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the right of the people peaceably to assemble: an image-text sequence by Chris Gavaler

Chris Gavaler

Pussy Riot (detail) - Chris Gaveler

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

Lori Langille

mustard jar (detail) - collage drawing 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...]

Six new collages by Kon Markogiannis

Kon Markogiannis

Grafik 4 (detail) collage 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 … [Read more...]

Six collages by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

Juicy Satellite (detail) - collage 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 … [Read more...]

Abstract Musings: Kelly Schaub’s mixed media collages

Kelly Schaub

what remains (detail) - Kelly Schaub mixed media collage

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 … [Read more...]

Nine collages by allison anne

allison anne

collage (detail) by allison anne

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Certain People by Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon

Say When (detail) - Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon’s mixed media pieces offer hints at humanity translated through persistent, abstract shapes. Living and working in Tacoma, Washington (near Seattle), collage and drawing is a search for … [Read more...]

Visual poetry by Sheila E. Murphy

Sheila E. Murphy

visual poetry (detail) by Sheila E. Murphy

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sophie anne edwards: Ice Poems

sophie anne edwards

what will you remember (detail) - visual poetry by sophie anne edwards

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 … [Read more...]

Four collages by Janina Aza Karpinska

Janina Aza Karpinska

Black and White (detail) - Janina Aza Karpinska collage

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 … [Read more...]

Silas Plum: Cardboard Primitives

Silas Plum

100 Percent Real Live Art (detail) - Silas Plum

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 … [Read more...]

Four collages by Kon Markogiannis

Kon Markogiannis

Konstruktion B (detail) - Kon Markogiannis collage

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, … [Read more...]

JUNCTION by Robert R. Thurman

Robert R. Thurman

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Rothko’s Passage Through Fear and Trembling During the Seagram Murals

George Saitoh

Mark Rothko, Untitled (detail)

“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 … [Read more...]

Beatnik: Collages by Rebeka Elizegi

Rebeka Elizegi

BEATNIK 4 (detail) - Rebeka Elizegi collage

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 … [Read more...]

Two collages and a poem by Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky

Billie 3(detail) - Steve Dalachinsky collage

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 … [Read more...]

Artworks by Doren Robbins

Doren Robbins

Untitled for Awake - 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 … [Read more...]

Bowls: Six paintings by Kate Brown

Kate Brown

Breath (detail) - painting by Kate Brown

These paintings are each 18 x 24, acrylic on canvas, 2018. … [Read more...]

Four collages by Jack Felice

Jack Felice

lawn portrait (detail) - collage 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 … [Read more...]

Beyond the Moment: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

Beyond the Moment 5 (detail) - 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 … [Read more...]

No Inherent Existence: mixed-media pieces by Hildy Maze

Hildy Maze

Hildy Maze (detail)

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 … [Read more...]

Visual poetry by Richard Biddle aka (bid)

Richard Biddle aka (bid)

bloxed (detail)

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Mixed-media pieces by Cynthia Yachtman

Cynthia Yachtman

Cynthia Yachtman - Woman with Heron (detail)

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 … [Read more...]

Rhed Fawell: Collage and Embroidery

Rhed Fawell

Porcelain Blue (detail) - Rhed Fawell collage

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 … [Read more...]

Utterance: Paintings by Samia Soubra

Samia Soubra

Detachment (detail) - painting by Samia Soubra

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Calcutta: Photographs by Buku Sarkar

Buku Sarkar

Calcutta: Photography 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 … [Read more...]

12 collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

Unexpected As the Twist of a Kiss (detail) - collage 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 … [Read more...]

my little girls dreams she is a spider: collages by Tim Stuemke

Tim Stuemke

my little girls dreams she is a spider 1 (detail) - collage 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

Leland Buck

Ryoji Ikeda’s Continuum - photo copyright Leland Buck

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” … [Read more...]

Screenpaintings by Shih Yun Yeo

Shih Yun Yeo

construction1 (detail) screenpainting 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 … [Read more...]

A Carving Process: Ripple by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck

Matt Diage

Ripple by Havel-Ruck Projects

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 … [Read more...]

The cholla garden at Joshua Tree: paintings by William Clarkson

William Clarkson

Electric Cholla - 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

hiromi suzuki

The place where someone's waiting for me (detail) : collage 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. … [Read more...]

Visual poetry from The City of Dreadful Night by Andre Bagoo

Andre Bagoo

The City of Dreadful Night 11 (detail) 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 … [Read more...]

Divine Decay by Kon Markogiannis

Kon Markogiannis

Divine Decay 14 (detail) 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 … [Read more...]

Cy Twombly’s Lepanto Green

Wm. Anthony Connolly

Lepanto by Cy Twombly (panel 2)

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, … [Read more...]

Visual poetry by Cam Scott: Spools/Burrs (for Clark Coolidge)

Cam Scott

Burrs 1 (detail) by Cam Scott

Influenced by copy art and zine making, my work uses the copier or scanner as a means of drawing, often adapting, or 'quoting,' a source of conceptual significance. In this, a nostalgic practice of … [Read more...]

3 visual poems by József Bíró

József Bíró

visual poem (detail) by József Bíró

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Joy of Water: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

Joy of Water 3 (detail) - hiromi suzuki

There is Tamagawa Aqueduct under the Daitabashi Station near the town where I live. The name of the place “Daitabashi” comes from "Daidarabotchi” as a giant in Japanese folklore. Daidarabotchi's huge … [Read more...]

Memory of Place: 8 paintings by Nathalie Tierce

Nathalie Tierce

No Way Out (detail) by Nathalie Tierce

I start with ripping apart issues of Architectural Digest and create dozens of collages very quickly that I make to capture a certain mood. From these compositions, I select the few that I’ll develop … [Read more...]

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