OM.2008.006,007,008 Christian Heinrich - Germany - Mixed Media collages
http://www.christian-heinrich.com
http://www.christian-heinrich.com
Sunday, July 29, 2012
334 - Jane Asari - USA
Jane Asari - View From Across the River - 2006 - Mixed Media Collage
origin: independent donation by the artist
Saturday, July 28, 2012
331 - Sukarma Thareja - India
OM.2012.170 - Sukarma Thareja - India - Indian Tiger - collage on a vinyl flag
STATEMENT
Sukarma Thareja is teaching physical chemistry in Ch. Ch. Post Graduate College in India for the last twenty years. She has a deep interest in collage art making. She has guided many students in
this creative art as she is in charge of collage, painting and rangoli activities of college.This collage
is a gift by the artist to the museum for the humble cause being done by the organizer. The artist is
grateful to the organizers for giving her the opportunity to explore her talent at this esteem platform.
She has made many collages which can be used for teaching basic concepts in basic physical
chemistry to popularize science among students. According to her, collage making has a healing effect
on students and it makes the atmosphere of class very congenial and full of energy. This collage is
her humble effort in which it is shown that in India lot of efforts are being made to save the tigers, but
what is thought process which is going in the heart of the tiger is shown in terms of all man made activities;
pictures surrounding Tiger. Many eyes made at the boundary of collage shows that each Indian eye
wants to see that the tiger is saved------but the question is; will all effort made be successful? If not,what
is to be done. The background colour of the collage is the same as that of the national flag that shows the high spirit of each Indian for this cause ----may these efforts be sustained for ever.
this creative art as she is in charge of collage, painting and rangoli activities of college.This collage
is a gift by the artist to the museum for the humble cause being done by the organizer. The artist is
grateful to the organizers for giving her the opportunity to explore her talent at this esteem platform.
She has made many collages which can be used for teaching basic concepts in basic physical
chemistry to popularize science among students. According to her, collage making has a healing effect
on students and it makes the atmosphere of class very congenial and full of energy. This collage is
her humble effort in which it is shown that in India lot of efforts are being made to save the tigers, but
what is thought process which is going in the heart of the tiger is shown in terms of all man made activities;
pictures surrounding Tiger. Many eyes made at the boundary of collage shows that each Indian eye
wants to see that the tiger is saved------but the question is; will all effort made be successful? If not,what
is to be done. The background colour of the collage is the same as that of the national flag that shows the high spirit of each Indian for this cause ----may these efforts be sustained for ever.
Friday, July 27, 2012
329-330 - Paulo Barros - Portugal
OM.2012.168 - Paulo Barros - Portugal - 3-D paper construction - 6.5 x 6.5 inches
OM.2012.168 - Paulo Barros - Portugal - 3-D paper construction - 6.5 x 6.5 inches
328 - Claudia Kippes Aulita - Argentina
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| om.2011.149 - Claudia Kippes Aulita - Argentina - Collage made by sewing several colored and painted papers together - 10x11.25 inches - 2011 |
325-327 - Ursula Hudson - USA
OM.2012.165 - Ursula Hudson - USA - collage in paper - 6.25 x 4.25
OM.2012.166 - Ursula Hudson - USA - collage in paper - 6.25 x 4.25
OM.2012.165 - Ursula Hudson - USA - collage in paper - 6.25 x 4.25
323-324 - Lily Hope - USA
OM.2012.163 - Lily Hope - USA - collage - 5 x 4.5 inches
OM.2012.164 - Lily Hope - USA - collage - 6 x 4.5 inches
321 - David Burton-Richardson - United Kingdom
321 - om.2011.221 David Burton-Richardson - United Kingdom - collage - 3.5 x 3.25 inches
Statement
My work is about life and death and the questions that this topic asks. The layering of collage elements gives the work a sort of 3-D quality - like life itself, which has many layers, many facets.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
318-320 - Dilar Pereira - Portugal
OM.2011.129 Dilar Periera - Portugal - Desejo - collage on canvas - 16x16 inches - 2009
OM.2011.130 Dilar Periera - Portugal - Package - collage on canvas - 16x16 inches - 2006
OM.2011.131 Dilar Periera - Portugal - Barely Everything in August - collage on canvas - 16x16 inches - 2006
In my collage work inspiration and materials come from found-papers that surround our
daily lives and usually end up having an ephemeral existence from the most obvious to
the most unusual and unsuspected such as posters, newspapers, packages, tickets,
brochures, magazines, postcards, advertising, among many others.
