OM.2012.217-218 - Pal Csaba - Hungary - two re purposed compact disc cases
Showing posts with label * Box Assemblage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label * Box Assemblage. Show all posts
Friday, September 7, 2012
394-395 - Elizabeth Beckman - USA
OM.2012.215-216 - Elizabeth Beckman - USA - two re purposed chocolate tins
Thursday, July 19, 2012
283 - Donna J. Witten - USA
om.2012.124 - Donna J. Witten - USA
[283] om.2012.124 - Donna J. Witten - Peep Holls #1 - 2007
7" x 7" x 1" - 2007 -Cutout paper bird silhouttes in a Holl's chocolates cardboard box (Holls is a West Virginia small specialty chocolate business)
Thursday, April 12, 2012
273 - Janine Nichols - USA
OM.2012.112 - Janine Nichols - Railroaded - box assemblage
www.semi-free.com
www.flutterbox.net
www.jazzpaperscissors.
www.semi-free.com
www.flutterbox.net
www.jazzpaperscissors.
261 - Josie Beszant - UK
Materials used include: Old deeds, music, thread, gold leaf, acrylic, perspex, acetate, photographs, pattern paper.
The work shares themes dealt with in much of my art, those of spirituality and the impermanence of life. This specific piece looks at the presence of ancestors known and unknown in our lives the legacy of unknown history that becomes part of the fabric of our lives.
www.josiebeszant.co.uk
Sunday, March 4, 2012
220 - Seek Kali Collective
Artist Statement -
Seeking Kali has been interested in exploring collage making because it allows for 3D expression vs 'flat' media and as a 3D art work it invites the viewer IN to experience the piece.
What intrigues us is that it has an assembling aspect both as (obvious) technique and as statement, i.e. bringing together pieces to make a whole that is more than the sum of its parts.
This way, constructing an art piece by way of collage can be seen as a metaphor for expressing an idea by way of connecting/weaving/bringing together separate thought fragments. In a meta way it can be seen to stand for a society's challenge to connect heterogeneous forces therein.
What intrigues us is that it has an assembling aspect both as (obvious) technique and as statement, i.e. bringing together pieces to make a whole that is more than the sum of its parts.
This way, constructing an art piece by way of collage can be seen as a metaphor for expressing an idea by way of connecting/weaving/bringing together separate thought fragments. In a meta way it can be seen to stand for a society's challenge to connect heterogeneous forces therein.
The title, "Insidiae" with is Latin for conspiracy is a a play on words in relation to the method of art making we do as the Seeking Kali Collective. Our pieces are worked out as a group as a direct refutation of the idea of the artist as an isolated cultural worker.
Seeking Kali is William Evertson (USA), Susan Shulman (Canada) and Ria Vanden Eynde (Belgium)
Friday, March 2, 2012
210 - - Silvia Bocca - Buenos Aires, Argentina
OM.2012.075 - Silvia Bocca - Buenos Aires, Argentina -Blue eye shadow (2012), 6x8x7 cm. Description: Assemblage in a used eye shadow box, acetate film, carved design on transparent plastic, found objects and oil colours.
207- June Levinson - USA
OM.2012.071 - June Levinson - USA - Box Assemblage
The juror, Dina Deitsch, is a curator at the De Cordova Museum. She selects
and exhibits new edgy art for enjoyment and education of museum goers.
Her choices are often experimental and unique which immediately unnerved
me. But I love a challenge and here was one. Even the wrappings had to be
included for the sake of authentication.
There were numerous ways to approach the box: paint on it, collage the inside
or perhaps make it the art object. How bizarre. It looked utilitarian and plain -
a common box from the post office. But that was the point. Transform it. We all
had to use the exact same size, which was my first obstacle. My Waltham Post
Office plus ones in Newton and Wellesley displayed every size but that one. I
was forced to order from them and learned nine was the minimum number
I could order, but wouldn’t be charged which was the only good part. After I
finished the project, I returned the eight unused ones to my local post office and
they were delighted to receive the extras.
Then the real hard part came…what can I do with it? Somehow, after mulling
over what I believed to be the essence, a single thought meandered through
my mind. There’s only one reason for the omnipresent box-the computer.
