Collage Art

Artists Describing Their Art:

Michelle Daly - I am interested in capturing moments often felt more strongly then seen. This idea has taken many forms in painting, drawing, making, and living. Paintings here include a series of works that strive to articulate a tenuous balance between process and finished artwork. I approach each painting as a dialogue with no preconceived intention. I use a combination of found and invented shapes that reference both geometry and the natural world. I build the compositions in layers, reworking the surface, adding and deleting information. This process continues until I find the moment when the work is resolved, but just barely. I am searching for the place with each painting when the process is still evident, yet there are moments that are unconventionally beautiful. This idea has lead me to begin a series of smaller works that seek to explore the more narrative quality of abstract painting. I view each work as a fragment or short story, building together into something that is perhaps more. I am also exploring ideas of noticing space in a series of drawings known as "the space between" These drawings take negative space as their subject matter, and look for deeper interest in the way such ...

Shmuela Padnos - ARE YA READY TA GET THE BIG LEG BLUES FROM THE GAS MAN AS THE SPECIAL RIDER MAKES YOU MISSISSIPPI MOAN? ARE YA GONNA RIDE THE NEW HAMHOUND CRAVES A BLACK SNAKE MOAN WITH THE LITTLE LEG OUTSIDE WOMAN BLUES? WELL TAKE A LITTLE WALK WITH ME AS i TELL YOU ABOUT THAT CHERRY WOMAN ARTIST SHMUEL A PADNOS. AS THE DEVIL SENT THE RAIN TA N'AWLINS SHMUEL A WAS CONCEIVED DURING MARTI GRAS FUN OF LE BON TON ROULET. 9 MONTHS LATER IN THE FOOT HILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA, LAND OF RATTLE SNAKIN DADDY& STEP IT UP & GO, SHMUEL A WAS BORN. ALTHOUGH EXPOSED TO THE EAST COAST PICKIN OF BLIND BOOY FULLER, BUDDY MOSS& JOSH WHITE BY HER GRANDPARENTS, SHMUELA WAS ALWAYS FOUND WITH A PAINTBRUSH IN HER HAND INSTEAD OF A GUITAR. SHE FOUND THE MOVING OF THE BRUSH CREATED ITS OWN FUNKY SOUND&RHYTHM....

Ralph Michael Brekan - Art gives a unique glimpse into the past and a vision of the future. Theme's of popular culture, consumerisim and politics fill our waken world and I in turn create artwork that defines the world around me. Reoccuring elements of mass production and ego identity reside throughout my work, both in the subject matter itself and in the media I've chosen to execute the vision. Contemprary art methods and contemporary themes and subject matter yeild great contemporary art. My art work subscribes to the most common virtue of past masters: experimentation....

Laynee Torode - Art is subjective. Where one may see beauty and meaning, another may simply see paint on canvas. All of my works are to be interpreted by the viewer. It does not matter what the piece "means" to me. I will not tell you what to think or feel about my work. I will leave that up to you....

Jacqueline Weegels - My whole life I have created art somehow, as do most people one way or another. I grew up with a father who enjoyed painting large theater back drops and making larger than life papermache float creations. Although, I felt inspired by this, it somehow intimidated me and made me want to work small. Now, having raised two children, and influenced and been influenced by them and THEIR art, my work has become ever more eclectic and varied. I am ready for a new phase in my art as, like everyone else, continue to conquer new challenges in life, stay healthy and seek balance. ...

Aleix Gordo - Viaje de ida y vuelta Este viaje empezo hace mas de diez anos. La practica de artes marciales y el estudio de la lengua japonesa hicieron acercar el Japon, mas alla de la aficion y el deporte, a mi estudio de pintura cuando, en un momento dado, tome la decision de querer ser pintor. Esa etapa llega a su cuspide en forma de exposicion La Ida En el transcurso de esos primeros anos, y ya no como aficionado a la cultura japonesa, sino como participe creador de ese actualmente conocido lenguaje visual, intente ser fiel a una determinada interpretacion de esos fascinantes clasicos de la pintura japonesa (y mas que pintura, gravado en madera, englobado en lo que ellos llaman el Ukiyoe) de principios del siglo XIX como Hiroshige, Utamaro, Hokusai, Harunobu, entre otros A traves de un lenguaje colorista y una tematica mas bien costumbrista empece realizando una serie de oleos de gran formato. Serie "Amor y Guerra" - los cuadros explican en cuatro imagenes una historia de amor truncada por la guerra, en la que el desenlace queda a la imaginacio...

Thomas Van Horn - I believe in an ongoing creation. All new moments and the events therein, even the thoughts, are evidence of the creation happening. When I work artistically, or any other way, I participate in that creation. I co-create with the mechanism of creation with what I like to call my heart mind hands. Every stroke of the brush is absolutely new to the universe. It's never happened just like that before. Even if I could make the exact same mark twice, which I can't, the surrounding circumstances and environment would be different for each mark. I don't try to plan a work too much because every work seems to take on its own life and guides me more than me guiding it. I jokingly call my genre accidentalism as so many works seem to result from happy accidents. In the balance of intuition and craft, I have leaned towards letting it go rather than making it come. ...

Elena Mary Siff - In the collages and assemblages I interpret the mystery, the humor and the threat of my dreams. By collecting and juxaposing bits of disparate material, I create my own order. The souvenirs of my travels have been a constant source of inspiration. I am fascinated with very small imagery and a great variety of materials and textures. All of this work is a form of narration, as I consider myself primarily a storyteller. "Everything can be used, but of course one doesn't know it at the time. How does one know what a certain object will tell another/" Joseph Cornell That unpredictable dialogue is the basis of my method and my faith. Elena Mary Siff ...