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Meet the Presenters

Allan Bealy
Brooklyn, New York

Stephen Schaub
Pawlet, Vermont

Guylaine Couture
Montreal, Quebec

Chris Maddox
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jana Zimmer
Santa Barbara, California

Andrea Burgay
Brooklyn, New York

Katana Lippart
Brunswick, Maryland

Karah Lain
San Diego, California

Joshua Field
Denver, Colorado

BOOK AS A METHOD OF DISTRIBUTION

Allan Bealy
Brooklyn, New York

Allan Bealy will speak about publishing as a method of distribution and his experience of it. Bealy is a former Montreal artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He was a member of Vehicule Art, the Montreal cooperative art and performance space in the ‘70s and has had solo shows in Montreal, New York and Sweden, as well as being represented in numerous group shows. Bealy published the pocket arts journal DaVinci in Montreal and Benzene, an arts magazine, after moving to New York in the ‘80s. He has spent the last 30 years as a graphic designer and advertising art director and associate creative director, from which he has recently retired. His art practice now focuses on collage and mixed media as well as continuing to publish, occasionally, under the Benzene Editions banner. In 2019, his book of collages, Le Rêve, was published by Redfoxpress in Ireland. WEBSITE

BOOK AS CALLING CARD

Stephen Schaub
Pawlet, Vermont

Stephen Schaub will talk about the artist book as calling card, as a way of promoting (and funding) a larger, bolder project. Over the past thirty years Schaub has produced over 15 collections of his artworks, working with high end printers such as the Stinehour Press in Lunenberg, Vermont and the Salto Press in Belgium. Most recently he has begun collaborating with his wife, noted author Eve O. Schaub: working together as EveNSteve, they create artworks that combine handwritten stories and texts with in-camera collage on film. These works are presented at a monumental scale, as well as miniaturized in accordion book form; such works range from four feet in length to a new proposed artwork that will be over seventy feet. Schaub’s works have been described as “art dreaming about itself.” In them, rather than experiencing a literal place or a linear story, we encounter something akin to the fragmentation of an emotional memory—or the illogic of a dream. Depicting scenes of unresolved narrative, these images seem to have been subjected to the vagaries of perception and the passage of time. In his Vermont studio, he combines monumentality of scale with light-sensitive techniques and the presentation of works on paper, to create each unique work of art. WEBSITE

BOOK AS SCULPTURE

Guylaine Couture
Montreal, Quebec

Guylaine Couture will talk about the artistic form of her artist book. This choice allows her to create works in which the content and structure merge to make the message more powerful. She will present her artist book, Le territoire des mauvaises herbes, as an art object with poetry. The artist reflects at length on the viewer's reaction to the book and develops her work so that emotions are evoked at first sight. For Couture, the "reader" must live an experience. Couture is a Montreal-based book artist and graphic designer, who shares her discoveries on her blog about creativity. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Australia and is in institutional collections. WEBSITE

BOOK AS AN EXTENSION OF PRACTICE

Chris Maddox
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Chris Maddox will talk about bookmaking as an extension of practice. His presentation will focus on "America, Alien Nation", an ongoing group of altered books and self-published books and collage work from the "Palimpsests" project he began in 2016. Maddox holds an MA and MFA in print media from the University of Wisconsin and had participated in a series of funded artist residencies in the US and Europe. Maddox’s book and print works have been acquired by collections at the Living National Treasure Museum, Tokyo; the Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence; the Boston Athenaeum; the New York Public Library; Stanford University; Yale University; Harvard Map Library; Brown University; the Kohler Art Library; Ringling School of Art; Tufts University; Temple University; and numerous other rare book and special collections. WEBSITE

COLLAGE AS ILLUSTRATION

Jana Zimmer
Santa Barbara, California

Jana Zimmer will talk about book making and the relationship of text to image. Zimmer, a Czech emigré who grew up in Montreal, began making art, with no formal training, at about the age of 50. Her inspirations for collage were fellow Czech Jirí Kolár and Robert Rauschenberg. Zimmer has shown her work in the Czech Republic and Germany. She will talk about her books, Collaboration, made with textile artist Sharon Marcus, in which each artist altered the other's digital collage; Navigating the California Coastal Act, which she calls the first "coffee table law book" and is illustrated with collages created specifically as commentary on the politics of coastal protection; and Untitled, a memoir in process, in which she explores, through interactions of text and digital collage, the lessons of Jiri Kolar, who said, “The world attacks us directly, tears us apart through the experience of the most incredible events, and assembles and reassembles us again. Collage is the most appropriate medium to illustrate this reality”. WEBSITE

