OM.2012.111 Joseph Moniz - Thoughts and Clouds - 38" x 60" mixed media on paper ( in progress) 2010
Thursday, April 12, 2012
272 - Joseph Moniz - USA
OM.2012.111 Joseph Moniz - Thoughts and Clouds - 38" x 60" mixed media on paper ( in progress) 2010
270 - Zoran Palurovic - Serbia
OM.2012.108 - Zoran Palurovic - A piece of Biedermeier - 18.5x28.cm - 2011- paper collage
269 - Richard Misiano-Genovese - USA
OM.2012.107 - Richard Misiano-Genovese - USA - Woman-Feathers
Fire Works
The first thing that comes to mind here is the moment I discovered fire; not in the sense of when as a child I
marveled at the bright flickering flames, or the heat radiating outwards but when playing with a bit of drawing and then touching the paper here and there with the lit match so that the paper would be blackened from the soot, or singed from the heat, and then openly burned. It was more in the discovery that the fascination and excitement that fire seems to hold over children fades with maturity.
I found that I was able to reach deep into my own psyche, and find the remnants of the fascination that playing
with fire held for me. Animals instinctively fear smoke and flames and will flee at the mere presence of fire, but humans are a strange lot. Fire appeals to our emotive levels if not our intellectual ones. My balancing act of burning my drawings, or rather burning with my drawings, was an attempt to explore unfamiliar territory, or at least less familiar than fading memories of my childhood fascination with fire, like most other children.
It is with these assemblages I played with fire.
The act of burning paper, allowing the heat and flames to consume the pulpy substance, with minimal control over the end results, is further excited by the anticipation of how this very automatic writing in smoke and flame will proceed to consume and literally re-compose an artwork as it decomposes it as well. When in the process of drawing some ideas that spill out from the subconscious regions of the mind, there is no real sense of anticipation as to what shall transpire next when flame is put to paper. The act of burning reduces too, the “preciousness” of the drawing by relegating it to the flames. The attachment of the offending matches becomes the protagonist in this drama play. Action art, the quest for truth and reason but in the end a destructive force which reduces itself to a state of grace upon further examination. It is in this mixture of proposing an idea in pencil or ink as an image, with a bit of facile attention to the materials, and then assailed by the natural force of chemistry, nature’s gifts manipulated by man into the most primal technology: fire.
Richard Misiano-Genovese
(2010)
268 - Lis Gundlach-Sell - Denmark
OM.2012.106 Lis Gundlach-Sell - “Fragile” 2012, Assemblage, h 26,3cm x w 20,5cm,
Cardboard,wire,tape,frame
Cardboard,wire,tape,frame
Artist Statement:
Standing or hanging, tiny or enormous, two- or three dimensional, simple or complex, made out of all sorts
of paper or materials - gratis, cheap or expensive - rubbish, found objects, everyday objects - sometimes
in combination with drawing, painting, sculpture and/or photo…… crazy, amusing, beautiful, abstract,
extraordinary, subtle, cubistic, surrealistic, Dadaistic, Neo-Dadaistic, Fluxus, Pop-art, constructivist,
aesthetic, ironical, psychological, philosophic, daring, romantic, expressionist, classic, anarchist, humorous,
literary, baroque, theoretical, formalistic, lively, religious, conceptual, ugly, lyrical, poetic, prosaic, sad,
elegant, sublime, critical of society, concrete, charming, desperate, depressed, aristocratic, solemn, elegiac,
fancy, spiritual, serious, revolutionary, spherical, fantastic…...
I think what characterizes collage, assemblage and constructive art is this overwhelming variety and the
endless amount of possibilities, enough for everybody forever. The future will create new artists making
art in a way we cannot imagine today. It is impossible to know but I do believe that because of the
enormous qualities and possibilities collage, assemblage and constructive art will still be a form of art
making for future generations.
Standing or hanging, tiny or enormous, two- or three dimensional, simple or complex, made out of all sorts
of paper or materials - gratis, cheap or expensive - rubbish, found objects, everyday objects - sometimes
in combination with drawing, painting, sculpture and/or photo…… crazy, amusing, beautiful, abstract,
extraordinary, subtle, cubistic, surrealistic, Dadaistic, Neo-Dadaistic, Fluxus, Pop-art, constructivist,
aesthetic, ironical, psychological, philosophic, daring, romantic, expressionist, classic, anarchist, humorous,
literary, baroque, theoretical, formalistic, lively, religious, conceptual, ugly, lyrical, poetic, prosaic, sad,
elegant, sublime, critical of society, concrete, charming, desperate, depressed, aristocratic, solemn, elegiac,
fancy, spiritual, serious, revolutionary, spherical, fantastic…...
