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COLLAGE ARTIST TRADING CARD SPOTLIGHT

Fresh, Spontaneous Energy

Working mainly with paint and various site-specific found materials, Sara Willadsen’s work explores concepts of abstract spaces and structures guided by her surroundings. She writes, "I make pictures that satisfy my curiosity in aesthetics and found materials. Combining these articles with reappropriations of my own work allows me to employ past patterns and marks as prompts for new structures and environments." Collage Artist Trading Cards Pack 7 includes her collage, Sunset. MORE

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Get with the Program

At Roman Fine Art in East Hampton, New York through 28 January 2018. Brooklyn Collage Collective member Lizzie Gill is part of this annual holiday group show which features works by nine artists. Gill's collage explores themes of retro Americana in a contemporary context. Through a variety of mediums she illustrates a time warp, composed of everyday life, human agency and "post feminist" contemporary society. MORE

FROM KOLAJ #21

Torn & Cut & Blurred

Texas artist Shawn Miller's My Messy Desk appears on the cover of Kolaj #21. For the first time in the magazine’s history, the cover does not feature an actual collage. My Messy Desk is a photograph of Miller’s workspace. Micaela Marini Higgs profiles the artist, aka Waste of Paste, in the magazine. MORE

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Painting as Language

Matthew Monk at Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier, Vermont through 20 January 2018. Monk is a founding faculty member with the College’s MFA in Graphic Design program. He often works with discarded or found materials, which are often decayed, worn, eroded, weathered, murky, humble, and imperfect. He seeks to "uncover meaning in the meaningless and value in the worthless." MORE

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY

Dilcia Giron
San Francisco, California

All of my original collages are made by the traditional method of cutting and pasting images from fashion and editorial magazines. My intention is to explore new ways of reality, by providing a glimpse into the subconscious mind. To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the “Summer of Love”, I’ve been working on a new series of paper collages called “Acid Love”. I want to evoke the psychedelic experience, times of spiritual awakenings, in which there was love and only love, without borders, inhibitions or conditions. MORE

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KOLAJ #21

In Kolaj #21, Editor Ric Kasini Kadour reflects on The Golden Age of Collage. A Kenyan collagist elevates African identity to celestial heights. Etty Yaniv reports on four artists making collage in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. A German collage zine helps us define Collage Play. A Yemeni-American artist uses collage to tell her story. We tell the story of a 95-year-old artist from Vienna who is making collage from the Guatemalan jungle. And we show Artist Portfolios from Portugal, The United States, the United Kingdom, and The Netherlands. My Messy Desk by Shawn Miller is on the cover. A profile of him appears in the magazine.

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Kolaj Magazine is a quarterly, printed magazine about contemporary collage. We are interested in how collage is made, how collage is exhibited, and how collage is collected. We are interested in the role collage plays in contemporary visual culture. Kolaj is a full colour, internationally-oriented art magazine. Kolaj is published in Montreal, Quebec by Maison Kasini. Visit Kolaj Magazine online.

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