[153] Berni Stephanus - Switzerland

 

OM.2012.033 - Berni Stephanus - Switzerland - 'Breakdown' - 01/16/2011 - collage with magazine papers.

http://stephanus.com

[152] Carol Jensen - USA

OM.2012.031 - Carol Jensen - USA - 'Winter Landscape' - collage - 4 1/8 x 6 1/4" - composed of torn and cut construction paper and solvent altered magazine images.

 ARTIST STATEMENT

I use collage to express my feelings about what I see around me. I live in the rolling rural landscape of southeastern Wisconsin in what is known as the Kettle Moraine, an area that was sculpted by glaciers eons ago.  I'm attempting to capture the feeling of the land here - the austere beauty of winter to the lush palette of summer greens. 

My subjects also include the wide fields not long for the developer's excavator and the disappearing barns

and farmhouses.  These things are important to me and I mourn their passing.  By working small I hope to draw the viewer in.  I want to communicate the preciousness of what we are losing.  I think it is an interesting paradox that I can use bits and pieces from my very modern life, such as junk mail and current magazines, to tell this story.

[151] Martin Holm - Sweden

 OM.2012.063 - Martin Holm - Sweden - Sarah Palin, Dinosaurus Rex
2011, A4-format, Printed Paper and Acrylics.
Made from fragments of Zdeněk Burian's dinosaur illustrations.

http://mjholm.daportfolio.com/

Artist Statement
I don't see my work as collage – for me it is painting: The paint I use comes with
pictures in it, and as it doesn't blend, painting with it is like the laying of a jig-saw
puzzle, one that is open-ended, and without rules. I don't stockpile material – I like it
fresh: I don't go hunting for it, it comes to me. In that way, each piece retains its roots
in the material: I work with it, not against it. Mind from matter, in other words.

In my work I (ab)use iconical imagery, both classical and contemporary, to summon
a sense of recognition. Figuring out the connection between the chosen image and the
material used to produce it, is perhaps the most entertaining part.

[149 &150] Joan Schulze - USA

OM.2012.061 - Joan Schulze - USA - collage on paper

 OM.2012.062 - Joan Schulze - USA - collage on paper

www.joan-of-arts.com

Statement

Collage is wonderfully open ended and it appeals to many artists of all ages, experience
and skill. It is a forgiving process. There are those who practice perfection which can
dazzle even the most jaded. Others like myself, move quickly through ideas, moving
along in an expedient way, layering over mishaps, building to a conclusion without
regard to ‘proper’ technique and materials. My intent as an artist and writer is always to
find the poetry in the materials while being in the moment to reach something that feels
fresh and new. I offer this poem, a collage of words that I wrote in 2009.i

What is Left Out

syllable by syllable
line by line
shunning adjectives
evading metaphors
silent, impatient connections
dots of the imagination

this seamless composition
once finished echoes
like the singing bowl,
struck once
reverberating
over and over

Joan Schulze
August 10, 2009

[148] Anthony Cricchio - USA

OM.2012.056 Anthony Cricchio - USA - "Warped Location"  2012 - 9" x 12" Basswood with Found Objects

Statement:

Collage is an art medium that inherently links the past to the present, always being an invention from one art form transforming itself from time and place. When Picasso began sticking together found objects to his paintings in the early part of the last century, who knew the literal cutting and pasting would evolve into the virtual world of photoshop magic.   Through the years collage has been used to explore architecture. From Le Corbusier and the constructivists to Bernhard Hoesli and Colin Rowe, collage has been used as a tool to explore and teach ideas of transparency and three dimensional space. Although collage has transformed into other subsets of assemblage, bricolage, and montage, the medium always retained its heart of being a starting point to an unknown end, a beginning.

Anthony Cricchio, RA

Assistant Professor of Architecture

University of Oklahoma College of Architecture

[147] Marie Kafeero - USA

OM.2012.055 -  Marie Kafeero - USA -   "Sometimes We Wear Disguises 1" -  2012
 Original Mixed Media (Archival Ink, Bristol paper, Found Vintage Photograph, Acrylic
 Paint, Pencil, Glue, Colored Pencil)

Statement:

In today’s world we are bombarded with imagery. Sometimes this imagery makes
impressions on one’s mind that only the subconscious can attempt to mill through
(i.e.-persuasive advertising, horror movie nightmares etc.). For me, collage is
the answer to exposing the effects of media imagery of the past and present to
determine its sometimes constructive and often destructive effects on our minds.
My studio space can also be said to exist as a “collecting point” for everything from
the most obscure printed materials to objects existing in our everyday popular
culture. The majority of my work, though often not devoid of humor, presents the
stark reality of cultural and media influence ticking ‘right beneath our nose’. In
this way, I see my process of making as “visual journalism”. I am reporting on the
impressions and effects on individuals when exposed to this imagery in our daily
lives. The juxtaposition of visual “remnants” both new and old calls into question
their role in our society. These seemingly unrelated realities lie beneath the surface
in our technological age. They are propelling us forward before we realize the
effects of our exposure. Nor do we consider any antidotal possibilities. Collage
exists as a potential catalyst to visually question. We are encouraged to decipher
and redefine the imagery in our minds.

