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The Phantoms of Liberty
Mark Wagner, "Liberty" (detail) (via pavelzoubok.com)Mark Wagner is a Brooklyn-based artist and a co-founder of the Booklyn Artists Alliance. His newest exhibition, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death,...
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A Week of Art Stories Mixel-ed
Look, I'm an artiste!I’ve got the Mixel bug. Since I logged onto the image creating site last Friday, I’ve been enjoying the zany energy of this iPad-based collage system and all that it offers.Yes,...
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Cloaque.org, An Online Collaborative Collage
Screen shot from “Cloaque.org.”After I had submitted my Tumblr as Art post, I came across another truly exceptional Tumblr-based artwork, Cloaque.org, by Carlos Sáez and Claudia Mate with contributing...
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Collaging Street Views
Julien Levesque, “Street Views Patchwork” 2009.Every so often I come across a really exciting piece, a work that uses a medium in an innovative and exciting way, that conceptually leaves us thinking...
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Paper Orchard: GIFs Through Collage
A common art lessons in grammar school is working with different magazines and newspaper and creating collages. Especially before the days of Photoshop and Illustrator, the act of literally cutting and...
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Rough Collages and Finished Works Cut from the Same Cloth
Left: Trevor Winkfield, “Duet” (2012), acrylic on linen, 37” x 31”; Right: Trevor Winkfield, “Duet” (2012), mixed media on paper, 37” x 31” (all images courtesy Morgan Lehman Gallery) This past summer,...
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Bern Porter: Never Finish
Bern Porter, original collage for “The Book of Do’s” (The Dog Ear Press, 1982), Colby College Special Collections (all images courtesy Colby College Special Collections unless otherwise noted) Sometime...
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Saintly Collages of Everyday People
Rodríguez Calero, “Saint Anthony” (1999), acrollage painting, 24 x 18 inches (all images courtesy the artist and El Museo del Barrio unless noted) In a five-part exhibition series, El Museo del Barrio...
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Rainbow Sherbert Collages of Calamity
Piotr Uklanski, “Untitled (Ivy Mike)” (2010) (all images courtesy the artist and Nahmad Contemporary) With a multicolored palette and a medium often associated with elementary school art classes, New...
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Sending Collage Down a Rabbit Hole
Tim Spelios, “Pink Hat” (2016), UV print on aluminum, 48 x 38 inches; “Preening” (2016), UV print on aluminum, 48 x 37 inches (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) If you’re...
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The Quintessentially Queer Art of Collage
Ingo Swann, “S & M School” (c. 1991–94), mixed media on board, 12 x 17 ½ in. gift of the Estate of Ingo Swann, collection of Leslie-Lohman Museum (image courtesy Leslie-Lohman Museum) Art...
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An Artist’s 50-Year Project to Alter and Deconstruct a Victorian Novel
Page from A Humument (© 2016 Thames & Hudson Ltd, London/Tom Phillips) When the artist Tom Phillips bought a dry Victorian novel called A Human Document by W. H. Mallock for threepence in 1966, he...
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A Book and Exhibition Reveal Josef Albers’s Rarely Seen Photocollages
Josef Albers, “Bullfight, San Sebastian” (1929), the Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired through the generosity of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, and Jon L. Stryker (all images © 2016 The Josef...
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Mocking Materialism with Collage
Installation view, David Shrobe: Homegrown at Thierry Goldberg Gallery (all installation views courtesy Thierry Goldberg Gallery and all installation photos by Dan Bradica) The first time I saw David...
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The Tactile Temptation of Ray Johnson’s Assemblages
Ray Johnson, “Untitled (Sophia Loren)” (1975-84), ink and collage on board, 12 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches (© the Estate of Ray Johnson, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery) What does one expect from a Ray Johnson...
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Paintings That Manage to Focus Our Divided Attentions
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, The Twain Shall Meet (2015), detail view (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) CINCINNATI — We are saturated by media messaging. It stands to...
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Portraits that Feel Like Chance Encounters and Hazy Recollections
Nathaniel Mary Quinn, “Bring Yo’ Big Teeth Ass Here!” (2017) (all images courtesy the artist and Rhona Hoffman gallery) MADISON, Wis. — Nathaniel Mary Quinn is one of the best portrait painters working...
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Composites of a Constantly Changing Female Identity
Zohra Opoku, “Within Us” (2018), (all images courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim Gallery) Artist Zohra Opoku seamlessly blends the mediums of textiles and photography to explore the complexities...
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Lorna Simpson’s Cut-Up Portraits Evoke the Complexity of Identity
Lorna Simpson , “Walk with me” (2020), collage on paper, 29 3/8 x 22 1/2 inches (all images © Lorna Simpson, courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth, photos by James Wang) Fragmentation is at the...
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Collage and Poetry as Social Document
“Draft CX: Primer” from The Collage Poems of Drafts by Rachel Blau DuPlessis (2011) The first book of poetry by Rachel Blau DuPlessis that I owned was Tabula Rosa (Potes and Poets Press, 1987). I had...
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