I am interested in the slow fragmentation of Western values and culture, and how that might be represented visually. … [Read more...]
7 mixed-media works by Fierce Sonia
Mernet Larsen: Getting Measured, 1957-2017
Mernet Larsen: Getting Measured, 1957-2017. The Tampa Museum of Art, 120 W Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa. On view through 18 February 2018. Curated by Joanna Robotham, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Tampa Museum of Art. There is no dedicated … [Read more...]
Mashups: Canvases from 2013-2017 by Gregg Simpson
My work is on the border between abstraction and surrealism, formal design and automatism. I begin a work very spontaneously, often with the canvas lying on the ground and soaked with water to make the colors flow. Then I proceed to re-draw and mold … [Read more...]
The Drift of Desire: An Interview with Yongshin Cho
Yongshin Cho is a media artist who has been working in Paris and Seoul. After receiving his BA in painting from Hongik University, Seoul, in 1985, Mr. Cho went on to earn his BA and Master of Fine Arts degree from Université Paris-VIII in 1991 and 1997 … [Read more...]
5 paintings by Ishay Rossano
Art is the reflection of the artist in the Well of Wishes A good art grasps the spirit of the times (time and place) with its fingernails, and the spirit of the creative artist, and rises up into the realm of nothingness, leaving the viewer, who looks … [Read more...]
Traveling Home: watercolors by Mattina Blue
"Traveling Home" is a series of floating, totem-like forms, which emerged in the process of painting as if excavated from deep in my subconscious. They're moving with the waves, currents and tides, perpetually shifting, accommodating, adding and … [Read more...]
All These Sensations: 11 artworks by Lita Kenyon
Painting With abstract painting I'm interested in a process which operates within a personal narrative in concert with the unexpected. I paint, remove paint and repaint striving to bring forward forms, strokes and colors that singularly are incomplete … [Read more...]
toriot: text art by paul hawkins
"Sometimes people say: 'What the fuck do you think you're doing? That's not art.' I say: 'Fuck off, assholes!'" -- Martin Creed … [Read more...]
The Tempest and the Savages: Franz Marc, Hugo Ball, and a Decisive Moment in Dada-Expressionist Theater With a Special Appearance by August Macke
Introduction This article discusses Franz Marc’s 1914 essay “Das abstrakte Theater”1 (Fig. 01), and the events surrounding an “Expressionist” production of Shakespeare’s Der Sturm planned by Marc and Hugo Ball the same year. Marc’s position in this … [Read more...]
4 paintings by Moses Hawk
On the Road Stripped down bare. Art is an expression of the artist’s personality which could be a representation of their emotions, motivations, and intentions. Channeling the void, opening the whorl, cleaning out the id, funneling the spirit—it is an … [Read more...]
All-art issue: in memory of Eileen Enck
This special all-art issue is dedicated to the memory of my late mother-in-law, Eileen Enck. Born in January, she owned the Eileen Enck Gallery in Bellevue, Washington where she featured the work of many Pacific Northwest artists. While the style of … [Read more...]
Death to the Rebirth!
A couple of years ago, Leslie and I finally had our first chance to visit Rome. A friend of ours knew somebody down there who was nice enough to let us house-sit for nine days while she was out of town. It wasn’t a lot of time for a city so rich in art … [Read more...]
Burger Burglar: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
They were just hungry. They didn't want diamonds, naturally, they didn't hope glittering money in their pocket. They ran through the town and ordered chicken burgers at the counter of diner. Burger with plenty of mayonnaise. “I have always … [Read more...]
Three Literary-Themed Paintings by Warren J. Cox
Warren J. Cox paints mainly in an objective abstract vein. His pieces frequently imply the presence of system and strong synergy, and sometimes surrealist elements or pareidolia. As with these works, he loves to pay homage to literary figures and their … [Read more...]
The Owls Series by Francesca Badea
My art deals with escapism. Whether I am creating disconnected psychological worlds, disturbing monsters or dealing with alter egos, the main concern is evading reality. For example, "Owls" series makes reference to an older series that deals with the … [Read more...]
12 Paintings by Doug Gilbert
As I see it, an artwork presents an intermediate reality between the natural sense-perceived world and the non-sensual interior objects of consciousness. The work itself is, of course, a sense-perceived natural object, but the organization of form and … [Read more...]
6 found-word collages by J.I. Kleinberg
Part of a series that now numbers in excess of 1500, these pieces are assembled from unaltered magazine text in which each "chunk" is roughly the equivalent of a poetic line and without attributable text. … [Read more...]
