{"id":5640,"date":"2018-08-29T22:12:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T02:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=5640"},"modified":"2019-12-24T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T18:50:08","slug":"blake-kirpes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/blake-kirpes","title":{"rendered":"Blake Kirpes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAgnostic to the Bone<\/em>
\n15.4″x11″; digital; 2018<\/p>\n

Blake Kirpes
\nSeattle, Washington, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

I am inspired by images that are not of this time, and to me, that helps to disassociate the images from their origin. I like the idea that people cannot place where a particular image came from, or how much of the original image was used; this is why I try to avoid using images of famous actors, movie scenes, and models.<\/p>\n

I am also inspired by the unique colours, printing styles, and images produced during the “Golden Era of Advertising”. Long before I started creating art, I would save and collect vintage images (thousands of them), for no reason other than personal enjoyment. Once I saw artists using similar images to create their art, that is when an idea sparked, “Maybe I could do this?”<\/p>\n

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

Blake Kirpes is a collage artist with a focus on clean cuts and images of unknown people from the past; he lives in Seattle with his favourite person in the world. His work has been featured in Vice<\/em>, Amuse<\/em>, The Fashionable Lampoon<\/em>, and Nakid Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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

[click to email<\/a>]
\nINSTAGRAM<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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\nI’ve Been Replaying It All<\/em>
\n10.6″x9.6″; digital; 2018<\/p>\n

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\nTrue Affection<\/em>
\n15.7″x10″; digital; 2018<\/p>\n

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\nMoody Blue<\/em>
\n10″x10″; digital; 2018<\/p>\n

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\nSelf Love<\/em>
\n10″x6.6″; digital; 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seattle, Washington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8],"tags":[75],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/blake-kirpes-agnostic-to-the-bone.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BNTD-1sY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}