The phenomenon is worldwide, growing, relentless. Coming to that conclusion,
I drove to A.C Moore, the mammoth craft store, to purchase stickers from
many countries. Unfortunately, I found that international stickers were not hot
items and I had to settle for the U.S., England and France, which had one good
thing in common-they were all red, white and blue. At least they wouldn’t clash,
but I did so want China or Japan. And another problem surfaced and could not
be ignored. The stickers should cover the four inside flaps but my supply ended
at three. I did what any self respecting grandmother would do, I asked my
granddaughter what occurred to her when she thought of purchases through the
internet.
“That’s easy,” Rachel said, not missing a beat, “it’s transportation”.
“Oh,” I said realizing yet again her superior intelligence. “What a great idea and
I even have some in the house that your sister used.” And I muttered to myself
that somehow I remembered that they were mostly the same colors.
But now the hard part -the item to go into the box and over and under the red
and white bubble wrap.
“I’ve got it,” I thought. I pass a computer repair shop on my daily walk and know
that parts are often discarded and I saw some remnants in a box in the window. I
walked in hopeful some pieces might be available to me so I attempted
to speak to the shop owner and tried to explain the art project. Since his
English was none too fluent and my Chinese was nonexistent, we had a hard
time communicating about this esoteric concept. I pointed to the odds and ends
and he handed me three pieces that I might not have selected, but was totally
appreciative of my good luck, especially because one eight by nine inch piece
was red and more significant fit exactly.
The deadline was nearing. After all, I had lost time having the boxes shipped, but
my entry would arrive in time and I could finally stop obsessing over the box.
One week later I received an email that my work had been accepted. Even if it
hadn’t it would have been a provocative pursuit, but I preferred this conclusion.
The show was engrossing with no two pieces even close to being alike. I loved
being a participant and would do it all over again.
June Levinson September 2011
Ms. Levinson explains the origin of this work of art...
In and Out of the Box - Artist Statament
Has a box replaced a bag in your life? Do you find fewer bags to recycle
replaced by multiple boxes sent by mail mostly because of virtual purchases?
If so, join millions whose numbers increase daily. Amazon, for example, sells
everything and often at lower prices which preclude running to the stores to find
an elusive item. The change in this way of buying intrigued the Hera Gallery, a
small innovative gallery, in Wakefield, R.I. They called for artists, to compete in a
national juried exhibit. Each artist had to get a 9”x11”x 6” Priority Mail Box
from the U.S. Postal service to visually interpret the altered way that people
now buy goods. Also an artist statement was required to accompany the piece.
Has a box replaced a bag in your life? Do you find fewer bags to recycle
replaced by multiple boxes sent by mail mostly because of virtual purchases?
If so, join millions whose numbers increase daily. Amazon, for example, sells
everything and often at lower prices which preclude running to the stores to find
an elusive item. The change in this way of buying intrigued the Hera Gallery, a
small innovative gallery, in Wakefield, R.I. They called for artists, to compete in a
national juried exhibit. Each artist had to get a 9”x11”x 6” Priority Mail Box
from the U.S. Postal service to visually interpret the altered way that people
now buy goods. Also an artist statement was required to accompany the piece.
The juror, Dina Deitsch, is a curator at the De Cordova Museum. She selects
and exhibits new edgy art for enjoyment and education of museum goers.
Her choices are often experimental and unique which immediately unnerved
me. But I love a challenge and here was one. Even the wrappings had to be
included for the sake of authentication.
There were numerous ways to approach the box: paint on it, collage the inside
or perhaps make it the art object. How bizarre. It looked utilitarian and plain -
a common box from the post office. But that was the point. Transform it. We all
had to use the exact same size, which was my first obstacle. My Waltham Post
Office plus ones in Newton and Wellesley displayed every size but that one. I
was forced to order from them and learned nine was the minimum number
I could order, but wouldn’t be charged which was the only good part. After I
finished the project, I returned the eight unused ones to my local post office and
they were delighted to receive the extras.
Then the real hard part came…what can I do with it? Somehow, after mulling
over what I believed to be the essence, a single thought meandered through
my mind. There’s only one reason for the omnipresent box-the computer.
The phenomenon is worldwide, growing, relentless. Coming to that conclusion,
I drove to A.C Moore, the mammoth craft store, to purchase stickers from
many countries. Unfortunately, I found that international stickers were not hot
items and I had to settle for the U.S., England and France, which had one good
thing in common-they were all red, white and blue. At least they wouldn’t clash,
but I did so want China or Japan. And another problem surfaced and could not
be ignored. The stickers should cover the four inside flaps but my supply ended
at three. I did what any self respecting grandmother would do, I asked my
granddaughter what occurred to her when she thought of purchases through the
internet.