I think what characterizes collage, assemblage and constructive art is this overwhelming variety and the
endless amount of possibilities, enough for everybody forever. The future will create new artists making
art in a way we cannot imagine today. It is impossible to know but I do believe that because of the
enormous qualities and possibilities collage, assemblage and constructive art will still be a form of art
making for future generations.
267 - Alison Wells - USA
OM.2012.105 - Alison Wells - USA - Title: The City is Killing Me"
Medium: Acrylic, oil and paper collage on paper Size: 10"x8" Year: 2006
Medium: Acrylic, oil and paper collage on paper Size: 10"x8" Year: 2006
Statement for Collage/Assemblage Centennial 1912-2012
I consider collage to be a fascinating and intriguing art form. The process of collage
involves an intimate and hands-on involvement with the medium and thus gives it a very
tactile feel. I particularly enjoy layering and piecing together of various materials to bring
an idea and concept alive giving it incredible charm and vitality.
In contemporary art Collage is a popular and highly valued art form. The artist possesses
the freedom to manipulate the medium in a variety of manners with out feeling restricted
into certain structured rules that other mediums may demand. The Art form is flexible
and varied because there is such a variety and wide range of collage materials that exist.
It is also a wonderful and versatile medium used by both beginning and experienced
artists alike and I particularly enjoy it because of its never ending possibilities for
exploration and experimentation.
264, 265, 266 - David Baptiste Chirot - USA
OM.2012.102 - David Baptiste Chirot - FLUXUS STREET THEATRE
OM.2012.103 - David Baptiste Chirot -The Hideout
OM.2012.104 - David Baptiste Chirot - Death from This Window
263 - Suzé Gilbert - USA
OM.2012.101 - Suzé Gilbert - Maroc, July 1903 - USA - postcard collage
Artist Statement:
When I was young I watched my Polish great-grandmother gather scraps of old worn-out clothing and by sewing those pieces together, create a utilitarian quilt. Inspired by her patience in cutting and stitching, collage brings together those disparate elements of cast- off fragments of life, whether it be magazines, clothing, letters, or books.
The process of creating a new dialogue by incorporating pieces of paper into a cohesive whole is a meditative process for me, and one that continues to engage me as printed matter declines in our technological present life.262 - Kristin Reed - USA
OM.2012.100 - Kristin Reed - USA - mixed media collage
www.kristinreed.com
www.kristinreed.com
STATEMENT
Collage, assemblage and montage have been used since the early days of art making when grasses, twigs, shells and available materials were assembled for the purpose of expression and decoration. In most of our contemporary lives it has been something available to us since childhood for expressing ourselves using small physical details from our daily lives in pictures or scrapbooks, much in the way that our life’s daily residues enter our dream world.
In my studio I often experiment with ideas by assembling scraps of things that catch my eye and are collected around my space, waiting for a “play day.” During these “free-flow of-ideas” sessions very spontaneous work comes through that is often different from my other work. The resultant pieces inspire ideas for painting and larger finished pieces. Or sometimes stand forever on their own—as a record of a moment in my very personal art making process.
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
260 - Elizabeth Ostrander - USA
OM.2012.098 - Elizabeth Ostrander - Eastport Beach Composition #2
found material, acrylic, paper within a sardine can
Height 4 inches x Width 3 ½ inches x Depth 1 inch
elizabethostrander.com
found material, acrylic, paper within a sardine can
Height 4 inches x Width 3 ½ inches x Depth 1 inch
elizabethostrander.com
ARTIST STATEMENT
Elizabeth Ostrander
Accumulation, serendipity, and the surprise of juxtaposition, to me, replicates life, elements that become messages artists use to create order in unified realities expressed thru the forms of collage, assemblage, and constructs…unfettered uniqueness and personal.
My on going series of little assemblages created inside sardine cans feels satisfying to me as well as integrated. I live on a island in Maine, way north in Passamaquoddy Bay looking across to Canada. At one time its island shores were filled with sardine factories, in its heyday, its port even rivaled New York City. But fished-out long ago, today there is not one single fish factory left, now it is the art galleries turn to flourish…this another example of community being saved by Art…and so time marches on to different tunes. I walk the beaches and collect bits of nature, and parts of aged machinery, along with more contemporary trash. Back in the studio, I compose my island beach moments into the now imported sardine cans. To me, they are like portraits of my island’s cycling history all enmeshed with mine and my assemblaged sardine-can art becomes a mash-up of moments and objects held in timeless composition.
