Collage Artist Trading Cards Pack 10 Is Now Available
Kasini House Artshop works with the Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory to produce curated packs of the Collage Artist Trading Cards. Each card is a full-color, 5.5” x 3.5” postcard with rounded corners. An example of an artist’s work is on the front of the card and the artist’s public contact information is on the back. Collage Artist Trading Cards come in packs of 15.
You can frame the cards you like as mini-prints; collect and curate your very own exhibition. You can also use the cards for discovering contemporary, fine art collage. We think they are a great way to be introduced to the artwork of collage artists.
Collage Artist Trading Card packs provide an interesting foray into artist practice.
With subject matter often rooted in the feminine, Miranda Millward (Oxford, United Kingdom) plays upon our memories, real and fictional, individual and collective, and the place where these memories overlap but also diverge. Nikki Jean Beck (Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia) sources her collage materials from second-hand/vintage books, magazines, and assorted paper-based ephemera; she has a particular penchant for French Vogue magazines which are filled with imagery that evokes the sensual and moody tones of fashion photography. Beth I. Robinson (Lorane, Oregon, USA) explores grief through found objects and cut edges. Often in her work fragments, ghosts of materials, soft pencil lines, or patterns can be seen. Influenced by psychogeography, folklore, dystopia and in film and literature, the collages of Tessia Bekelja (Troy, New York, USA) communicate the anxiety or rapture of being surrounded by unknown energies.
The elements of chance and serendipity inherent in collage mirror the sometimes unpredictable pathways of grief in the art of Ray Maseman (Chicago, Illinois, USA). At the same time, the playfulness of collage allows for being surprised by joy. Guided by the therapeutic benefits of a collage-making practice, Caitlin Moline (Portland, Oregon, USA) is as much about the process as the finished result. Moline finds the patterns of discovering and collecting primarily antique and vintage imagery and ephemera and then carefully hand-cutting, tearing, assembling and reassembling, and gluing these fragile materials incredibly soothing and emotionally beneficial. Jeremy Fraye (Los Angeles, California, USA) works mostly on twelve-inch square canvas to build entire rooms from design and furniture magazines then adds a cast of characters cut from various magazines to that room until a story presents itself. Helen Becker (Lamy, New Mexico, USA) approaches collage like an experiment where there is freedom in the moment to connect things that did not belong together a second ago. Silvana Soriano (Miami, Florida, USA) is driven by a desire to reveal an image with strong poetic content, where the body is physical and represents personal speech. Her work is a record of a precise moment that alludes to the poetry of the mind and the connotations that it takes on the body.
Working under the moniker, JEE, multidisciplinary artist Julie Gagné (Saint-David-de-Falardeau, Quebec, Canada) explores themes of identity, resilience, and transformation. Rooted in her Indigenous heritage and LGBTQ+ identity, Gagné’s creations seek to inspire connection and celebrate diversity through powerful, symbolic expressions. With the art of collage, Carole Turini (Nyon, Switzerland) is like Alice in Wonderland: she immerses herself in a world of infinite possibilities; mixing old papers, like postcards, photographs and illustrations, with new papers to create rich interpretations. Keith Maddy (Boston, Massachusetts, USA) meticulously hand cuts and liberates figures, animals and shapes from vintage children’s books to reconfigure in alternate landscapes. Aryana B. Londir (Phoenix, Arizona, USA) centers on balance, harmony and the integration of contradiction and contrast and the opposition of themes, color and form. Londir’s abstract compositions play with the division of space and how spaces and shapes relate to each other. Kirk Read (Portland, Oregon, USA) is drawn to vintage papers including industrial catalogues, youth science encyclopedias, children’s illustration, weathered telephone pole posters and the personal ephemera of strangers. Creating is how Carissa Tirado-Marks (Silver Spring, Maryland, USA) makes sense of the world around her. She finds the collage process to be a beneficial exercise in rewiring her brain as she learns to embrace imperfections.
Collage Artist Trading Cards Pack 10 is sent automatically to members of the Silver Scissors & Golden Glue Societies. These special subscribers support the work of Kolaj Institute while receiving an item from Kolaj each month.
Collage Artist Trading Cards, Pack Ten
5.5″x3.5″ | 15 full-color postcards with title cards in clear plastic bag | 2025 | Published by Kolaj Magazine | Printed in Canada
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