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...]
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 … [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 … [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...]
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...]
10 Digital Collages by David Hickman
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
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...]
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...]
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...]
12 new collages by Gary Cummiskey
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Eleven Collages by Gary Cummiskey
Anything Can Happen: Bruno Sourdin in conversation with Gary Cummiskey
Bruno Sourdin is a French poet and collagist. He was born in 1950 in the Mont-Saint-Michel area. After studying journalism in Paris, he travelled in Morocco, Egypt, and India. He now lives in Normandy. His first collection of poems, Les Haillons … [Read more...]
Todd Swindell and Steve Dalachinsky: A Collage Mail Art Correspondence
Poets Steve Dalachinsky (NY) and Todd Swindell (CA) have an ongoing postcard/collage correspondence spanning 3,000 miles and several years. Todd says: "Mail Art's rewards come not only from the time invested in creating the collage, but also its … [Read more...]
The Way Home II – Assemblages by Michael Wilson
By isolating and simplifying objects and their environments, an elemental nature can be revealed that exists in all things, real and imagined. This is the thread connect us all. Through the particular, the universe can be obtained. The power of art is the … [Read more...]
13 Collages by Rhed Fawell
I think I’m a collagist simply because I love images. I'm a magpie for ephemera, searching out and collecting interesting visual material. The poetic quality of vintage material has a particular draw for me. There’s often a shrouded sense of sadness … [Read more...]
The Enfolded: Collage Paintings by Ginnie Gardiner
My working method since the mid-1990s has been to create equivalent color palettes from my collage and montage studies for translation into the medium of oil paint. In all of my paintings, I have sought color mastery and color is the subject of my work. … [Read more...]
The Palette Series: Collages by Mariia Magoly
For me, whether your work is a craft or an art, first of all it has to be sincere and important for you. That’s a secret of happiness. At least a big part of it. My works shouldn’t make the world better. I just need them to exist. And hope that someone … [Read more...]
Five collages by Adrian Jugaru
The 'taped together' series uses pieces of tape to merge images in an organic way. In this perception, tape is the flesh and blood vessels that put together a golem-like corpus. … [Read more...]
Undressing the Darkness: 12 Collages by Bill Wolak
Collage undresses the darkness with a mirror’s secret undertow. It’s a dance done on burning kites while dreaming at the speed of light. Expectant as nakedness, collage is a door that surfaces in the shipwreck of your sleep. It’s a caress with the … [Read more...]
Private Eyes: Collages
Artist's statement: I'm always creating the collages like "Automatic writing". Putting pics of roses, creeks and chimneys on watercolour papers. Painting Liquitex gels and linseed oil on these. When I fall asleep, they spend the night to wait for … [Read more...]
Integrant: Collages by Lita Poliakova
Artist's statement: Integrant (handmade collage, 2016) These are full-bodied, organic-approved combos that can stand alone as an indulgence, profound spirit, or may serve as an addition to capabilities of loved ones. All choices are available … [Read more...]
Meat: 5 collages by Jorge Chamorro
Meat: a series of handmade collages … [Read more...]
from the Coach House Series: text collages by Paul Hawkins
taken from the Coach House Series … [Read more...]
DADA Centennial: Day of the Dead at the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction Archives
Show runs through January 2017 (by appointment) Reception Friday Nov. 4, 2016 from 4-7 PM DADA Centennial: Day of the Dead at the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction Archives Over 160 works by artists from all over the world … [Read more...]
Eleven collages by Rebeka Elizegi
Artist's statement: I have dedicated many years to working with this technique. After a period of experimentation with large format digital collage, I am currently working manually: I have returned to scissors, glue, and the exploration of various … [Read more...]
Three collages by Jonathon Prestidge
assemblage: 3 collages by hiromi suzuki
Capturing the ephemeral moments. Assembling the memories into an album. As time goes by, the remains will become the layer of soil. Preferably returning to one little tree someday. … [Read more...]
9 Collages by Laura J. Stein
Artist Statement: I make collages out of paper. I use auction catalogs, with displays of jewels, silver, and gold antique pieces or reproductions of paintings and drawings that I repurpose for my own use. Usually, I have some preconceived ideas about the … [Read more...]
TrashWorks: Collages from beachtrash and vintage magazines
Artist's Statement: I make collages of beachtrash and vintage magazines. It started during a peaceful moment at a trashy Spanish beach where I put, without thought, some pieces of plastic together. This co-incidental finding led to my project TrashWorks. … [Read more...]
Insignia: Collages by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Artist's statement: Mail Art first influenced my artistic direction. In the 80s I began creating collages using found images, rubber stamps and stickers. I also practiced graffiti, using markers, stencils and spraypaint. I’ve retained some of those … [Read more...]
12 Collages by Bill Wolak
Artist's statement: Collage undresses the darkness with a mirror’s secret undertow. It’s a dance done on burning kites while dreaming at the speed of light. Expectant as nakedness, collage is a door that surfaces in the shipwreck of your sleep. It’s a … [Read more...]
Collages by Bill Wolak
Artist’s Statement: Collage undresses the darkness with a mirror’s secret undertow. It’s a dance done on burning kites while dreaming at the speed of light. Expectant as nakedness, collage is a door that surfaces in the shipwreck of your sleep. It’s a … [Read more...]
Portrait Collages by Nanette Jordan
Nanette Jordan is a multi-media "Renaissance Woman" from a family of San Francisco artists. The Smithsonian's Renwick Museum, as well as many other fine galleries, have featured Nanette's work. She is most known for her unique handcrafted sterling … [Read more...]