Elizabeth Ostrander
Accumulation, serendipity, and the surprise of juxtaposition, to me, replicates life, elements that become messages artists use to create order in unified realities expressed thru the forms of collage, assemblage, and constructs…unfettered uniqueness and personal.
My on going series of little assemblages created inside sardine cans feels satisfying to me as well as integrated. I live on a island in Maine, way north in Passamaquoddy Bay looking across to Canada. At one time its island shores were filled with sardine factories, in its heyday, its port even rivaled New York City. But fished-out long ago, today there is not one single fish factory left, now it is the art galleries turn to flourish…this another example of community being saved by Art…and so time marches on to different tunes. I walk the beaches and collect bits of nature, and parts of aged machinery, along with more contemporary trash. Back in the studio, I compose my island beach moments into the now imported sardine cans. To me, they are like portraits of my island’s cycling history all enmeshed with mine and my assemblaged sardine-can art becomes a mash-up of moments and objects held in timeless composition.
259 - Marina Bancroft - Canada
OM.2012.097 - Marina Bancroft - The Blue Eye- 2007 - 16” x 16” x 5/8” - Collage on canvas
- I have to play with the materials at hand, moving the bits and pieces around, until they settle into their spots, and then stay there. Somehow, the resulting image makes sense to me. I never know how or why it all comes together, but collage is the way through.
258 - Rebecca Swanson - USA
OM.2012.096 Rebecca Swanson Time Passages
Collage allows my subconscious mind to become conscious thinking. In Time Passages,
I am pondering human relationships and the fragility of life. We are all in a never ending shifting, growing, changing, dying cycle. In this piece, I use discarded paintings, pen and ink drawings and color copies.
257 - Cordula Kagemann - Germany
OM.2012.095 - Cordula Kagemann - Germany - In Touch - 12x12 inches - mixed media collage on canvas ( found papers and images, acrylics, varnish and graphite.)
256 - Ellen Alt - USA
OM.2012.094 - Ellen Alt - USA - wall assemblage - 16x24 inches
Statement:
Collage is my baseline, history and foundation. It is where I spring off from and bounce back to. It is all about the mixing: the endless combinations of papers, natural elements next to abstract ones and fine art with everyday objects. I arrange materials like paint and then pour wax and epoxy resin. My goal is forming cohesion though spontaneity and play.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
255 - Angela Caporaso - Italy
OM.2011.212 - Angela Caporaso - Italy - "Les Yeux" collage - 6.25 x 4.5 inches - www.angelacaporaso.com
254- Marcela Liliana Mander - Argentina
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| OM.2011.211 - Marcela Liliana Mander - Argentina - paper collage - 11 x 10.25 inches |
253 - Karlyn Atkinson Berg - USA,
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OM.2011.201 - Karlyn Atkinson Berg - “Lace Totem” - Collage on paper |
ARTIST STATEMENT
I do not have a rigid or predetermined structure for the creation of a piece. A single color or shape or image may spark an entire composition. As I sort and work with materials, some will seem to connect individually or in groups creating an interaction in color, space and form. Each added element will build on the previous one by changing, adding, or even eliminating the other components. Knowing what to remove becomes as important as knowing what to add to the work. Whole sections may be chopped up and reassembled or even moved to another work. As the painting unfolds, images change. Realistic objects may no longer be recognizable on their own and will become only an element in the larger sensibility or visual impression. The intention of the work is a visual experience and, like the words of a poem or song, should leave you with an image and emotion.
252 - Win Straube - USA
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| OM.2011.199 - Win Straube - USA -36 x 44.5 inches - digital print of a vintage stamp collage |
Assemblage, collage and constructive art as a genre is constantly evolving to reflect the changes and evolutions of our understanding of the art world at its time of creation. The evolution of these art forms is much like the evolution of physics: we begin with the simple, solid Newtonian rules, but through relativity and quantum dynamics find ourselves in chaos theory with the butterfly effect; transformations building on the simple, creating multi-faceted works which are totally new, more comprehensive, more dimensional renderings of objects and expressions.
The Ebu-Arts philosophy is that its works are not the sole presentation of individualistic themes or thoughts, but are the embodiment of value-enhancing relationships, in the form of individual pieces of precious value joining together, creating a “worth its weight in gold” communal body of its own distinct dimensions and scope. Ebu-Arts pieces, therefore, are fascinating and mind expanding to examine. Better yet for me, when I have the opportunity, I delight in the use of “strange attractors” in the creation of such pieces of art. “Strange” because their diversity is infinitely complex, and “attractors” because in their total they are always drawn toward the behavior represented within them. Spooky? I hope not! But truly entertaining and very informative, regardless whether passively enjoyed or actively created.