“That’s easy,” Rachel said, not missing a beat, “it’s transportation”.
“Oh,” I said realizing yet again her superior intelligence. “What a great idea and
I even have some in the house that your sister used.” And I muttered to myself
that somehow I remembered that they were mostly the same colors.
But now the hard part -the item to go into the box and over and under the red
and white bubble wrap.
“I’ve got it,” I thought. I pass a computer repair shop on my daily walk and know
that parts are often discarded and I saw some remnants in a box in the window. I
walked in hopeful some pieces might be available to me so I attempted
to speak to the shop owner and tried to explain the art project. Since his
English was none too fluent and my Chinese was nonexistent, we had a hard
time communicating about this esoteric concept. I pointed to the odds and ends
and he handed me three pieces that I might not have selected, but was totally
appreciative of my good luck, especially because one eight by nine inch piece
was red and more significant fit exactly.
The deadline was nearing. After all, I had lost time having the boxes shipped, but
my entry would arrive in time and I could finally stop obsessing over the box.
One week later I received an email that my work had been accepted. Even if it
hadn’t it would have been a provocative pursuit, but I preferred this conclusion.
The show was engrossing with no two pieces even close to being alike. I loved
being a participant and would do it all over again.
June Levinson September 2011
206 - Andrew Riley Clark - USA
Box assemblage, 3.7 x 6.9 x 2.5 cm (closed)
88arc88.blogspot.com
Statement:
I'm relatively new to assemblage per se, but for me it seems to be
coming from a number of existing projects, interests, and influences:
found objects, painting, collage, junk & detritus, urban decay,
mechanical/industrial aesthetics, toys & miniatures, model building,
sci fi & fantasy. I enjoy taking seemingly useless and discardable
pieces and making them into their own little worlds.
Monday, February 6, 2012
[187] - Wolfgang Faller - Germany
Saturday, February 4, 2012
[163] Caroline Waite - USA
OM.2009.045 - Caroline Waite - USA - 'Spectators' - Altered Cigar Box with the lid made into a stage upon it is a plastic ballerina figurine surrounded by doll arms, in the background three swans above them a line of doll eyeballs (stage lights) that open and close. Attached to the top of the stage is an ornate facade then the whole stage lined with gold colored filigree.
Origin: gift of the artist for Fluxhibition #3 Thinking Inside of the Box - This image used for the catalog cover
http://carolinewaite.com
http://carolinewaite.com
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
[128] D.S.H. Watson - USA
D.S.H. Watson - USA
[Flux4-028] Game: Screw People; Take Their Money
felt lined wooden box with small screw driver, screw, dropper with money inside, Instructions.Description: game box containing gaming pieces:
- screw
- screwing device
- money extractor
Origin: Fluxhibition #4 - 2010
Monday, January 30, 2012
[114, 115] Caranovic Predrag - Serbia
Caranovic Predrag - Serbia - antique photograph in a gold frame from Serbia - 4.5x6.5 inches
"I bought this picture of Gypsies in the market. At that moment I was reminded of a work by Man Ray. A few years later I realized it's probably a factory for the production bamboo hats. But I do not care. For me, this like exhibition of nothing. This is a picture in a frame kolage. This is the story of the photograph." - Caranovic Predrag
Caranovic Predrag - Serbia - 'Bullshit ...Unexpected Experience'
materials: wooden box with latch, printed matter, red velvetine fabric,
bullshit encased in a half sphere of resin
[from Fluxhibition #4 -016]
materials: wooden box with latch, printed matter, red velvetine fabric,
bullshit encased in a half sphere of resin
[from Fluxhibition #4 -016]
I started the path of classical sculpture, since 1974; over the time transfer myself to Object Art. But for the last few years I have become closer to Assemblage. Now I started a new direction, from something that I have called Essays sculpture.
The shown image is montage of my effort to try to point to the possibility of assembling the frame as I am recognized.
The shown image is montage of my effort to try to point to the possibility of assembling the frame as I am recognized.
[110] - Kathleen McHugh - USA
OM.2012.026 - Kathleen McHugh - USA - Box Assemblage
Size: 3.5 x 3.5 x 2. - Media: Watercolor, dyes, acrylic, ink and pastel on Asian papers, and blown egg / with peacock feather.
