THE WEEKENDER 03 | 2024
Collage News & Inspiration
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”
― Andy Warhol
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NEWS
Our first Cut It Out collage workshop of the year - in collaboration with Julia Volonts from Art Therapy Lab - will take place this Sunday, January 21st. This is an online workshop and as always free to attend. To sign up, please contact Julia directly. All information below…
Zoom Artist Talk with Andrea Lewicki: Andrea Lewicki’s creativity was shaped by the ways her neighbors found meaning and purpose through handcraft while living in a sparsely-populated desert. Envisioned as an oasis full of promise under dazzling sunshine, the community materialized as a small cluster of decaying pre-fab houses with few amenities in sight. In an artist talk over Zoom, Andrea will talk about translating the neighborhood of her childhood into a 3-panel window installation through collage for the Seattle Restored program. She will also share background information about one of the toughest and wildest areas of the American Southwest. The talk will be recorded and made available through her website - Saturday, January 20 - 2:00pm US Pacific - more info here
The National Gallery of Art has received a major gift of works by Joseph Cornell, an artist who became an icon of 20th-century culture despite living in relative isolation while alive. Consisting of twenty of the artist’s signature box constructions and seven collages, the donation comes from art collectors Robert and Aimee Lehrman. Select works from the gift will go on view at the Washington, D.C., museum on January 18. - The National Gallery of Art Adds 20 Joseph Cornell Boxes to Its Collection - via Observer
Walter Van Beirendonck‘s Fall/Winter 2024 was a collection that played on the cadavre exquis. Through surrealist motifs, the collection comes in forms of clashing shapes, cuts and patterns to create a collage of consequences. - Walter Van Beirendonck FW24 Combines Fine Tailoring With Surrealism - via Hypebeast
Back in those days, photography was considered more of a craft than an artform. So, it was very unusual for Maynard to experiment in the ways that she did. This included taking photographs of so many children every year and then meticulously pasting every little face onto a glass plate in her collages. - Neurodivergent director Elizabeth Lazebnik shows how B.C. surrealist photographer Hannah Maynard saw the world in Be Still - via Pancouver
The surreal, psychedelic collages by artist Denis Sheckler give us a window into the weird and otherworldly. Faces are replaced by planets and galaxies, eyes rain down waves and surfers, and an overall sense of trippiness takes over. - Psychedelic Surrealism by Denis Sheckler - via Moss and Fog
In 1963, he attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he studied sculpture, painting, and drawing. In his early years as an artist, he experimented widely. His output included drawing, painting, collage, and mixed media assemblage. His early influences included Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, and the Surrealists. He also pulled inspiration from religious imagery, Tantra, Tarot cards, and pornographic magazines. - Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe? - via The Collector
The title of a new group show at the Phoenix in Waterbury is slightly misleading: "Warp & Weft" seems to suggest a display of fiber arts. In fact, it is that and much more. Along with woven works, there are paintings, prints, drawings and mixed-media collages. The seven artists take different approaches with a variety of materials, yet they have something ineffable in common. Let's call it savvy. - In “Warp & Weft” at the Phoenix, Seven Artists Reveal Process, Pattern and Playfulness - via Seven Days
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A selection of challenge submissions from last week is up on our website and can be seen here, the image prompt for next week is available to download here
Our 2024 Workbook is out and available for sale on our website. Our weekly creative challenge remains free and open to everyone and everything, digital or analog artists, French or not. The workbook is an optional add-on for those who prefer to work with paper and don’t want to print our images themselves. Like every year, the book is designed so that you can either take it apart or create your collages in the book itself. Week numbers and image sources are on the back of each image, so even if your books falls apart at one point, you will always know what’s what!
And last but not least, have a look at and/or submit to our ‘other’ Instagram account Paris Collage Collective Unlimited where we showcase collages that have absolutely nothing to do with our weekly creative challenge.
If you have any news about exhibitions, publications or events you want so share with the community, please send an email with all relevant information and at least one link to a website or venue to: hello@pariscollagecollective.com
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