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The Mists of Youth: Oil Paintings

Rodica Miller

Caving with Malcom (detail) - Rodica Miller

Artist's statement: The series of works presented here portrays the state of alienation as a pervasive human condition, in particular, the one that engulfs parents and children … [Read more...]

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...]

Is Southern Art a Thing?: Thoughts from a Technically Southern Arts Writer

Sara Estes

When I woke up this morning in Nashville, I checked, as I routinely do, The Guardian, The New Yorker, and The Times. When I went to the coffee shop next to my apartment, I encountered more people from … [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...]

The Yellow Line

Fabio Sassi

The Yellow Line (detail) - Fabio Sassi

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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...]

Paintings by Abstract Painter Joost de Jonge

Joost de Jonge

Artist's statement: I proclaim the freedom of abstract art to be self-referential. To be a joyous play of form and color, rhythm is at the heart of my compositions, the pulse which is hidden there, … [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...]

San Francisco in the 21st Century: 75 color photographs and poem by Tisa Walden

Empty Mirror

Red Wheelbarrow (detail) -- Tisa Walden

San Francisco in the 21st Century, Tisa Walden's volume of photographs documents and explores the nuances of the present-day City by the Bay. Designed by John Gossage and published by Washington DC's … [Read more...]

Mixed Media Paintings by Tina Garvin

Tina Garvin

Bandoleros (detail) by Tina Garvin

Artist's statement: This collection of mixed media paintings is inspired by the tension between the nature that surrounds us and our own inherent natures.These paintings are a series of … [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...]

On Painting On

Nanette Jordan

on painting on

“Why are the paintings going away?” Mommy explains: ”Your dad is having a very important one-man show at a big fancy gallery across from The San Francisco Opera House. We're going to get all … [Read more...]

The Rift in Time: Paintings by Rodica Miller

Rodica Miller

The Rift in Tiime (detail) - Rodica Miller

Introductory note: “The Rift In Time” series of works is a journey that starts from our inner world and continues onward to the stars. With delicate care, I try to render the ghostly energy waves … [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...]

Vispo by Chris Turnbull

Chris Turnbull

Chris Turnbull - maybe (detail)

"maybe" was first published by Chaudiere Books in April, 2015. … [Read more...]

In the Jungle: Abstract Paintings of Life in the Wild

Alec Clayton

Aesop (detail) - Alec Clayton

Artist's Statement: These are abstract paintings through which I have attempted to capture the feel, but not necessarily the look, of movement of animals and people in nature, combining the gestures … [Read more...]

Burning Factories: Art by Sander Steins

Sander Steins

Burning Factory 1 - Sander Steins

It was the summer of 1980 when I was seven years old that I sat in the back seat of my father’s blue Opel Kadett coupé and saw the first smoking chimneys of the German Ruhrgebiet. Those were the … [Read more...]

‘weather reports’: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

Artist's statement: Weather reports rarely come true. Sometimes people changes their mind like sudden rain. They are falling and laughing like the sun-shower of letters. … [Read more...]

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