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At 80 years old, Pindell is the oldest of the 52 artists represented in “Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage.” They range from well-known figures to early and mid-career artists, including several with Houston ties, counting Tay Butler, Jamal Cyrus, Rick Lowe, and Lovie Olivia among them. “Multiplicity,” which was first organized by the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, before heading to the MFAH, is the first major museum exhibition devoted to exploring Black American identity through the medium of collage. - New MFAH exhibit explores Black American identity through modern collages - via Chron
Constructing her pieces, she says, is akin to putting together a large puzzle. “There’s a push and pull between the background collage and the foreground painting,” she explains. “I want the collage, even though it’s in the background, to have weight. I’ll work on a piece at the studio, then bring it home and live with it for a while. If something doesn’t work, it’s no big deal. I just collage over it. I can get more daring with this approach.” - The Hidden Depths of Carrie Penley’s Sporting Art - via Garden & Gun
Collage has been a significant artform since the invention of paste and scissors, which was in … (“I don’t yet know the answer to that question,” ChatGPT tells me). Well, we do know that snipping random pieces out of all kinds of paper has been popular since the early 19th century, and the process entered the art world at the dawn of 20th-century modern art. - The Daily Heller: I’m Obsessed With Lorenzo Petrantoni’s Collage - via Print
Astley says, ‘I am very interested in the underlying nature of reality and the way that people perceive the world. To me, collage is very similar to the way that people actually see things. We take in fragments of information through our eyes and senses, and our brain fills in the gaps to make the world make sense and appear seamless. - New York artist Christopher Astley showcases an alternative natural world - via Wallpaper
Regardless, just as both of those neighborhoods have come a long way from their incarnations as magnets for rowdy bohemians, Sherman, who just celebrated her seventieth birthday, is far removed from her days as an upstart artist crafting pastiches of imperilled ingénues in noirish faux films. In some ways, the new show is about the inexorable pull of time, the lamentable fact of aging. The characters in it—which, of course, are all Sherman in disguise—are women in their senescence, a state Sherman exaggerates to cartoonish effect, using pancaked makeup and Cubistic digital-collage techniques that can make the faces of her imaginary subjects puffy, pinched, and simply strange. In one particularly on-the-nose work, Sherman has blacked up her nostrils and painted her eyes so that she resembles a cross between a weeping Tammy Faye Bakker and a grimacing skull. - Cindy Sherman’s Grotesque Digital Creations - via The New Yorker
It is an example of the art experimentation Larkin has always enjoyed doing. Lately, she has been creating collage paintings that use the dried leftover paint from the artist pallets she uses when painting. It creates a textured surface on the work. Larkin has even painted on used tea bag fabric using the collage technique. - Renville artist Dona Larkin showcases garden paintings at Redwood Falls Public Library - via Brainerd Dispatch
At age 12, Kahlil Robert Irving started learning how to make pottery. Not quite 20 years on, he been celebrated especially for his ceramics that resemble collages of found objects, artworks that have been shown in New York at the Museum of Modern Art and purchased for museums, including the Whitney Museum of Modern Art. - Art by Kahlil Robert Irving gets a special platform at Mildred Lane Kemper Museum - vis Saint Louis Post Dispatch
The waitlist for the Art Therapy Lab International Summer Residency is now open. All information here
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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!
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