My process of plastic improvisation based creation requires a demand for selfdiscipline
that led to the settlement of Daily Collage Project in 2006. This project aims
to create a collage every day which turns out to be a personal dairy which also acts itself
as a commentary on everyday life.
The relationship word/image, the incorporation of typographic and commercial
elements, the scale and juxtaposition of different textures and shapes, reflects many
aspects of the historical background of this collage technique, such as the early 20th
century artists (Picasso, Braque, Schwitters and Hannah Hoch, by example), or latest
American artists like Joseph Cornell and Robert Motherweel, among others.
TECHNICAL PROCESS AND THE OPERATIVE ACT
The discovery and use of materials related to everyday life, from recycling or the daily
practice of gleaning materials is reflected in the handling of a dual language discourse.
On one hand, it reveals a conceptual sense on improvisational relations in colors,
images, textures, forms, meanings, pictograms; on the other, it focus on mono and
polysemy of language associations among titles, images and signs. Color is the one
characteristic inherent to used materials.
The decision to embrace this technical process is related to the fact that collage
is a recurring feature in my artwork. Sometimes I use transfer techniques that allow the
juxtaposition of images, or vintage images that give the work a new element of
something remote, appealing to our collective memory, although
collages emerge as practices of plastic improvisation whose ephemeral condition
acquire new meanings as a result of the clashes, tensions, dialogues, balances from their
spontaneous combination.
Each work is a dynamic impulse of the act of tearing, select and re-render, and a
material combination of different pieces ending in experimentation built from
discovery. There is an idea of gaming, connected to the act of adjusting, juxtaposing,
uniting, as a daily playful operation breaking the monotony of everyday life.
Improvisation is the result of instant choices – choice made "by itself", cleared
from what is around and of what’s happening. One practice of a combined exercise,
which tears, destroys and rebuilds a work in progress taking place from the act of
dealing with "what is around," like an instant of an event.
In addition to operative act it is the intellectual doing and the visibility that matters.
There is no narrative sense in each collage, but maybe one can be found in Daily
Collage Project. It does not intend to tell a story, but there is a loose speech on daily life
which inhabits time.
Dilar Pereira
Lisboa, September 18th, 2011
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
317 - Marie Leibenguth Stockhill - USA
OM.2012.113 Marie Leibenguth Stockhill - Untitled - 14x11 inches - collage with prepared papers on paper
316 - Tanja Nikolajevic - Serbia
om.2012.161 - Tanja Nikolajevic - Serbia - Untitled - 2011 - collage and acrylic on panel
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
315 - Ginny Graves - USA
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| OM.2012.009 |
web site: www.cubekc.org
Art Work
Artist Name: Ginny Graves/Tucson, AZ
Name of Work: Road Kill (A Commentary on Life in the Twos)
Medium: mixed (newspaper headlines, rubber stamp, handmade paper, tissue paper transfer)
Appropriations: Kate Breakey
Size 6.5x4
Year: 2012
Road Kill (A Commentary on Life in the Twos)
Collage has the immediate result of allowing the artist to experiment freely, to appreciate the joy of unlimited experimentation, and to experience the surprise of unanticipated outcomes. Following this is the possibility for application of the artist’s own inventions, skills and discipline, at any level. Making collage—a great application for artistic creation...and a lesson for living Life.
Saturday, July 21, 2012
313, 314 - Kareem Rizk - Australia
OM.2012.159-160 - Kareem Rizk - Australia
http://kareemrizk.com
Statement on Collage
For me, collage is very much about collecting. The ritual of collecting is sometimes the most enjoyable part of
the process. I think every collage artist is a collector - whether they collect tactile materials or whether they
collect ideas and references in their mind. I feel that the act of collecting becomes a very necessary part of the process.
I collect many kinds of paper, images, ephemera, magazines, books, textures, typography, patterns and all
forms of design elements including lines, dots, shapes and ornamental/decorative graphics. Whenever I find an old press publication, an old image or an old discarded piece of coloured paper I am almost always thinking about how it could be used in a different context in my art. It’s an opportunity to make something new and intriguing which didn’t exist before and often from scraps and salvaged materials.
