Art MoCo: Collage Archives

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"Bed Head" by Claire Cimbora
Posted by sabine7

Collage | Mar 11, 2009

Claire Cimbora is the illustrator behind Schmooks, a series of delightful digital collages à la big-eyed girls. The playful characters, human-animal hybrids, are set in imaginative scenarios against bright backgrounds. Cimbora uses a variety of textures and patterns to add dimension to her work and this is just the right touch to avoid it becoming cloyingly sweet. There is vast array of characters, some more intricate than others, at Cimbora's Etsy site.

Artist: Claire Verrell
+ etsy.com

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"Fat Skinny Guy"
Posted by sabine7

Collage | Oct 2, 2008

An exhibition of collage work by Athens-based Paul Zografakis opens next week at the little tree gallery in San Francisco. Entitled TBD (To Be Determined), this body of work is a mix of found materials combined in ways that jolt our visual expectations. Zografakis uses change as a crucial element, and the resulting landscapes hint at the surreal. The handmade, special effects feel to the work only adds to the feeling of nervous confusion.

Artist: Paul Zografakis
+ littletreegallery.com

"Millpond"
Posted by sabine7

Collage | Sep 1, 2008

Laura Breitman's work looks like painting or photography when seen from a distance, but this artist uses thousands of tiny pieces of fabric and paper to create collages often based on photos taken by her husband. Breitman's attention to detail, nuance and lighting makes her trompe l'oeil work very convincing. The details of the photo blend into colour and shape, much the way they would on the journey from eye to brain and back. Sometimes the artist will colour fabric herself to get just the right shade, and uses a grid to work on one square of her project at a time.

Artist: Laura Breitman
+ laurabreitman.net

"Beecharmer"
Posted by sabine7

Collage | Aug 14, 2008

Emily Niland’s mixed-media work is a collage of ideas and images. Freedom and captivity are two of the themes that run through this artist’s work, not only physical but emotional and intellectual as well. Niland looks at media and mimicry, and movement contrasts with sitting still in stagnation. We cannot help but wonder when we will wake up from the American Dream.

Artist: Emily Niland
+ emilyniland.mosaicglobe.com

Chad Kouri Collage
Posted by sabine7

Collage | Jun 12, 2008

Chad Kouri is an artist who scours the alleys of Chicago in search of found objects for his collages. While the style of Kouri’s work will vary on the basis on the different cut-outs, it is safe to say that there is a mix of old and new, with a leaning towards vintage or retro photos, patterns and images. Paper of all kinds, clouds and waves, deer and birds, adults and children from different eras – all this and more in Kouri’s work.

Artist: Chad Kouri
+ longliveanalog.com

"Wild West Working Women"
Posted by sabine7

Collage | Jun 4, 2008

Bonnie Marin is a Winnipeg-based artist whose collages star joyfully wild women on a variety of backgrounds that range from the suburban kitchen to the vintage living room to Flanders of days gone by. In recent work featured during MADE in the WEST, Marin’s pin-up girls from the 30s, 40s and 50s are juxtaposed with a variety of unusual animals and set against backdrops where they are sure to get attention. Our favorite is Wild West Working Women because we wonder what will happen when the working woman in the courtyard realizes these hussies have brought their baboon to town, but our money is on dish water everywhere!

Artist: Bonnie Marin
+ gibsongallery.com
+ madeinthewest.ca

"Untitled Museum"
Posted by sabine7

Collage | Jan 16, 2008

Canadian-born and Barcelona-based, Michael Swaney creates surrealistic collages that are delicate works with much fine detail. Swaney’s scenes combine architectural forms as backdrops for figures that play out a narrative left to the viewer to decipher. There is recurring museum motif; the idea of artefacts is fairly strong in Swaney’s work and the mixture of elements in every composition is not dissimilar to an exhibition of the various components within every story.

Artist: Mike Swaney
+ michaelswaney.com

"Red Onions"
Posted by sabine7

Collage | Oct 19, 2007

Sarah Greene Reed’s digital collages are so well represented by the piece above, Red Onions, as it immediately brings to mind the layers this artist uses. Reed is a collector of miscellany and it is from these collections of Lucite purses, tiaras, plastic food and a whole lot more that she makes images to be used in the collage work. For a long time, Reed felt guilty about creating aesthetically pleasing work, but has now come to terms with this aspect of her art and throws herself into creating beauty.

Artist: Sarah Greene Reid
+ dbermangallery.com

"Untitled"
Posted by sabine7

Collage | Sep 28, 2007

Claudio Parentela has been an underground artist for a long time, connected with a slew of ‘zines and websites. These examples of his collage work display an energy that is evident in most of his work, which ranges from drawings to watercolours to comics. These lively personalities are an exuberant mix of emotions, intellect and gender, and boy, do they ever look as though they are up to something! Hands, facial features and hair all conspire to reel us in and hook us. This Parentela trio is dangerous.

Artist: Claudio Parentela
+ claudioparentela.net

"Golden Egg"
Posted by sabine7

Collage | Feb 15, 2007

Amy Thompson’s work of little girls with bird heads begs two questions: why does she do it, and why do I like it? But, because this is art, neither needs a response. Thompson’s collages take in old photos and fortune cookie mottoes amongst other bits of ephemera, but it is her simply drawn Bird Girls that are magical. However, for those inclined towards something strictly animal, there is also her Smut series to consider.

Artist: Amy Thompson
+ amyalice.com

"Charlotte's Playground"
Posted by sabine7

Collage | Nov 14, 2006

One of Amy Rice’s favorite artists is collage specialist Ida Pearle, based in NYC. Pearle sketches out scenes that are then played out by bits of patterned and coloured paper. The specialty papers used by Pearle include Coloraid (a silk-screened art paper), origami papers, wallpaper and wrapping paper. Pearle’s vignettes are mostly seasonal and theme-based, but the artist started out by creating scenes that sprung from what was going on in the lives of her friends.

Artist: Ida Pearle
+ idapearle.com