I am drawn to subjects about socially transmitted beliefs, widely repeated cultural themes and mores. My work focuses on the narratives evolving naturally from the subconscious as … [Read more...]

Void: Photography of Displacement

Rehan Miskci

Bride - Rehan Miskci

Artist's statement: As a member of the Armenian minority in Turkey, the notions of displacement and invisibility become key elements in my work. In my thesis project “Void”, I am exploring my … [Read more...]

A dozen collages by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

ailes de la chanson #2 (detail) - hiromi suzuki

Artist's statement: I think the collages are poetry without words. Sometimes I contribute my collages with my poems to poetry magazines, or publish on my site. My collages are made by … [Read more...]

New Art by Carlyle Baker

Carlyle Baker

atmosphere 01 (detail) - Carlyle Baker

Artist's statment: these are most innocent perceptions, returned from another location of space/time, somewhere lost in recognition of way-out dreaming, a close examination of one day and the … [Read more...]

A Gallery of Collages by Nicholas Lockyer

Nicholas Lockyer

deathpunch - Nicholas Lockyer

Artist's statement:Visual artist Nicholas Lockyer’s collage work explores the relationship between the saturation point of digitalization in today’s society, Trash Cinema and lowbrow ephemera culture … [Read more...]

Eight paintings by Tom Melsen

Tom Melsen

Self Portrait )detail) - Tom Melsen

Artist's statement: What is important to me, is what I like to call "the art of destroying." I destroy a lot of my works. Most paintings I make feel like crap to me and only a few of the many … [Read more...]

Collages by Oscar Varona

Oscar Varona

You were made for me(detail) - Oscar Varona

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Present: Collages by Ivica Capan

Ivica Capan

Allegory (detail) - Ivica Capan

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The South as a Home as an Animal

Marshall Blevins

Marshall Blevins

Artist's statement: Southern artist and photographer, making it up as I go along. Struggled through art school but survived, not sure which direction to go in, but certain and rooted in bayou country. … [Read more...]

Too Dee: Drawings by Nathan Pietrykowski

Nathan Pietrykowski

Folly and Fortune (detail) - Nathan Pietrykowski

Drawing is my magical power. It allows me to reexamine the past, foretell the future or travel to places unseen. In my current body of work, I have invented an imaginary universe to explore creation. … [Read more...]

Dietrich’s Mirror: Portraits In The Mirrors Of Marlene Dietrich

Kalliope Amorphous

Dietrich's Mirror 7 (detail) - Kalliope Amorphous

Artist's statement: Dietrich’s Mirror is a series of self-portraits taken in mirrors belonging to the late Marlene Dietrich. The first images in this series were taken in a mirror which shattered in … [Read more...]

Dream Sequences

Jonathan K. Rice

Dream Sequence 2 (detail) - Jonathan K. Rice

Artist's statement: Image, color, composition, and texture are all informed by what I read, what I listen to, and that which surrounds me. I work with acrylics and mixed media, painting, and creating … [Read more...]

The Florilegia Project

Tristan Stamm

Florilegia 3 (detail) by Tristan Stamm

Artist's Statement: Commissioned books of botanical art, meant to immortalize the gardens of collectors, usually illustrating miscellanies of species primarily enjoyed for their beauty and rarity, not … [Read more...]

Seven paintings by Margarita Gokun

Margarita Gokun

Parenting (detail) - Margarita Gokun

Artist's Statement: I think of my pieces as snippets of thoughts and feelings we experience but often fail to recognize. Our connection to the bigger, our ability to dip into the cosmos’s pool of … [Read more...]

Nature is Alphabet: Vispo

Nico Vassilakis

Nature is Alphabet 8 (detail) - Nico Vasilikas

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Out of Tracks

Fabio Sassi

Fabio Sassi - Out of Tracks 4 (detail)

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Ten paintings by Vakseen

Vakseen

Vakseen - Eyes Wide (detail)

Artist's statement: I’ve always felt they were God’s greatest creation, so my work evolves around women, their natural allure and the insecurities or confidence created by Pop culture. Simply stated, … [Read more...]

Workings: Paintings by Jill Emery

Jill Emery

donkeys find an opening (detail) - Jill Emery

Artist's statement: original art that has a story whether told or interpreted my process in painting has been to think about words in a poetic/symbolic/spiritual sense its a two part process, … [Read more...]

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