“We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the capacity. We fear that we truly can steer our ship, plant our flag, reach our Promised Land. We fear this because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know. We pass through a membrane. We become monsters and monstrous.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle
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As long as I am breathing,” Françoise Gilot once said, “I am painting.” It is no surprise then that the artist, who died earlier this month at the age of 101, has left behind a remarkable body of work: paintings, collages, ceramics, drawings and lithographs as well as poetry and prose – the fruits of a brilliant, 80-year career - Shunned, boycotted, exiled: has France treated Françoise Gilot worse than Picasso did? - via The Guardian
Skillfully using Photoshop to create digital collages that blend disparate scenes together, Justin Peters shows us entirely new realities. Horizons cleanly fade into foregrounds, human elements seamlessly become natural ones - Skillful Blending of Worlds - via Moss and Fog
Artists in conversation with boxers; playwrights next to composers; royalty juxtaposed with protestors; pop stars talking to Tudors; abolitionists facing suffragettes; pop jostling with expressionism; collage communicating with painting - Invasion of the cool-girl ceiling-smashers: why I love the revamped National Portrait Gallery - via The Guardian
Jean Baudrillard coined the term “hyperreality” to describe a condition of representation indistinguishable from reality—when images look so real they must be fake, in other words. The household objects in Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s new and recent paintings, also an inaugural Zwirner show, are rendered so hyper-realistically they appear as images projected or superimposed onto the surface of the composition. Conversely, faces tend to recede, presenting themselves as the cut-outs of vintage photographs. Like Douglas, she’s an artist conceptually invested in collage, layering imagery to flatten perspective and deploying archival photographs to merge past and present. Shown side by side, these two artists read as inversions of each other: Summoning an art historical nostalgia, Douglas makes photographs of paintings, while Akunyili Crosby’s paintings and collages of photographs, in large part depictions of her native Nigeria, evince the strikingly personal nostalgia of homesickness - To See or Not to See: Zwirner’s LA Debut and the Art World’s Fast Fashion Era - via ARTnews
In his new body of work 49/23, artist Gregory Eddi Jones combines a vintage 1949 edition of Popular Photography magazine with AI-generated images. Through his collage process, he questions the evolving nature of photography and its impact on our perception of the world - 49/23 — Considering Technology, AI and Photography - via lensculture
PCC: 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
FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY - OLD & NEW
ELYSE’ JOKINEN
Over the past decade, my life and travels have led me to several places around the world. New locations, people, and moments. In many ways, creating collage brings me the much-needed feeling of home.
I begin each piece with a bit of spontaneity, just like my early journey. Then, I deconstruct the found material to depict the twists, turns, ups, and downs. Like wandering, some pieces are precisely chosen while others end up in my hand by total happenstance. Finally, I begin to combine the fragments into memories, stories, and desires. The paste holds these down in a way that I’m unable to and makes each collage feel whole.
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ESTELLE LICHTENBERGER-FROEHLING
Creativity has always been an important part in my life. Abstract watercolor is what I‘ve been starting with. Being a paper lover and collecting vintage and contemporary paper shreds of all kind, it was only a matter of time for collaging joining in. So, what I essentially do is combining both, watercolor and collage, in one picture. But I also love creating analoge collages only. I‘m based in Luxembourg, Europe. My artworks can be found on Etsy and on my website. Thank you for stopping by and your kind support.
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STACEE LYN
I have learned that creating art is quite the healing tool. I take any current feelings and highlight it in an art piece with total focus and thought. I also make art as an energy release, composing art by grasping time, color, emotion, the five senses and presenting on paper. The result is a segment of my endless mind.
Due to tremendous loss, I have been inspired to create collage memorials in remembrance of loved ones who have departed. I think about what that loved one was like, what they did that made them happy, their impact on me. My own memories of them get put into a collage. I think about what I want to shine light on, what qualities made them unforgettable. I do make collages that are not death related. These collages usually have lots of bright colors and images, or have a nature theme.
My art is based on life and death, death being one thing most people are afraid of the most. Mortality. The end. I want to put a light to the inevitable, lean in and appreciate what we have now before death comes. My memories are just memories, but a remembrance collage can last forever.
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ANNIE MACK
I describe my work as Art Photography. Most of my productions are deconstruction and recontextualizing, as in abstraction and electronic collaging. I possess a few technical skills necessary for photojournalism and landscape shots, but I seek more personal expression and creativity rather than discovery and precise recording of a scene or moment. I enjoy found art, which serves as a springboard for imaginative composition and richer interpretation of the literal world of photo-making. I like to start with a recognizable image or collection, or a familiar idiom or axiom, and recreate and rearrange around it, with unexpected elements that freshen or discombobulate the central theme. My lenses (cameras and computers) are visionary tools and I embrace and employ them as such.
All the works enclosed are electronic collage, rather than tactile cut-and-pastes. Some contain original photographs of mine.
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It's very exciting to see my work here, thank you so much for putting this together and sharing!