David Ratcliff's process is always appropriative: he gathers visuals (often drawings or texts) from a wide variety of media, constructs large hand - made stencils and then spray -
paints the collaged images onto canvases.
The Los Angeles - based artist has produced these works by appropriating and stenciling visuals (predominantly drawings) from a wide variety of media — zines, newspapers, diagrams, comic strips, historical documents — and spray -
painting the collaged images onto canvases.
Not exact matches
Unlike most other
collage artists that incorporate other's
images, I have given myself the personal challenge of using only my own photographs,
paintings, and drawings in my works.
The last two rooms are hung with Johnson's magnificent
collage paintings presenting found
images of Africa, including tribal masks, lush jungles, majestic palms, and idyllic beaches.
When «Radical Presence» opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, last year, it also included five works from Piper's 1975 series I am the Locus,
collaged and
painted Polaroids on which
images of Piper as the Mythic Being are inserted into scenes of a crowded street.
In the 1980s David Salle's achingly cold
paintings of layered and
collaged images helped define postmodern sensibilities.
Born in Nigeria, Crosby's
collage paintings explore domestic spaces and social relationships, presenting rarely depicted
images of everyday, contemporary life in Africa.
Like David Hockney and his flat, large - scale
collages of Polaroid prints, Wood takes multi-angle photographs of his subjects and then cuts and pastes the
images together to produce his fractured
paintings.
The exhibition will include
collage, drawing,
painting, digital
images, and constructions in a variety of materials.
Thomas Dane Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by Venezuelan - born artist Arturo Herrera, whose practice combines found
images and objects with drawing,
collage, sculpture and
paint.
The
Image as Burden brings together a staggering number of works: nearly two hundred
paintings, drawings, and
collages.
Whether appropriated by some contemporary figurative painters or aligned with some sort of new figuration, where the painters «find everything to be a matter of
images» (to quote Barry Schwabsky from the online catalogue for «A New Subjectivity»), Abstraction clearly and demonstratively engages with the problems of
painting (and
collage and sculpture) despite the surprising conservatism of Kerry James Marshall.
The perimeter displays Thomas's
collages and photographs from the past 15 years, mostly
images, like her
paintings, of ultra-feminized black women lounging in sumptuous, textile - strewn interiors.
Included are a selection of
paintings, the series of etchings Recurrent Goya, based on Goya's Caprichos, as well as examples of the Chagoya's Illegal Alien codexes, derived from Pre-Columbian books and featuring
painted, drawn, and
collaged images.
Like a sieve moving through every moment of every day, Barbara Campbell Thomas's
paintings siphon the onslaught of words, text and
images, sounds, textures and physical stuff into piecemeal orderings of stacked lines, quasi-geometric forms and blippy brush marks — all in concert with
collaged pieces of thrifted fabric.
Multimedia artist Sara Magenheimer's Open Mic Solo blends the photographic frame within the structure of a
painting, creating a
collage - like circuit of
images within an
image.
For a 2014 exhibition at the Albertina, the late, precocious Austrian artist Gunter Damisch shipped a stack of precut wood panels from Vienna to Paris, leaving the Woolworth studio team to compose the final
images as they pleased in a mix of
collage, monotype, woodcut, drawing and
painting.
In this exhibition Corbett vs. Dempsey presents a group of brand new
paintings, including
images of Groucho Marx and South Park Kenny, as well as a startling new batch of
painting collages, a new facet of her oeuvre.
Highlights of the exhibition include Stark's pre-YouTube Cat Videos (1999 — 2002); the playful, provocative and psychedelic «chorus girl»
collages from the series A Torment of Follies (2008); My Best Thing (2011), a video that debuted at the 2011 Venice Biennale edited from Stark's cyber exchanges with two online paramours; the celebrated video installation Bobby Jesus's Alma Mater b / w Reading the Book of David and / or Paying Attention Is Free (2013), set to a West Coast gangsta rap soundtrack and featuring
images that range from Renaissance
paintings, to family snapshots, to portraits of hip hop legends.
but the
paintings and
collage - like
images themselves, compositionally reminiscent of Rauschenberg's «combines,» are ultimately the most compelling.
The scope of Michael Meads» work is large, and wandering from room to room in «Bent Not Broken» at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, his range of mediums and forms is awe - inspiring: acrylic
paintings, charcoal drawings, papier - mâché masks, screen - printed
images overlaid on gessoed wood panels, vivid sculptural triptychs, a small bound book of
collages.
In this present exhibition, Ventura
collages and hand -
paints over every
image.
Working across various media — including drawing,
painting,
collage, printmaking, sculpture, architecture and industrial design — Frezza and Chiao craft
images, objects and spaces that question our experience of the lived environment.
I KILLED KENNY also debuts a series of
paint - splattered
collages, in which historic
images of Abraham Lincoln are overlaid with portraits of iconic Hollywood celebrities, contemporary artists, and legendary American boxers — Robert DeNiro in «Raging Bull,» Gena Rowlands in «Gloria,» Christopher Wool in his studio, and publicity stills of Muhammad Ali.
Among them are Frank Bowling's dynamic
painting «Tambernic Tumbles,» which resembles a distorted digital
image but was
painted in 1975, well before most people would have known what that was; Hans Arp's newly restored 1954 bronze «Leaf on Crystal,» which the de Menils kept for years at their home; and a 1991
collage by Larry Bell, which Davis found in a box.