That is what my submission pieces of Ebu-Arts#1 and Ebu-Arts#2 represent: In this case mosaic assemblages of a carefully considered selection of valuable stamps, each one of which is a nationally chosen art rendering of a specific subject, yet here melded into one totality of ideas and expressions, realized in one powerful unique identity of its own. To be enjoyed as a contemporary whole. Yet like newly discovered fractals, the closer the examination, the more revealing. Have fun!
251 - Win Straube - USA
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| OM.2011.199 - Win Straube - USA -digital print of a vintage stamp collage - 32.5 x 44.5 - an example of what the artist calls Ebullient Art |
Ebu-Arts is the combination of many precious value art pieces (maybe hundreds or more) into ONE major work of art with its own meaning. The final product is an Ebullient and Brilliant Universe of the Arts, very much like a country or the entire world seen from space is composed of many many individual valuable communities which may be quite different from each other, yet as a whole they form ONE unique home of its very own significance, appearing in stark, uplifting beauty.
Its philosophy is that Ebu-Arts works are not the sole presentation of individualistic themes or thoughts, whatever they may be, but are the embodiment of value-enhancing relationships, in the form of individual pieces of precious value joining together, creating a “worth its weight in gold” communal body of its own distinct dimensions and scope.
Thus Ebu-Arts is NOT, and in fact far removed from “recycled” or “upcycled art,” or “naive art” or “vernacular art” or “conceptual” or “neo-conceptual” art, but it could be “made by untrained artists” or could be just basic “fine art,” two dimensional as well as three-dimensional, as long as it is made of a multitude of innate high value fine art or historical pieces, which in their combination form an Ebullient and Brilliant Universe of the ARTS.
see: http://ebu-arts.org/
250 - Adriana Langtry Carreri - Italy
OM.2011.198 -ADRIANA LANGTRY CARRERI -Milan, ITALY - “Uranian Alphabet” -
dimensions: 13x 18 cm -2011 - mixed media collage
Web: www.collagepoesie.it
STATEMENT:
Collage is an ancient technique with an enormous expressive potential. It offers a lot of opportunities for experimentation with materials and invention of new realities. Cutting, tearing, layering, pasting, shifting and removing pieces, painting my own papers, looking for old images or working with asemic writing, I feel like an alchemist exploring the mystery or a “dirty nails” gardener planting seeds. Collage for me is freedom of expression, an endless creative research in a constant metamorphosis. A bright fragment of life.249 - Jessica Porterfield - USA
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| Jessica Porterfield - USA - collage on canvas - 8x10 inches - Materials: primed canvas, acrylic paint, scrapbook paper, hand carved stamp image, gel medium |
Never before in time have there been so many mediums to combine to express beauty or political statements or spiritual truth than currently. one can intermingle a polymer clay piece with a found object
or that perfect book page or scrap of altered paper and make something so essential.
Collage satisfies some deep itch since it marries so may other art forms together. The painting, the tactile tearing of paper, and fitting together disparate pieces of paper or found objects is deeply moving
and necessary to me.
248 - Patricia Sahertain - USA
OM.2011.196 - Patricia Sahertain - USA - collage - 6x4 inches
title: I Dropped My Bags and Sat On the Bed
title: I Dropped My Bags and Sat On the Bed
237 - 246 - Marianne Midelburg - Australia
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| Above OM.2011.182-187 - Marianne Midelburg - Australia - 6 black and white 'vest' collages - 18 x 15.5 cm |
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| Above OM.2011.188-189 - 2 color 'Vest' collages - 23.5 x 17.5 cm |
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| OM.2011.190 - 'Strange Children' collage - 23.5 x 18.5 cm |
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| OM.2011.191 collage titled 'Separate Vacations' - 26.5 x 19.7 cm |
OM.2011.182-191 - Marianne Midelburg is a textile artist living in Victoria, Australia
web: http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/midelburg/web
ARTIST STATEMENT
I've been making collages for a number of years. I started off very small, just making a few cards for friends. Then, several years ago I met a fellow artist, who introduced me to international mail art projects and my interest and experimentations with collage greatly increased. I thoroughly enjoy the art of gleaning, i.e. finding the materials with which I create my paper collages and my textile art works. The methodical and repetitive nature of creating themed collages gives me great pleasure. I often use humor and word play in my works. I regularly visit many of the charity shops and garage sales, as well as markets and the recycle tip-shops in Bendigo, where I find a wide variety of free or extremely cheap materials, which have collage potential. We live in such a throw-away society, which is great for the creative gleaner. (Aug. 2011)
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