The act of piecing together a collage for me has a lot to do with intuition and spontaneity, but it can also be
very meditative. For many collagists who do not sketch or design a composition, the final result is entirely
dependent on what moves are made during the construction of the artwork. I feel that allowing your intuition
and allowing for a certain level of spontaneity to take its course is something that comes very naturally when it comes to working with a medium that is very changeable.
I’ve been making collage and mixed media art for nearly 7 years. When I first began making art it was simply a creative outlet and a relief from my job in corporate design. I never imagined that one day I would be pursuing a career in a field that I was never officially trained to do. But for me it made perfectly good sense. I don’t believe that a person needs to be trained to be a good collage artist. In fact, there are many aspects of good collage making that I believe cannot be taught – but only experienced or felt. I believe it’s something that comes from within.
312 - Launa Romoff - USA
OM.2012.158 - Launa Romoff - California, USA
[312] OM.2012.158 - Launa Romoff - collage - 7x10 inches
I find my material everywhere, because, by working in this medium, I believe you learn to “see” the beauty of the discarded and turn it into “art”.
I present my reality in two different manifestations. They are either internal, elusive, suggestive or external, dynamic and engaging. They reflect my duality, which encompasses both.
I present my reality in two different manifestations. They are either internal, elusive, suggestive or external, dynamic and engaging. They reflect my duality, which encompasses both.
311 - Dennis Parlante - USA
OM.2012.157 - Dennis Parlante - California, USA
[311] OM.2012.157 - Dennis Parlante - 7 Avril 1960 - collage on paper - 10.5 x 8.75 inches
310 - Jen Tsui - USA
OM.2012.156 - Jen Tsui - USA
[310] OM.2012.156 - Jen Tsui - USA - collage - 2012 - 20x16 inches
309 - Mitsuko Brooks - USA
OM.2012.155 - Mitsuko Brooks - New York, USA
[309] OM.2012.155 - Mitsuko Brooks
Title: this song is dedicated to all the late bloomers and old souls
Dimensions: 6 1/3" x 9 3/4
Date: 2012
Materials: Discarded book cover, paper, gouache, typewriter
Dimensions: 6 1/3" x 9 3/4
Date: 2012
Materials: Discarded book cover, paper, gouache, typewriter
My collages express my thoughts on the ambiguity of my ethnicity and female body, and my opinions on the looming, sexual status of the female other.
In these works I am coming to terms with the white female sexuality and/or hierarchy [with the contradiction of my own white and non-white lineage as a backdrop], which is depicted in mainstream western media.
In these works I am coming to terms with the white female sexuality and/or hierarchy [with the contradiction of my own white and non-white lineage as a backdrop], which is depicted in mainstream western media.
308 - Melanie Gaskins - USA
OM.2012.154 - Melanie Gaskins - USA
[308] OM.2012.154 - Melanie Gaskins - Awaken - 2012 - Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Oil, and Watercolor collage on 9 canvases
Collage offers artists a means to express themselves in multiple mediums. Some
artist’s use their artwork to make statements or send a message to those who
view their work.
Through collage I have been able to express my vision of a novel I hold dear to my
heart “Awaken – The Healing of Virtue”.
This is no ordinary book. It has elements of Action and Adventure, Science
Fiction, Fantasy, and Romance. The concept stems from my desire to empower
women, try to change the perception of how women are perceived and valued,
bring attention to a struggling city in rural Pennsylvania and its schools, hopefully
increase tourism, and allow me to give back to my community.
Short Forward
An unknown world has revealed itself to Cayenne Ashley, a beautiful twenty-
three year old graduate student. She is about to emerge into it. But, before she
opens her eyes to see its true wonder, she thinks to herself; “Who would believe
what I am about to witness?” More importantly, after seeing and understanding
this new world; “Who would follow me on this journey?”
307 - Theophilus Brown - USA
OM.2012.153 - Theophilus Brown - California, USA
[307] OM.2012.153 - Theophilus Brown - gift of Matt Gonzalez - collage and acrylic on paper
A descendant of early-American intellectuals, Brown was born in Moline, Illinois. His great-grandfather was friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Brown's father was an inventor and chief designer, at the John Deere Company in Moline, Illinois.[1][2] While attending Yale University in the late-1930s, Brown met composer Paul Hindemith and poet May Sarton, with whom he would share lifetime friendships. After graduating in 1941, Brown was drafted in World War II. Following his discharge, he began to study painting, moving between New York City and Paris, meeting an impressive range of artists that included Pablo Picasso, Braque, Giacometti, Balthus, and de Kooning, among others. Brown, who studied piano at Yale, was also close to a number of composers, including John Cage, Poulenc, Samuel Barber, and Igor Stravinsky.
