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Higher Education: 11 collages by Cory Peeke

Cory Peeke

Cory Peeke - Counting Sheep (detail)

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 … [Read more...]

Eleven Collages by Gary Cummiskey

Gary Cummiskey

Stepping out (detail) - collage by Gary Cummiskey

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Anything Can Happen: Bruno Sourdin in conversation with Gary Cummiskey

Gary Cummiskey

Bruno Sourdin interview 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 … [Read more...]

Todd Swindell and Steve Dalachinsky: A Collage Mail Art Correspondence

Todd Swindell and Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky mail art collage (detail)

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 … [Read more...]

The Way Home II – Assemblages by Michael Wilson

Michael Wilson

Tony Rickaby - assemblage

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 … [Read more...]

13 Collages by Rhed Fawell

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 … [Read more...]

The Enfolded: Collage Paintings by Ginnie Gardiner

Ginnie Gardiner

Giinnie Gardiner - Aerial (detail)

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 … [Read more...]

The Palette Series: Collages by Mariia Magoly

Mariia Magoly

The Palette Series #3 (detail), 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 … [Read more...]

Five collages by Adrian Jugaru

Adrian Jugaru

Red Flowers (detail) 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

Bill Wolak

Intimate Aftermath - Bill Wolak collage

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 … [Read more...]

Private Eyes: Collages

hiromi suzuki

Private Eyes 2 (detail) hiromi suzuki

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. … [Read more...]

Integrant: Collages by Lita Poliakova

Lita Poliakova

Integrant 11 collage 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 … [Read more...]

Meat: 5 collages by Jorge Chamorro

Jorge Chamorro

Meat 2 (detail) - Jorge Chamorro

Meat: a series of handmade collages … [Read more...]

from the Coach House Series: text collages by Paul Hawkins

Paul Hawkins

Paul Hawkins -- Coach House 08 (detail)

taken from the Coach House Series … [Read more...]

DADA Centennial: Day of the Dead at the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction Archives

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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 … [Read more...]

Eleven collages by Rebeka Elizegi

Rebeka Elizegi

Somiers(detail) - collage 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 … [Read more...]

Three collages by Jonathon Prestidge

Jonathon Prestidge

Cola Wars (detail) - Jonathon Prestidge

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assemblage: 3 collages by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

assemblage collage 1 (detail) - 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

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 … [Read more...]

TrashWorks: Collages from beachtrash and vintage magazines

Elza Zijlstra

Room of a Writer - Elza Zijlstra

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. … [Read more...]

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