Archive for the ‘collage’ Category
scavenger hunt
Connecticut-based artist Amy Eisenfeld Genser layers, rolls, and cuts paper to make these beautiful paper collages over her painted surfaces. It is evident that patterns in nature influence Genser, considering for example the beehive layout of the paper elements and the organic qualities of the compositions. I love the flow of the paper and color schemes within […]
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Tags: abstract, art, beehive, collage, color, design, nature, organic, paper, pattern
shipping containers
Seattle-based artist Mary Iverson deals with themes of globalization in relation to the environment. Using found images of natural landscapes as the backdrop for her work, she fills the picture plane with grid lines and images of shipping containers.
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Tags: appropriation, color, containers, landscape, line, national parks, ships, snow
iconatomy
Swedish artist George Chamoun made these digital collages by overlapping images of classic icons with popular icons of today. By no means was this a quick process! He did not alter the images at all, so finding the right portraits with a compatible angle and expression required a lot of sifting. I like the organic […]
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Tags: collage, design, digital, overlapping, Sweden
filthy rautten
Kathryn Macnaughton is a Toronto-based artist. Her process is quirky, witty even, as she appropriates slightly pornographic imagery in drawing/collage work with various objects, shapes, and soft colors. The result is both impressive and funny in an almost-absurd kind of way. I got a kick out of her work, anyway. Several of these images were […]
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Tags: appropriation, collage, pornography, women
folded landscapes
Abigail Reynolds cuts and folds vintage bookplates to create her series of images, Universal Now. I enjoy the visual play of the geometric sections of color mixed with the 3-d elements of the folds.
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Tags: appropriation, architecture, collage, vintage
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