In 1952 Brown enrolled in the graduate studio program at the University of California, Berkeley, joining a group of artists—including Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Elmer Bischoff, James Weeks, and Nathan Oliveira — that would later be known as the Bay Area Figurative Movement. While attending Berkeley, Brown also met and fell in love with his long-time partner and fellow-painter, Paul Wonner.
In the early 1960s, Brown and Wonner moved to Santa Monica, where they developed a close friendship with fellow gay couple, novelist Christopher Isherwood, and portrait artist Don Bachardy. Over the years, Brown and Wonner also fostered friendships with playwright William Inge, composer and conductor Andre Previn, actress Eva Marie Saint and her husband, director Jeffery Hayden, and New Zealand novelist Janet Frame.
In his later years, Brown still managed to paint daily. Theophilus Brown resided in San Francisco, California at the time of his death.
His papers are held at the Archives of American Art.
Four months before his death, Brown gave an interview in which he fact-checked his Wikipedia entry. He found the entry accurate, on the whole, but termed his classification as an abstract expressionist "horseshit." He died in San Francisco, aged 92.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
306 - Larry Strong - USA
OM.2012.150 - Larry Strong - California, USA
[306] OM.2012.150 - Larry Strong - Specification - collage on paper
304, 305 - Matt Gonzalez - USA
OM.2012.151-152 - Matt Gonzalez - California, USA
[304] OM.2012.151 - Matt Gonzalez - 08.February.2012 - collage on paper
[305] OM.2012.152 - Matt Gonzalez - 08.January.2012 - collage on paper
302, 303 - Karen Imperial - USA
OM.2012.148-149 - Karen Imperial - California, USA
[302] OM.2012.148 - Karen Imperial - P3- collage on paper
[303] OM.2012.149 - Karen Imperial - Black and Blue - collage on paper
301 - Matt Gonzalez - USA
OM.2012.147 - Matt Gonzalez - California, USA
[301] OM.2012.147 - Matt Gonzalez - 10 April, 2011 - collage on paper
300 - Fallon Wrede - USA
OM.2012.146 - Fallon Wrede - New Mexico, USA
[300] OM.2012.146 - Fallon Wrede - Invisible Girl - 2012 - collage on paper
299 - Dashiell Wrede - USA
OM.2012.145 - Dashiell Wrede - New Mexico USA
[299] OM.2012.145 - Dashiell Wrede - Flying Car - collage on paper - 2012
298 - Andrew Topel - USA
OM.2012.144 - Andrew Topel - USA
[298] OM.2012.144 - Andrew Topel - Florida, USA - 'X' - collage on canvas - 20x16 inches
297 - John Andrew Dixon - USA
OM.2012.143 - John Andrew Dixon - Kentucky, USA
[297] OM.2012.143 - John Andrew Dixon - Kentucky, USA
According to Matthew
Collage on Bristol
Collage on Bristol
(also see OM.2012.081-83)
296 - Maria De Lourdes Rabello Villares - Brazil
OM.2012.142 - Maria De Lourdes Rabello Villares - Brazil
[300] OM.2012.142 - Maria De Lourdes Rabello Villares - Brazil - FRAGMENTS - Arquivo de Obra Fragmentos - hand made book
This is my way: to collect fragments of the life, the Word, the poetry. I construct my history
though the history of the minimum, the remaining portion, the small one, the object and the
poetry. To tear, to cut, to reconstruct are my daily action: to preserve and to recycle are may
objectives. My trajectory in the art has relation with books of artists, artistic appropriations of
the public space, celebration of my city with the book “THE CITY AND THE MOUTAIN” beyond
expositions of art in biennal halls and others.
My relation with the collage is also a form of thought based on the principle: “In the nature
nothing is los, everything is changeded”. Thus my creative eye assimilates each thing, though
the space and super positions including the space of virtual clouds. The mutation renew that
we know. I use the collage, therefore, structurally, and, also of form to exercise the creativity,
as study and as end item. From now on, I make painting collages of screens on screens. I want
the unconventional space of picture and life.