BOOK AS CURATORIAL PROJECT

Andrea Burgay
Brooklyn, New York

Andrea Burgay will speak about publishing as a curatorial project. Burgay is the founder of Cut Me Up, a participatory collage magazine that mimics musical call and response in visual form. Each issue presents a call—a curated selection of original collage images that will become raw material for reader--artists to respond by cutting, reconfiguring, and transforming them into new artworks. The newly created responses form the content of the next issue. Guest curators for each issue ask artists to engage with diverse contemporary perspectives on the unique possibilities of collage as an art form. Burgay is a visual artist whose work combines collage, sculpture and found materials to elevate the overlooked and the mundane via transformative physical processes. Adding and removing layers of handmade and found materials presents a physical manifestation of the passage of time, destruction and decay. WEBSITE

BOOK AS ART OBJECT

Katana Lippart
Brunswick, Maryland

Katana Lippart will talk about building a narrative and how various aspects of book making (selecting the paper, choosing the binding, etc) contribute to that narrative. She show her artist book, Grown, her handmade accordion fold book of digital collages that was printed on a risograph. Katana Lippart holds a BFA from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She has participated in a number of juried shows, artist book and zine fairs, and is currently involved in The Collage Garden, an international collage collective. WEBSITE

PROCESS AND CONCEPTUAL CONTENT

Karah Lain
San Diego, California

Karah Lain will talk about her project, "Untitled-#1-4", a series of handmade books, and how she developed her process and executed the conceptual content. Karah Lain holds an MFA from Oregon College of Art and Craft, and has shown her collage works throughout the U.S. She has also served as an artist-in-residence at Portland Garment Factory and as a fellow at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Visual Art at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California. WEBSITE

BOOK AS ZINE/SKETCHBOOK

Joshua Field
Denver, Colorado

Joshua Field will talk about his sketchbook practice and how he makes reproductions of them for distribution. He created the visual journal August 1959 in 2017 and will present it. Using a combination of collage, painting, and drawing, the artist explores a mysterious confluence of events in August of 1959. Field holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His work has been featured in numerous publications including ArtSlant, DailyCandy, DesignYouTrust, and Saatchi Online’s 100 Curators, 100 Days and is held in both private and public collections. He has participated in residencies at the Contemporary Artists Center and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). Field is Assistant Professor of Foundations and Fine Arts at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design in Denver, Colorado. WEBSITE

MODERATOR

Ric Kasini Kadour
Montreal, Quebec & New Orleans, Louisiana

Ric Kasini Kadour is a writer, artist, publisher, and cultural worker. He publishes Kolaj Magazine, a printed, internationally-focused magazine about contemporary, fine art collage; Art Map Burlington, a guide to Burlington’s contemporary art scene; and Vermont Art Guide, a printed magazine that explores contemporary art from a regionalist perspective. He has written for a number of galleries and his writing has appeared in Hyperallergic, Vermont Magazine, Seven Days, Seattle Weekly, Art New England (where he was the former Vermont editor) and many others. Kadour is the author of several 'zines, including Art Is Food (2006), How to Price Your Artwork (2005), Everything That Is Wrong With You & How To Fix It (2015), I Am Calling Today…(2016), and My Pet Rock: A Tragedy & Love Story (2018). Kadour maintains an active art practice and his photography, collage, and sculpture have been exhibited throughout North America and is in private collections in Canada, France, the United States and the United Kingdom. He has produced a number of exhibits as a gallerist and curator. His community organizing efforts have resulted in a number of large scale art events in North America and beyond. Kadour holds a BA in Comparative Religious Studies from the University of Vermont. WEBSITE

About Kolaj Institute

The mission of Kolaj Institute is to support artists, curators, and writers who seek to study, document, & disseminate ideas that deepen our understanding of collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century movement. We operate a number of initiatives meant to bring together community, investigate critical issues, and raise collage’s standing in the art world.

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About Kolaj Magazine

Kolaj Magazine is a quarterly, printed magazine about contemporary collage. We are interested in how collage is made, how collage is exhibited, and how collage is collected. We are interested in the role collage plays in contemporary visual culture. Kolaj is a full colour, internationally-oriented art magazine. Kolaj is published in Montreal, Quebec by Maison Kasini.

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