Size: 3.5 x 3.5 x 2. - Media: Watercolor, dyes, acrylic, ink and pastel on Asian papers, and blown egg / with peacock feather.
mchughart.net
Statement:
My introduction to collage and assemblage as a serious art happened in a workshop I took with Betye Saar (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6688207 ) Seeing 'The Liberation of Aunt Jemima,' learning the story behind the inspiration of the work, and how the medium of assemblage itself is the carrier of the message, is a formative influence in how I approach this art form. In addition to sharing her own artistry, Saar was a wealth of knowledge in visual language and techniques. The experience with her ended on the note of "go dumpster diving, rummaging, and while sifting through ephemera find your own aesthetic and voice". In the early 1980's during the time I was in her class, a dominant influence in the arts was minimalism. The drive seemed to be to eliminate anything superfluous. IE., Get rid of the wing of the bird, and keep the curve. It seemed as if anything visceral and tactile was a cheap trick or distraction from "real art". Real music didn't have a melody, real visual art didn't have lush painterly sensuality, and real architecture forgot about its relationship to human scale. Assemblage and collage seemed like air and water to me, necessary for the life and survival of the human element of artmaking within the larger dry desert of intellectual art. This box assemblage is created in memory of the emotion I felt when first seeing assemblage: assemblages and collages as visual melodies and carriers of humanistic expression and communication.
[109]- K. S. Ernst - USA
OM.2012.025 - K. S. Ernst - USA - "The Sound of My Voice" - Shadow box assemblage
http://ksernst.com/home.html
http://ksernst.com/home.html
[108] - Diane Schapira - USA
OM.2011.214 - Diane Schapira - USA - - "Reflections on Allusions to Memory" Box Assemblage
This assemblage is created in a wooden cigar box. It includes both found and created objects.
Artist Statement
An assemblage is created by accretion/layering which creates the opportunity for:
Assemblage can include the delight of the found and the chosen.
I can use objects literally, constructively, decoratively; as metaphors, symbols, aides-memoire.
Paint, paper, marker, fabric, nature: assemblage is all accepting.
This assemblage is created in a wooden cigar box. It includes both found and created objects.
Artist Statement
An assemblage is created by accretion/layering which creates the opportunity for:
- shadows and reflections
- magic spaces
- architecture
- mechanical invention
Assemblage can include the delight of the found and the chosen.
I can use objects literally, constructively, decoratively; as metaphors, symbols, aides-memoire.
Paint, paper, marker, fabric, nature: assemblage is all accepting.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
[074-075-076] TICTAC - Germany
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| OM.2011.192 - TICTAC - Germany - 'My Little Primer' Children's Fluxus Primer - Box Assemblage with foam letters that spell FLUXUS. |
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| OM.2011.193 - TICTAC - Germany - 'Nektasr |
om.2011.123 - Description: collage/assemblage on white paper with black marker drawing, half plastic small dropper bottle and mounted inside a gold metal box lid 18,2x26 cm red outside with vintage angels.
Titled: Flux.us
links:
My statement: Collage and assemblage are, to me, pure subversive poetics celebrating creativity's freedom of expression.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
[059-064] Evelyn Eller (USA)
OM.2011.071 -Evelyn Eller (USA) Collage for Collage Centennial Exhibition
Gift of the artist
Artist Statement
I started making collages while still a student at the Art Students League in NY, and continued the practice while on a Fulbright Grant in Italy, and during a summer when I lived in San Francisco. I utilized the different papers that I found in these locations. Collage allows me to make art when I am traveling and don’t have access to a studio.
When I was doing large scale acrylic paintings I often added rice paper to my canvas. Recently, I have been working primarily in paper collage and artist’s books. I love the variety of materials that can be used in collage. My work incorporates painted, handmade, oriental, and acid free papers, as well as objects, transparent film, boxes, photos, my own prints, maps, string and text. Collage is a discipline in which I can express my ideas on memory, travel, language and nature.
Additional work in the collection
OM.2009.001 - Evelyn Eller - collage on paper - 1967
OM.2009.002 - Evelyn Eller - collage on paper - 1967
OM.2009.003 - Evelyn Eller - collage on paper - 1986
OM.2009.004 - Evelyn Eller - collage on paper - 1987
OM.2009.005 - Evelyn Eller - USA - Art about Art - Handmade book with plastic case - 5x4x.5 inches
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