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COLLAGE ON VIEW
Resonator-Reanimator
Sri Prabha at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Boca Raton, Florida, USA through 22 October 2023. Sri Prabha created a site-specific multi-sensory installation that explores our connection to the natural world by commingling ideas from Vedic philosophy and science. Abstract patterned digital projections sweep the walls, covering paintings and sculptures to create constantly shifting organic forms. Paired with audio of monks chanting, the overall feel is that of preparing the mind for meditation. Within the mind frame of meditation, visitors will see references to both the smallest and greatest elements of our universe. MORE
COLLAGE ON VIEW
BOP! Adventures in Collage 2023
At The Dime/T.F. Projects in Chicago, Illinois, USA through 3 September 2023. “BOP! Adventures in Collage 2023” is a group exhibition of twenty-seven artists exploring the medium of collage by way of improvisation and intuition with intention. The show is the second iteration in a series of group shows envisioned and shepherded by Tony Fitzpatrick. “BOP!” is curated by Ray Borchers and Paloma Trecka, with the vision of presenting a disparate body of work that carries kinetic energy. MORE
COLLAGE BOOKS
The Healing Power of Collage
When abstract artist Patricia Schwimmer was presented with a life-altering diagnosis, she knew she would need to cultivate some coping strategies that would guide her through chemotherapy and the aftermath of the treatments. Calling upon her years of study as an expressive art therapist, painter, and workshop facilitator, she knew these strategies would have to involve artmaking. Over the ensuing year, she created over sixty collages, all of which are included in chronological order in this book. MORE
FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Collage as a Pathway
Troy, New York, USA. Tessia Bekelja's work is reflective of her preoccupation with increased screen time, a lack of physical connection to the outside world, abuse of power, and unfamiliar forces altering our bodies. She sources collage materials from found vintage photographs, medical guidebooks, her own photographs, history books, and paper that she hand-marbles. She uses a medical scalpel to cut the thinnest and smallest components, and constructs all of her work by hand in analog fashion. Tessia views collage as a pathway to strengthen one’s intuition and ability to give order to fragmented, seemingly unconnected images. MORE
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Can I Steal This
Deb Goldstein at Rice Polak Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA through 2 August 2023. “Can I steal this?” was the first thing collagist Deb Goldstein said to her cousin Paul Fitzpatrick-Nager when she looked at a stack of monotypes in his studio. They were beautiful and compelling in texture, line, landscape and composition and she knew she wanted to integrate them into her work. She and Paul are from the same tribe–through family, but also aesthetically. Their work blends together through what they see and the history of how they arrived as people and artists. As she started to work them in, more and more it was clear that Goldstein wanted to center her next show around this affinity: appropriation with permission. Each piece tells its own separate narrative through this process. MORE
FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Becoming something more than what it was
Ventura, California, USA. Michael Deragon tries to let the objects move, always becoming something more than what they were when found when chosen when placed down. He is always trying to find a way into both himself and the world around him. MORE
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COLLAGE IN MOTION
In Collaboration With Relatives
Louisville, Kentucky, USA. John Akre made movies from clay figures and paper cut-outs as a youth. He attempts to maintain the wonder and magic he felt making his first films in his animation making today. Through his portable Sloppy Films Animation Station, he explores how he can create animation in collaboration with community on location. He turns straw to gold and gold to fuzzy caterpillars. MORE
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Since we started Kolaj Magazine in 2011, people have been asking about t-shirts. Well, we finally made one. We are pleased to announce the "I Cut Therefore I Kolaj" T-shirt. We hope you like it and wear it with pride. MORE
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
PoetryXCollage Volume Four is sent automatically to members of the Silver Scissors & Golden Glue Societies. These special subscribers support the work of Kolaj Institute while receiving an item from Kolaj each month. Join before 15 August 2023 to receive your copy.
POETRY JOURNAL
PoetryXCollage
Volume Four
PoetryXCollage is a printed journal of artwork and writing which operates at the intersection of poetry and collage. We are interested in found poetry, blackout poetry, collage poems, haikus, centos, response collages, response poems, word scrambles, concrete poetry, scatter collage poems, and other poems and artwork that inhabit this world. In this issue: Jessa Dupuis, Cobble Hill, British Columbia, Canada | John Rigney, Buffalo, New York, USA | Kait O’Brien, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA | sadé powell, Staten Island, New York, USA | Yoomee Ko, New York, New York, USA | Collaborations by Kerrie More, Jessa Dupuis, Julie Byers, Carolina Martins, and Kait O’Brien. On the cover is a detail of Body, a collaboration by Julie Byers, Kerrie More, and Carolina Martins.
NEW PUBLICATION
Collage Saves the World
The artwork in Co llage Saves the World offers viewers an opportunity to reflect on how collage can speak to issues of racism, colorism, ableism, and sexism; the war in Ukraine; climate change and the importance of permaculture; beauty standards and women’s autonomy. The title is the second book from Kolaj Institute’s Politics in Collage Project, a series of residencies, publications, discussions, and exhibitions examining complex socio-political issues that contemporary society is contending with, in order to spark meaningful dialogue and inspire deeper engagement. MORE
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CURRENT ISSUE
Kolaj #37
Cats. Cats in space. Cats lounging around buildings. San Fran Cat Nap by Matt McCarthy is on the cover of Kolaj 37. This digital collagist from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA “transports viewers to a world that’s similar to our own, but also features massive felines stalking our landscapes” and has a lot of fun doing so.
Kolaj Magazine exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present. MORE
COLLAGE BOOK
Folklore of the Upper Nithsdale
Stories of Witches, Ghosts, & Other Spirits from Sanquhar, Scotland
Thirty-three collage artists illustrate stories of witches, ghosts, and other spirits from Sanquhar, Scotland. Using stories collected from William Wilson’s 1904 book, artists reimagine these tales in a 21st Century context and invite us to see folklore as the imagination of the past, understood in the present. The book includes an introduction by Ric Kasini Kadour. MORE
NEW PUBLICATION
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin & illustrated by contemporary collage artists
Set in New Orleans, Chopin’s 1899 novel, focuses on Edna Pontellier, an upper-class New Orleans woman, torn between expectations and desires. In the beginning of the novel Edna appears to live in a semi-conscious state, trapped in the mundane aspects of her life. As the story evolves, she encounters new people and experiences that create an awakening shift within her. The Awakening, touches on 19th century feminism, identity, and societal themes. MORE
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Our goal with every issue is that Kolaj Magazine is essential reading for anyone interested in the role of contemporary collage in art, culture, and society. Each issue of Kolaj Magazine is dedicated to reviewing and surveying contemporary collage with an international perspective. We are interested in collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century art movement.
