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Nancy Goodman Lawrence
Los Angeles, California

My work is constantly in a state of change–morphing from one idea to the next. I enjoy exploring the possibilities and am motivated by a sense of creating some kind of order out of the complexity of life. Chibok Girls (image detail) is an unusual piece for me, created as part of a collaborative mural on human rights for the Jerusalem Biennale 2017. In the past, I have used lots of maps in my work and am now beginning to incorporate other materials. MORE

COLLAGE ON VIEW

5 Collagistes

At Brock'n'Roll in La Louvière, Belgium through 3 May 2018. Brock’n’Roll is a studio, gallery and boutique. The exhibition features the work of five collagists from Europe and the Americas. Georges Vercheval describes the work as "Pictures that stick to life." He writes of the artists, "They tell us in the form of a fable, but believe it, too: it’s true that the jack of hearts has an ax in his back, that the birds are silent and the forest is crying. That fires rage and that the stairway leads nowhere if not to this privileged and elevated place that the collagist knows, and the poet too, from where one can observe the world. For better or for worse…" MORE

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Cecil Touchon

At Kelsey Michaels Fine Art in Laguna Beach, California through 26 February 2018. Touchon is known for his association with Post-Dogmatism and the Fluxus movement. He is often referred to as a visual poet, hinting at both the usage of language and text in his work, and how the placement of such language offers a visual poetry to the viewer. "My work is a challenge to the difference between representationalism and abstraction because language in general has always been used in modern times as a representational medium." In addition to Touchon's recognizable collage work, the show also includes a work that took Touchon 12 years to complete: his large-scale homage to Kazimir Malevich's 1912-1913 painting The Knife Grinder (The Glittering Edge). MORE

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Group Collage Show

At Redux in Portland, Oregon through 31 March 2018. Karen Wippich's "expressionist acrylic paintings show her graphic influence with figures inhabiting and blending into abstract environments, their bodies breaking into geometric shapes, incised by lines." Kolaj Magazine contributor Kevin Sampsell's is a long-time Portland author, bookseller, and small press publisher who paused his writing career to learn about and pursue collage making in 2014. Kevin Cascell‘s collages "are comprised of cutouts from discarded books and magazines, without digital manipulation, and all frames are thrifted or found." Jackie Treiber's work is radically feminine, concerned with the present and historical states of women’s power as exemplified through healing, myth and magic making. And Greg Hanson builds assemblages and mixed media collages from vintage photos, old toys and other pieces of antique ephemera that he collects and finds. MORE

COLLAGE BOOKS

Signature Scheurer

By Michael Scheurer includes a foreword by Michael Lowe and essay by New York-based writer and curator Jan Riley, published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Aronoff Center for the Arts in Ohio. In a career spanning more than forty years, Scheurer has developed a unique aesthetic of sumptuous and richly worked collages, which complements his reputation as a connoisseur of ancient, antique, and modern decorative art objects. His signature motifs of fanciful pen and ink drawings, bulbous nosed silhouettes, and perky girl/boy portraits from the 1970s and 80s have evolved into visually sophisticated collage series constructed from the disparate source material he finds in his inveterate antiquing research. 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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