In Small Archive of
Images (1986/1996 -1999), viewers confront a wooden chest of drawers that may be opened to reveal small
paintings, photographs, and
collages.
Her
collages are constructed using fragments from fashion and travel magazines, pornography, African art books, automotive schematics, and
images drawn from science fiction as well as hand - drawn or
painted elements which create a variety of new formations of the body.
The finished works are delicate, highly detailed
paintings on paper incorporating
images and texts rendered in ink, pencil, watercolor, rubber - stamping and
collage.
Tomaselli's new works are richly layered
collage and
painted surfaces incorporating plant life as well as
images from anatomical illustrations, magazines and nature guides.
Page 357: Wangechi Mutu creates Afro - futuristic
paintings and
collages of women using
images cut from Vogue, National Georgraphic and even porn magazines.
The result is at once a strikingly resonant contemporary and yet evanescent
image, that through the
collage of canvas also engages with the history of distorted form and the constructive brushstrokes of post-impressionist
painting.
Employing a range of media — oil
paint, watercolor, gouache,
collage, graphite — Tom Knechtel creates spectacular
images.
Her artwork, combining drawing,
collage, printmaking and
paint, frequently contains feminist overtones drawn from myth, literature and personal history; the juxtaposition of
images suggesting both memories and re-imaginings.
How do the works on paper relate to the large
paintings because you have just described in a way a whole set of
collages in your head of
images that come together.
Created as a synthesis of
painting, drawing and
collage, the works fuse formal concerns with the representational
image, which can be seen in Phillips» inclusion of photographs of exterior spaces and architectural elements.
Executed with layers of
paint, glitter, resin, pointillist dots and
collaged images of genitalia cut from porn magazines, an elephant dung breast protrudes from large - scale canvas which is perched on two elephant dung balls embellished with map pins that spell out «virgin» and «mary.»
The museum describes her captivating
collage paintings thus: «In her vibrant, textured works on paper, Akunyili Crosby employs
collage and acetone - transferred
images in her depictions of intimacy and domestic life.
Her self - taught process consisted of blowing up
images from magazines and newspapers,
collaging them onto canvas, and then
painting over them in bright, saturated colors.
His gallery installations are cabinets of curiosities featuring intricate wall
paintings of beautiful women, indigenous statues and deities,
collages crafted from vintage magazines penned and inked by the artist, human - like insect heads encased in vitrines, dolls that have been transformed into gang members, and
images of pin - up girls with full tattoo sleeves.
When ill health prevented Henri Matisse from
painting he turned his hand to cut - outs, using
collage to create whole
images or compositions.
A new exhibition of the artist's work features more than 50
collages,
paintings and hand -
painted serigraphs considering girlhood, self -
image and the dysfunctional legacy of colorism.
Other highlights of the exhibition include her Neverland series from 2002, where she photographed objects, either alone or in groups, on fields of color; Figure Drawings from 1988 - 2008, featuring an installation of 40 framed
images of the human figure; Objects of Desire from 1983 - 1989, where she made
collages of found photographs and rephotographed them against bright background of red, blue, green, yellow, and black; Renaissance
Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures and objects from disparate Renaissance paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text
Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures and objects from disparate Renaissance
paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text
paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from
collaging and re-photographing found
images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text redacted.
Early on, she worked in
collage as well as
paint: The
Image As Burden includes several examples, perhaps the most significant of which is Love Versus Death (1980), in which two «clue - strips» consisting of various photographs and newspaper clippings (Steve Biko is among them, and so, too, is Peggy Guggenheim) suggest ways of reading the work's central panel of drawings.
The focal point of this series is the use of a girl's dress
image which explores the use of
collage,
painting, drawing and found objects in a fun design context.
The panel of judges ruled that 25 of Prince's 30 «Canal Zone»
collage -
paintings fairly sourced
images from Cariou's book Yes, Rasta according to the legal doctrine of «fair use,» which allows artists to employ other creators» imagery as long as they «transform» it into something substantively new.
In the large construction «Bound», a wide yellow line (both as
painted mark and as
collaged or free hanging dyed and hand
painted muslin) traverses the entire field, stitching together disparate materials and creating a possible path for the eye, which never arrives at a static
image.
Guided by their formal qualities, notably a lattice of beiges, mauves, and vermillion, Melee
collages, crops, rotates, and mounts the
images, often attaching this territory to segments of track lighting or sculpted and
painted fiberglass curtains.
The
paintings, works on paper, mixed - media
collages, and photographs feature a number of purchases, including Audrey Flack's large oil and acrylic canvas, World War II (Vanitas); two elaborate mixed - media
collages by Mickalene Thomas; textile artist Sonya Clark's Unraveling; photographs of performance artist Cassils» Becoming an
Image; photographs related to Leah Modigliani's Morris Gallery exhibition The City in her Desolation; and works on paper by Fernando Orellana.
Image: Molly Zuckerman - Hartung, Adulterate, 2013, acrylic, bleach, enamel, latex, and paper
collage on cut, draped, and sewn cloth and canvas; oil and spray
paint on two leaning canvases; found objects, 95 x 167 x 12 inches (hanging)
Her tiny
collage drawings on film and paper are graphically rendered and the complex
images echo structures of dark and futuristic places akin to those in her large
paintings.