[146] Kelly Gorman - USA

OM.2012.054 - Kelly Gorman - USA -   "The Three Palm Seers"  2009
 Original Collage (Found Paper, glue, found vintage postcard)
 Note: This work was created in the UK and previously exhibited in the UK


Statement:

Collage allows us the opportunity to see everyday images in a very different way. In
this image, people walk past the shoreline to look out at how the imagery has began
to shape itself into the rocks of their natural world. Are they surprised that this has
become their natural world? …Or is it an unquestioned glance as they continue their
weekend stroll down the dirt trail?

 www.kellygorman.com

[145] Artist: Margaret Suchland - USA

om.2012.053 - Artist: Margaret Suchland - USA -  Title: Lexicon n.4 - Date: 2011 - Size: 6x4
Materials used: vintage early 20th c. dictionary pages digitally printed with early alphabet characters and other ephemera
www.margaretsuchland.com

[144] Berni Stephanus - Switzerland

OM.2012.136 - Berni Stephanus - Switzerland - Alopecia Totalis -(#253) - July 6, 2011 - collage with magazine images

[143] Miguel Jimenez - El Taller de Zenon - Spain

OM.2012.052 - Miguel Jimenez - El Taller de Zenon - Spain - 'Untitled' - 11,5x21 cm. - 2012 - Mixed technique.

Statement

I have arrived at the medium of collage through painting. It has been a natural step.
In my paintings I introduced collage using diverse materials that contributed to the texture of the work.

Poesia Visual y Arte Postal en El Taller de Zenón
http://www.eltallerdezenon.com

Exposición de pinturas de Miguel Jimenez en
http://www.eltallerdezenon.com/pinturas/paint.htm

[142] Judith Monroe - USA

OM.2012.051 - Judith Monroe - USA - Mixed Media Collage

ARTIST STATEMENT:
The twenty-first century artist has been freed from the restraints of a single medium, allowing us to explore the world in a truly creative way. Each is able to come to their artwork from an individual point and add or subtract media that suits the expression and viewpoint desired. Even as the move to electronic media removes tactile elements and separates humans physically, there is a growing attraction to the multi-layered, highly textured artworks that bring us back together and anchor the human experience in a physical space. My own works begin with black and white photographs adhered onto two or three dimensional substrates; I add found objects, collage elements and layers of color and texture, like the cumulative memories and moments of life that project onto a single moment of time.

[140 & 141] Connie Jean - USA

 OM.2012.048 - Connie Jean - USA - Yoo-Hoo Jesus - 2011
     Mixed Media: Soda can, tin can lid, paint, wood.
     6 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches.

 OM.2012.048 - Connie Jean - USA - Seagram's 7 Jesus - 2011
     Collage: Paper, cardboard. - 4 by 6 inches.

Statement:
"Doing collage and mixed media art makes you look for potential
 in every object. It is both a blessing and a curse."

website: mailusartus.blogspot.com

[139] - Emilija Damjanovic- Noris - Macedonia

OM.2012.050 - Emilija Damjanovic- Noris - Macedonia - A Hat - 2011
dimensions:diameter 30 cm - medium: collage on vinyl music record
note: This artwork is fashion design,in collage technique

webpage: http://www.behance.net/emilija_noris

ARTIST STATEMENT

What I do is fashion design, in collage technique.
I started to work on collage in 1997 when I made few reproductions of Gustav Klimt's artworks.
Later in 2002 I studied basics of fashion design.

When I finished 1 year course, I didn't continue in production but rather started to develop my fashion
ideas in other direction.

Apart from sketching and getting a product alive, I explore and experiment with fashion as art, and
collage gives me unlimited possibilities to express myself. In the paper, I find everything I need to
present my ideas visually (forms, colors, patterns..) and the most important of all – I'm having fun with
it.

It’s like a play; a game of puzzle sometimes. The starting point is a woman’s face and further I design
the artwork with paper cuttings. It’s like tailoring.Every piece has its story.

Recently, I have started using vinyl music records as a base for my artwork. I’m also a musician and
very much inspired by old records as sound carriers and the glow of the vinyl; therefore, symbolically I
feel like doing fashion design with paper cuttings on "the sound" or "the music" itself.

Thru this whole creative process I came up with artworks which can be hung on a wall, or become
alive as clothing,headwear, accessories,etc.