The seasons: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
The seasons are similar to a Merry-Go-Round. On the beach during the winter, a chill breeze reminds the wagon a cry. It's an ecstatic scream of delight in the summer. … [Read more...]
Buckaroo, Desire, Doghouse, Cowgirl: Collages by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
My work abuts the rough edge between freedom and responsibility, nature and culture. It challenges confining conventions and repurposes them into new forms—forms born of urgency and tempered by a quest for beauty and meaning. … [Read more...]
Shelter me! A photo essay by Braxton Younts
Since June 2017, I have been living in homeless shelters in Manhattan. For better or worse, these are the images I have captured. … [Read more...]
12 new collages by Gary Cummiskey
Seven Cloud Paintings by William Clarkson
I have explored a number of painting styles and techniques over many years of making art works. One subject that I keep returning to is clouds. To me they are a vehicle of imagination. At the age of five they were squadrons of B-17s headed to Europe. At … [Read more...]
Visual poetry by József Bíró
8 new mixed-media pieces by Claudio Parentela
I like to discover myself little by little ... a little every day ... every instant ... in the time following the time … following the moon with my feet ... following the most distant planets with my black gloves. Every collage is a journey in and out … [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 … [Read more...]
Autogéométrie: The Art Brut of Francis Palanc
What is the sociological criterion to be one among those who are strangers to the established artistic circles yet produce spontaneously inventive works of art? Sometimes it may mean nothing, yet other times it may be a two-fold statement which may … [Read more...]
Land O’ Lakes: Highway 7 photographs
Land O' Lakes project is based on photographs taken in 2007 and 2009 of an abandoned motel on Highway 7 between Ottawa and Toronto, Ontario. Land O' Lakes motel was a popular spot for vacationers to stop in the 1960s but with the opening of the main … [Read more...]
Seven Portraits of Women
Cassandra Keenan's art possesses dadaist, surrealist, cubist and fluxus qualities. Spatial asymmetry, disconnection, linear imbalance, precariousness and abruptness also are recurring in her work. Many of her collages are feminist and are inspired by … [Read more...]
enveloppes: collages by Ria Bauwens
Artist's statement Having been a mail artist for the past 20 years has shaped me as a collage maker. Being a trained photographer gives me the opportunity to find beauty in small discarded patches of color, graphics or in images. I work with rescued … [Read more...]
Mary’s: Photographs
For a while now I’ve been collecting found footage, discarded images that once belonged to family archives, and repurpose them giving them a new meaning and a place in my own work. I received an archive of thousands of color slides, boxes filled with … [Read more...]
Constellations: Collages by Tim Stuemke
This series of collages is based on deconstructing the concept of what a constellation is. The mythical creature is no longer a series of points and lines, but a singular location. The boundary lines are now a mere jumble of angles without a destination. … [Read more...]
Son of Daedalus: poem with 2 paintings by Joost de Jonge
Son of Daedalus 1. I await your stirring of emotion in the needle bushes beside the tree my path like a burning daemon touches no ground to honor your reality is like darkness the night an abyss a deep ocean of swirling blue a hand … [Read more...]
Visual Poetry by Drew B. David
I'm interested in pushing the envelope, if that's possible in this day & age. I've been most influenced by the visionary genius, Dick Higgins, a major pioneer of the intermedia aesthetic. As such, I am into mixed media/collage. I believe the future of … [Read more...]
Painted Poetry and Painterly Poetics, an ekphrastic notion part 3: Palimpsest
Now Now is not past, but will be soon, With everything that is to come Under the stars and the white moon. An argued choice we make at noon By midnight sees us drained and dumb. Now is not past, but will be soon. If Armagnac absorbs the … [Read more...]
Urban Geologies
What kind of temporal-spatio-rhetoric does a polaroid afford? How does the slow afterlife of exposure agitate against the so-called instantaneousness of the film? Although digital photography challenges the indexical bond of the image, film also troubles … [Read more...]
Higher Education: 11 collages by Cory Peeke
I’m a collage maker for much the same reason I’m a curator – I love images. This affection has led me to collect remnant imagery; the largely ignored and seemingly inconsequential bits of ephemera that once had a purpose, still have a presence, but now … [Read more...]
borders
"borders" is one of a series of visual poems gathered together under a working title of [sic]. Additional pieces can be found online at Coldfront and at h&. … [Read more...]
Invisible stories
Nobody knows the stories in the future. Only the first letters of the words forming part of phrases are what we can put on the lines. Well, let's look forward to what kind of stories will start from these initials. … [Read more...]
Eleven Collages by Gary Cummiskey
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