Rescued Images

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FROM KOLAJ #20

Felicia Dadak’s Artist Portfolio

Felicia Dadak speaks about the fragments she uses in her collages as rescued images. As a child, she would watch her mother paint and save her drawings in a drawer. The stories she tells taps themes of love and loss, memory and nostalgia. This sentimental romantic heroism is tempered with an astute sense of composition and the ability to build series of work that interrogate an idea with visual and conceptual rigor.

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Equally minimal is her series “Nat Geo”, where Dadak combines scenes from National Geographic with geometric shapes. In doing this, she liberates the images from their documentarian, narrative contexts and employs them in new stories.

This artist portfolio appears in KOLAJ #20. To see the entire portfolio, SUBSCRIBE to Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue.

Self-taught artist Felicia Dadak began making collages in 2007 on the backs of playing cards using bits of old paper and glue. Dadak grew up in Western Massachusetts and now lives with her husband and two dogs in Truckee, California. See more of her work on her Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory page and at www.feliciadadak.com.

Image (top):
Family Portrait
by Felicia Dadak
2.5″x3.5″
2015

Image (centre):
Primrose
by Felicia Dadak