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Insignia: Collages by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Raoul (detail) - 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, … [Read more...]

12 Collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

All the Light That Never Returns (detail) - 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 … [Read more...]

Collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

Patient Clouds - 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 … [Read more...]

Portrait Collages by Nanette Jordan

Nanette Jordan

Nanette Jordan collage art

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 … [Read more...]

Collages by Kareem Rizk

Kareem Rizk

Western (detail) - Kareem Rizk

Artist's statement A mesh of vintage consumerism, post-war sophistication and mid-century ephemera, Rizk’s work explores nostalgia and surveys the essential and singular visual niche of collage in … [Read more...]

Collages by Ben Stainton

Ben Stainton

city by the sea - Ben Stainton

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Four Landscapes (Through a Window) by Magie Dominic

Magie Dominic

Landscape 1 - Magie Dominic

Artist's statement: These four collages can be viewed separately. They can also be shown as one 4-part piece as seen through a four pane glass window, with the two blue and white pieces on the top - … [Read more...]

A Moment Just About to Happen: Collages by Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon

Ask again when you're alone - Lita Kenyon

Artist's statement: I am drawn to subjects about socially transmitted beliefs, widely repeated cultural themes and mores. My work focuses on the narratives evolving naturally from the subconscious as … [Read more...]

A dozen collages by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

ailes de la chanson #2 (detail) - hiromi suzuki

Artist's statement: I think the collages are poetry without words. Sometimes I contribute my collages with my poems to poetry magazines, or publish on my site. My collages are made by … [Read more...]

A Gallery of Collages by Nicholas Lockyer

Nicholas Lockyer

deathpunch - Nicholas Lockyer

Artist's statement:Visual artist Nicholas Lockyer’s collage work explores the relationship between the saturation point of digitalization in today’s society, Trash Cinema and lowbrow ephemera culture … [Read more...]

Collages by Oscar Varona

Oscar Varona

You were made for me(detail) - Oscar Varona

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Present: Collages by Ivica Capan

Ivica Capan

Allegory (detail) - Ivica Capan

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The Florilegia Project

Tristan Stamm

Florilegia 3 (detail) by Tristan Stamm

Artist's Statement: Commissioned books of botanical art, meant to immortalize the gardens of collectors, usually illustrating miscellanies of species primarily enjoyed for their beauty and rarity, not … [Read more...]

Ten paintings by Vakseen

Vakseen

Vakseen - Eyes Wide (detail)

Artist's statement: I’ve always felt they were God’s greatest creation, so my work evolves around women, their natural allure and the insecurities or confidence created by Pop culture. Simply stated, … [Read more...]

9 collages by Magda Dudziak

Magda Dudziak

Artist's Statement: My recent collage work reflects my interest in fragmentation (fragments of memory) and displacement. I’m interested to deconstruct and interpret already existing images to create … [Read more...]

Tales from the future: collages by Joanna Marcjanna

Joanna Marcjanna

The Demiurge (detail) by Joanna Marcjanna

Artist's Statement: Collage is just the best thing ever, because, guess what - it is so easy! Too lazy and impatient for actual drawing or painting, I got interested in collage as a perfect way to … [Read more...]

Six collages by Adrian Jugaru

Adrian Jugaru

Hush Now Little Baby (detail) - Adrian Jugaru

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A One-Sided Knife Fight: Collages by Hoop & Stick

Hoop & Stick

Parts of Speech (detail) by Hoop & Stick

Artist's statement: "Everything is Collage." You - Your Mom - This Statement Your Ideas - Your Entire Worldview - Society The Universe Itself. Just as quarks come together to form atoms … [Read more...]

Collages by Carlyle Baker

Carlyle Baker

Kathmandu (detail) by Carlyle Baker

Artist's Statement: we are here to go we had to do what we did or we couldn't do it. … [Read more...]

Seven Artworks by Gloria Avner

Gloria Avner

Collage by Gloria Avner

For years Gloria Avner has explored and taught ancient batik painting techniques using ink, wax, and watercolor on delicate Ginwashi ricepaper. Her collages enter a different realm, often focusing on … [Read more...]

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