{"id":11635,"date":"2023-06-24T15:44:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T19:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=11635"},"modified":"2023-06-24T15:44:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T19:44:45","slug":"dee-denise-calzavara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/dee-denise-calzavara","title":{"rendered":"Dee (Denise) Calzavara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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22″x18″; cut paper images glued to painted canvas; 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dee (Denise) Calzavara
Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dancing in my mind for years was the memory of the wall I collaged, with colourful magazine clippings, in my teenage bedroom. After art training and years of creating all manner of art I decided to indulge in
my love of analog collage again. I flip through magazines randomly collecting images that call to me, \u201cHey, cut me out! You\u2019ll need me someday!\u201d With stacks and stacks of images from magazines, calendars, old books, cards, etc. I piece these Ready-mades into new images that sprout from my imagination. The mixing and matching of images evolves in an unplanned and playful way, (it\u2019s like the art \u201cHappenings\u201d in the 1960-70s) you don\u2019t know what will emerge. I play with replacing the different pieces for hours, sometimes days, until the new creation is satisfying. This is my favourite way to make collage art. At other times the artworks are created thanks to a theme I\u2019m studying. Design or colour will often direct my work (like my \u201cSacred Spiral\u201d series).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collage is an expressive art. It can be dreamlike and surreal. It lends itself to helping one express their unconscious emotions. Gluing the images to canvases, or sturdy matte board, can be a gooey and messy process which, like the scissor work, satisfies my need to be kinetically involved. The creative process of collage art absorbs me in its clutches for hours on end\u2026or until my fingers get so stuck together with glue that I have to stop!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dee (a.k.a. Denise) worked in the field of nursing for several years. When the flowers in that field stopped blooming that\u2019s when the greener pastures of ART opened up for her. During her years at the Ontario College of Art and Design her new passion was well fertilized. At first her art career focused on the motto \u201cwhen life goes to pieces\u2026creativity as healing\u201d. In 2011 she had a 15-year retrospective art show by that name which included over 100 art creations.

There was a variety of different art making mediums in that exhibit. The majority of the works involved putting pieces together. She claimed to have a \u201cpalette full of pieces\u201d, not just paint! This brought her original love of Collage Art back into the forefront of her artistically creative soul, leading her to a solo art show titled: \u201cSacred Spirals and Teardrops as Prisms\u201d. This is an art show of over 60 of her collaged artworks, on canvases, scheduled to be exhibited for the first time at Gibson Gallery<\/a> from 7 September-1 October 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Red Sacred Spiral<\/em>
20″x16″; ripped magazine paper glued to canvas; 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Red Teardrop as Prism<\/em>
24″x32″; cut paper images glued to painted canvas; 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Blue Teardrop as Prism<\/em>
30″x24″; cut paper images glued to painted canvas; 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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i Collage<\/em>
14″x11″; cut magazine images glued to black matte board; 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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