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heather wilcoxon

collage and oil on canvas, 40″ x 41″

“I see the world as a dangerous place. However, I am seasoned enough to see the absurdity of it all. My cartoon characters represent both the comedy and tragedy of humanity. In their childlike iconography, they embody a sense of innocent playfulness, yet in their monstrous rendering a dark humor is reflected. This dichotomy creates an interesting tension. In my larger paintings, I invite the viewer in with nice colors and pretty surfaces. But if you look closer, the bite is there.”

untitled, 1955

robert rauschenberg

combine painting, 15.5″ x 20.75″

“Robert Rauschenberg has been one step ahead of and influential to all the major post war art movements since Abstract Expressionism. Often categorized as a pop artist, he remains independent of any affiliation. His lifelong commitment to collaboration with performers, printmakers, engineers, writers, artists, and artisans from around the world is the manifestation of his expansive artistic philosophy. His artistic vision is a manifestation of the changing world and it’s ideology as he moves through life. His “Combines” of the early ‘50’s seem to have developed in response to the inundation of disparate imagery we are subject to in the 21st Century.”

rest in peace.

scarlet 1

lushbella

photograph of live collage : 5×7 archival print on Hahnemuhle Matte paper

“I remember the day I covered this matchbook with a tiny bit of vintage silk damask I had left over. I was trying to pass time and forget that Gareth wouldn’t be home for another week.”

house 2

wanda svendsen

mixed media collages inspired by the Norwegian landscape

restoration

heather l. murphy

collage on wood : 7.5″ x 7″

lovers

inez storer

oil on canvas, collage, 2003 : 40″ x 36″

” Most of the time I enter my studio with an agenda, but then something happens, and I let the painting take me on its own journey. To be surprised while painting is the real experience, the reason to keep on doing the work. I have objects, bits and pieces, images cut from a myriad of sources and whatever I can collect that inform my work, or sometimes I actually attach materials of some kind to the surface of the painting. It is a way of going shopping every time I am in the studio. And artists love to shop in whatever form that activity can take.    We are all like blotters. I am a blotter, absorbing all the different aspects of what I experience. Painting is evolutionary, and a grand experience.”

09 : book cover collage

qasim sabti

“In April, 2003, the bombings took a heavy toll on Baghdad. Many parts of the city were reduced to rubble. Worse, chaos broke out in the streets, driving the city into utter hell. … I brought a pile of the damaged covers back to my studio and immediately started to work. With passionate fingers, I started to transform them. First, I rubbed their surfaces to remove much of their previous literary appearance. Next, I cut swatches from the covers, punched holes, re-applied loose delicate strings and lacey webbings, and even painted on them. … These works of art are newly-derived from sacred bones.”