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Strange Glue
by Todd Bartel. This series of three books came out of the exhibition series, "Collage at 100" that took place at the Thompson Gallery at the Cambridge School of Weston in 2012. The books trace the transition from traditional to avant-garde approaches to papier collé (which includes Dangling Proposition by Barbara F. Kendrick, seen here); examine immaterial glues, such as emotional glue, associative glue and conceptual glue to name only a few; and look at artists whose practices push beyond collage’s flatness and embrace the physicality of architecture. MORE
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Through the Ages
Eva Lake at Augen Gallery in Portland, Oregon, USA through 4 August 2018
The artist writes, "In the past decade, my collages investigated identity and beauty in women. I remix various influences that illustrated the roles offered to me as a young woman, uniting 2 major streams of visual information: old popular magazines with my art history texts. I seek to re-align how women are portrayed, especially beautiful, glamorous women, having had my own personal investment with ‘beauty’ as a fashion worker and makeup artist, both a critic and avid participant. Yet that kind of persona doesn’t fit in with the serious stance of archaeology, theory and the story of art." MORE
FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Bárbara Scarambone
From São Paulo, Brazil, Scarambone is mostly inspired by the psychedelia aesthetic of the 1960s, colours and sounds, by Surrealism’s omnipotent/omnipresent dream, by the feminist power and Beat Generation’s true experimentalism. Scarambone creates handmade/analogue paper collages using the cut-and-paste technique, watercolour experiments and assemblage with torn up papers. In 2011, she decided she needed to try something different than words and found in collage a way to tell new stories, to show different feelings and realities. MORE
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To See Beyond
Firelei Báez at Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA through 19 August 2018. “There’s a fluidity of colour, of race, in the Caribbean…In America, you’re black.” Caribbean-born, Brooklyn-based artist Firelei Báez navigates a broad spectrum of colour, race and identity in her first Ohio exhibition. Born in the Dominican Republic to Dominican and Haitian parents, she immigrated to the United States in 1990 and was increasingly troubled by the restraints of her ethnicity wedged within confining American designations. To re-animate the beautiful complexity of being Afro-Latina and invite a greater congregation of cultural traditions, Báez creates intricate paintings, murals, sculpture and works on paper that brim with vibrant patterns and political agency." MORE
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Ladies of the Canyon
At Miller’s Thumb Gallery in Greensboro, Vermont, USA through 4 September 2018. The exhibition celebrates the feminine spirit and the spark that fueled the creative fire of master jeweler Marion Stegner (11 March 1936-13 January 2018). A radiant being and life-long advocate for the arts, Marion traveled to over 30 countries within her lifetime and saw design, colour, wonder and beauty in everything. She spent three years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Caracas, Venezuela and Quito, Ecuador where she started an artisans cooperative for the Warao Indians which continues to operate to this day. Collage by Vanessa Compton is featured in the exhibition. MORE
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KOLAJ #22
Kolaj #22 delivers a look at the wonderful world of contemporary collage: the people who make it and the people who love it. Belgian artist Strook‘s building-sized collage is on the cover of the issue. In her profile of the artist, Etty Yaniv writes, "The found wood pieces Strook fuses in his assemblages and the imagery he depicts in his collaged paintings manifest an act of revival: allocating fragmented elements of decay by making an artistic use for them and out of them." MORE
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