Everything because I Know that my life will be forever a recycle collage of the other lives
and thoughts of others, in the communion with the humanity.
MARIA DE LOURDES RABELLO VILLARES
BRASIL
Belo Horizonte/Novembro/2011
295 - Claudia Drake - USA
OM.2012.141 - Claudia Drake - USA
OM.2012.141 - Claudia.Drake - The Hermit - Medium: Collage Print, Digital
Year: 2010 - Size: 8” x 12”, (14” x 18” framed)
Year: 2010 - Size: 8” x 12”, (14” x 18” framed)
294 - Jo Murray - Australia
om.2012.140 - Jo Murray - Australia
[294] om.2012.140 - Jo Murray - Australia
“RUST“ - 5” x 7” mounted on watercolour paper 8” x 10”
handmade, printed, and painted papers, rusted iron washer.
W: http://jomurray-art.blogspot.com.au/
Collage has always been of interest to me since I first saw Picasso’s works when I was in Art School. The simplicity of shapes, combined with simple line, got to the essence of a subject in a way realist painting can’t.
Since then, as I’ve progressed through various media in my own art journey, this notion has become more embedded in my way of thinking.
Since then, as I’ve progressed through various media in my own art journey, this notion has become more embedded in my way of thinking.
While it may be regarded as ‘contemporary’, collage is really not so modern. It has been around in some form since the invention of paper. Making it ‘modern’ though is the incorporation of contemporary materials such as plastic, or acrylics, and components of our high tech age.
To be able to add such personal things as the ephemera of daily life, tickets, old rusty stuff, bits of previous paintings, gives truth to the work and adds a real connection to the artist. In this way collage will continue to have its place in modern art.
To be able to add such personal things as the ephemera of daily life, tickets, old rusty stuff, bits of previous paintings, gives truth to the work and adds a real connection to the artist. In this way collage will continue to have its place in modern art.
292, 293 - Donna Merry - USA
OM.2012.138-139 - Donna Merry - USA
[296] OM.2012.138 - Donna Merry - USA - collage - 8x10 inches - 2012
[297] OM.2012.139 - Donna Merry - USA - collage - 8x10 inches - 2012
I am an artist that has recently discovered the art medium of collage. A pad of various colored papers spoke the word ‘create’. So I sat down, selected papers and began to compose a landscape, because that is what the colors before me suggested. As I tore and moved strips of paper around, the vistas of the American Southwest appeared, and I was pleased. Many vacations, as a child, were spent in and around the desert regions and it was a delightful experience to remember the moonrise above the low mountains in Arizona and the sunrise above the Colorado River. I will do more collage, as it is a calming respite from an otherwise hectic day and I will be looking at every piece of paper that enters my house in an entirely new way! It is a new way to recall dreams, daydream, make sense (or nonsense) of the present and future.
Collage and assemblage have previously been terms that describe what other artists do with scraps and leftover bits. Now, having completed a few collage pieces, I truly appreciate the construction process and the thought behind it. And it is so nice to be able to edit and rearrange the piece as it evolves instead of trying to cope with and adjust the more rigid mediums I have worked with in the past
291 - Keith Buchholz - USA
OM.2012.132 - Keith Buchholz - Missouri, USA
[290] OM.2012.132 - Keith Buchholz - Missouri, USA - collage with digital elements - ii x 8.5 inches
290 - Nicole Opiela - USA
OM.2012.131 - Nicole Opiela - Florida, USA
[288] om.2012.131 - Nicole Opiela - Florida, USA- digital collage - 5x7 inches
Description: small inkjet print of cutup prints in water with multiple textures, pieces of a human body that resemble inkjet paper.
Statement: In today’s world of advertising and insta culture, I think assemblage and collage become an everyday stream of the images I see throughout my day. I am readily influenced by all the cultural signs from E-advertising to logos on every street corner, which has been something I grew up. I don’t remember not using a computer. I think assemblage helps me reorder my life. I like cutting up images and placing them in water thinking about assembling a new image based on my thoughts about culture, the female figure, and the freedom and its association with the body and water. This is inspired by my faith, culture, and Midwestern upbringing. I think it is an assemblage of my life.
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