{"id":524,"date":"2021-09-01T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=524"},"modified":"2021-09-10T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T17:58:00","slug":"zach-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/zach-collins","title":{"rendered":"Zach Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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01zc18<\/em>
4″x3″; paper; 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Zach Collins<\/strong>
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

My work is about memories–tragic, humorous, and everything in-between. I investigate the unexpected associations and experiment in combining these contrasting materials with collage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My current intention is to produce work that looks beyond the expressed content in the original mass communications materials used. For me, collage is liberating because it is unbound by rules. At its core, collage is a defiant act; ripping, tearing, cutting, sanding and gluing found materials goes against most formal artistic traditions. I identify with the \u201cthey- said-not-to-do-it, so-I-did-it\u201d mentality at its foundation. Similar to the universality of mass communications, the freedom from expected outcomes and punk rock \u201cdo-it-yourself\u201d nature of collage makes it accessible to a wider collective. The act of choosing collage alone embodies the resistance to social customs and speaks to the rebellious aspects of my personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By working this way, I am flipping the context (literal to formal) and stripping the historicity; giving a new presentation, producing non-objective or abstract collages that depend completely on the elements of composition, colour, shape, process and surface to provide interest for the viewer. I simultaneously dispel the intended context of the image while creating a new one as soon as I cut it from the source. I then reinvent it, remix it along with accompanying pieces, into a new conversation\u2014one that expands the concept using recognizable, yet fractured components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am attracted to many of the formal characteristics of mass communication: the graphic typefaces, along with elements of fading, uneven colour blends, halftone patterns, off-registration and the tactile nature of the paper. Before working in analog collage, I felt berated by mass communication. I was distracted by the imagery and passed by all of the detailed elements that now fuel my collages. Co-opting this imagery largely designed as commercial persuasion for use in my own open-ended abstract artistic message is a creative act of defiance that activates viewers rather than rendering them passive consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

I was born in Grinnell, Iowa. I received a BA from Upper Iowa University, a MA from the University of Iowa, and MFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Currently I call Albuquerque, New Mexico home. I am pursuing several art-related projects. My work, which is shown extensively in the U.S. and internationally, is about memories–tragic, humorous, and everything in between. I experiment with ironic and often unrecognizable imagery. My work is an investigation of the unexpected associations that are created by combining fragmented materials through collage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[click to email<\/a>]
www.zachcollinsart.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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70zc17<\/em>
4″x3″; paper; 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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13zc19<\/em>
6″x4.5″; paper; 2019 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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38zc16<\/em>
4″x3″; paper; 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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09zc15<\/em>
6″x4″; paper; 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Archive<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

ON KOLAJMAGAZINE.COM <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artist Archive Resident: Zach Collins<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Book: Recycled Trophies: Collage Collaboration of Zach Collins & Aaron Beebe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review of Recycled Trophies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Signing: Zach Collins \u2013 Recycled Trophies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Call to Artists: Doug & Laurie Kanyer Art Collection Purchase Award at Kolaj Fest New Orleans<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Revolutionary Paths: Critical Issues in Collage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Revolutionary Paths Catalog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collage Communities<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collage as Passport<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advice for Collaborating<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How I Became a Collaborator<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is Collage at Haphazard<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mister Koppa at 1900 Park<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artist Book Review: Monster Trust<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catalogue Review: CUTPASTE 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paper Cuts at Redux Studios & Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Z2A: A Collage Alphabet<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Art of Collage at Frank Juarez<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collage\/Imagine at Flow Art Space<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cut\/Paste 2 at F+ Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recipher: Coding with Collage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xperiments with Glue, Volume 1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReturn to Splendour\u201d at Marylebone Gardens, London<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPaper or Plastic?\u201d at Speakeasy Art Gallery, Boonton, New Jersey<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You Can\u2019t Follow Just One: Cory W. Peeke tells us about collage on Tumblr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issue Four Editorial: One Year Later<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

IN THE PRINT EDITION <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kolaj #7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kolaj #12<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kolaj #16<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kolaj #17<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kolaj #22<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BOOKS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recycled Trophies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Flying Glue Book Project<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CUTPASTE 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We Said Hello and Shook Hands<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monster Trust<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Z2A: A Collage Alphabet<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Revolutionary Paths: Critical Issues in Collage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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