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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...]

Book Release – Collage by Women: 50 Essential Contemporary Artists, edited by Rebeka Elizegi

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Collage by Women: 50 Essential Contemporary Artists, edited by Rebeka Elizegi

Now available for pre-order, Collage by Women presents fifty international women artists working in the field of collage today through a rigorous selection of their works. Curated by the Spanish … [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...]

Rebeka Elizegi’s Beatnik collages at the Hybrid Art Fair, March 1-3, Madrid

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Rebeka Elizegi presents Beatnik at the Hybrid Art Fair by the Arteuparte Gallery Hybrid Art Fair 1-3 March 2019 Hotel Petit Palace Santa Bárbara / Plaza Santa Bárbara, 10, Madrid, Spain The … [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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

10 Digital Collages by David Hickman

David Hickman

- David Hickman collage

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

Fierce Sonia

Fierce Sonia

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All These Sensations: 11 artworks by Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon

Fighting Chance (detail) - 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 … [Read more...]

6 found-word collages by J.I. Kleinberg

J. I. Kleinberg

J.I. Kleinberg - word collages

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 … [Read more...]

Buckaroo, Desire, Doghouse, Cowgirl: Collages by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Doghouse (detail) 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 … [Read more...]

12 new collages by Gary Cummiskey

Gary Cummiskey

Entry to the zone - Gary Cummiskey collage

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8 new mixed-media pieces by Claudio Parentela

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 … [Read more...]

12 Collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

Dawn Reaching into Darkness - Bill Wolak collage (detail)

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...]

Seven Portraits of Women

Cassandra Keenan

Ms. (detail) - Cassandra Keenan

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. … [Read more...]

enveloppes: collages by Ria Bauwens

Ria Bauwens

ria bauwens - enveloppes

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 … [Read more...]

Constellations: Collages by Tim Stuemke

Tim Stuemke

constellations collage (detail) 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 … [Read more...]

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