Contents
Kolaj Editor Benoit Depelteau interviews Boston-based Fred Free.
Jp King writes about the disfigurative collage of James Gallagher and Sophie Jodoin.
We learn that Liz Cohn is playing with a full deck in Portland, Oregon.
Billy Mavreas tells us about Felix Morel’s overwhelming visions.
Audrey Smith shows us her studio.
Portfolios from collage artists in Hartford, Connecticut; Chicago, Illinois; New York City; Madrid, Spain; & Johannesburg, South Africa
And much, much more
This month, BLAST Gallery in Teaneck, NJ, presents an exhibition of the work of artists Audrey Smith and Maggie Kleinpeter. Around 2007 Audrey Smith began creating collages in a Moleskine sketchbook as a creative exercise. A year into the project she began to take another serious look at collage and mixed media art, and it blossomed into a new creative focus. Her work has evolved from simple abstract constructions to a more narrative and surrealistic style. She combines vintage and antique medical and science illustration, photographs, and advertising with rich color, patterns, and type. Her work has been exhibited in...
Punk Surrealist artist Winston Smith, known for his sulfuric political collages, will be talking about surrealism, art and anarchy with V.Vale, Penelope Rosemont and Ron Sakolsky. This panel discussion is part of the 2012 Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, presented by Bound Together Bookstore in San Fransisco.
Plant Life of the Pacific World is a controversial exhibition of delicate flower and plant forms assembled from collaged photographs of nuclear explosions. In this new work Noronha Feio plays with the relationships between beauty, conflict, the foreign and the domestic.
Each work has been classified in accordance with American botanist E. D. Merrill’s book from which the exhibition takes its name. Originally published for military use in 1945, the book’s dry classification of flora is transformed by Noronha Feio into an explosive revelry of intense, amoebic forms. Plant Life of the Pacific World defuses one of the most recognisable...
April 6-June 17
New!™ is a Collage Show by Hannah Lansburgh
and Ben Peberdy. Do other art shows leave you feeling drained? Worn out? Well, now there's help. New!™ is here. An exciting, refreshing, dynamic show of collage.
Kolaj Magazine
Publisher
Maison Kasini
Editor
Benoit Depelteau
Contributors
Jp King
Aprile Elcich
Carl David Ruttan
Edvard Derkert
Ric Kasini Kadour
Kolaj is published in Montreal, Quebec
by Maison Kasini.
Kolaj Magazine is a quarterly printed magazine about contemporary collage.
We cut and paste critical reviews and essays with artist profiles, event highlights, and articles on techniques and materials.
We are interested in how collage is made, how collage is exhibited, and how collages is collected.
Copyright © 2012 Kolaj Magazine. All Rights Reserved.
Kolaj Magazine is a project of Maison Kasini.