[138] Jasmine Adelshoff - USA

 

OM.2011.206 - Jasmine Adelshoff - USA - collage - 7 x 5.5 inches

[136 & 137] Anthony Zinonos - United Kingdom

OM.2011.20 and OM.2011.21 - Anthony Zinonos -  United Kingdom - 'Fire on the Green' and 'Sloth' collage on paper 

When it comes to economy of means Anthony Zinonos has cut collage making down to the bone with these minimalist collages.

http://anthonyzinonos.com

[134 & 135] Braeden Dillenbeck - USA

OM.2011.133 - Braeden Dillenbeck - USA-  "SPACE AGE": Magazine Images, Craftbook Clippings, and Ink.

OM.2011.132 - Braeden Dillenbeck - USA- "The Excess of His Delights": Magazine Images, Wax Paper, Cardstock, and Ink. "The Prolific would cease to be Prolific unless the devourer as a sea received the excess of his delights." -William Blake

http://crafedo-esquire.deviantart.com/

Artist Statement:
As a contemporary form of making art, collage is interesting to me for several different reasons. In addition to the more traditional aesthetic aspects of a piece (color, composition, etc.), collage functions largely through the juxtaposition of imagery. This seems particularly well suited to modern day society because of the widespread ability to share information, use multi-media, and gather materials from pre-existing sources. The juxtaposition of imagery has profound potential for generating meaning. When one places seemingly unrelated images in a shared context, the images interact and resonate with each other to create a layered experience for the viewer. I liken this process to a dream. When we sleep our minds become busy sorting information which we see in the form of seemingly random images, experiences, and feelings mingling in a shared environment. It is only upon waking that we realize that individual aspects of the dream were odd or out of place. In that moment of the dream everything belongs together (regardless of time or space) and works to create something vivid and beautiful that is much larger than the sum of its parts. This is what I love about the form of collage: its potential to make meaning out of the surreal cohesion of unrelated energies.

[133] Jurgen O. Olbrich - Germany

Om.2011.106 - Jurgen O. Olbrich - Germany - vintage photo booklet with black collage elements

[132] Berni Stephanus - Switzerland

OM.2012.134 - Berni Stephanus - Switzerland - Spew (#100) - April 10, 2011 - collage with magazine images

[131] Berni Stephanus - Switzerland

Berni Stephanus - Switzerland - 2004 - Despair (#593) - collage with magazine images 

http://stephanus.com

[130] Jon Nelson - USA

[130]  OM.2011.222 - Jon Nelson - USA - collage

Gift of the artist

Jon Nelson is a collage/assemblage artist who hosted the nationally syndicated radio program Some Assembly Required from 1999-2011. Jon also donated a complete collection of CDs of his shows to the museum. listen here while you check out this blog:  http://www.blog.some-assembly-required.net/
You can see some of Jon's  visual work at: http://www.mnartists.org/jonathan_nelson
and for information about his sound collage work, go to: http://www.escape-mechanism.com/

Some Assembly Required features work by a variety of artists working with bits and pieces of their media environments, giving something back to the cultural landscape from which they so enthusiastically appropriate.

The genre is still young, despite examples dating as far back as 1961, when James Tenney constructed a tape collage borrowing heavily from cut-up fragments of a recording by Elvis Presley. Both provocative and surreal, this style continues to evolve and to challenge.

Since its inception in 1999, host Jon Nelson produced over thirty artist features, interviewing everyone from John Oswald and The Evolution Control Committee, to Christian Marclay and DJ Spooky - providing a variety of unique perspectives on the nature of this daring and creative style of expression.

Each Interview Episode is freely available to download HERE. Also check out the SAR Q&A, featuring profiles on over 175 of the sound collage artists played each week on Some Assembly Required.

[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:

1. screw
2. screwing device
3. money extractor

Origin: Fluxhibition #4 - 2010

[129] Susanne Thing Skene - Canada

om.2012.027 - Susanne Thing Skene  - Canada - Japanese Koi Garden - collage

om.2012.028 - Susanne Thing Skene  - Canada - Inner Demons - collage

[127] Fluxus Laboratories - International

Fluxus Laboratories International - The Wonders of Plastic Surgery #001 - 2010 - Digital photo montage using vintage high school yearbook photographs

[126] Cecil Touchon - USA

Cecil Touchon - USA - The Patron - collage with vintage magazine papers

[125] Marianne Lettieri USA

Marianne Lettieri - USA - 2008 - "Shelf Life -  Homage to Hannalore Baron." assemblage

Origin: 2008 exhibition Under the Influence at the Longview Art Museum 

My mixed media constructions quietly protest a world so fast-paced and confrontational that the enchantment of everyday life is often missed. I work with the articulate and economical imagery of cultural detritus to create art that inspires thoughts about grace, gratitude, and introspection.

The materials that make their way into my assemblages are rich in history and pathos: architectural elements, vintage documents, animal cages, and remnants of domestic arts, toys, and fashion. I will often select an object because of its obvious metaphor or symbol, incorporating its voice as a form of shorthand for social commentary about who we are and how we live.