The accumulation of small objects within Josée Landry Sirois’ work creates a tension, an allusion to excess, and experimentation with something whole, yet made of many smaller elements.
Kolaj Goes to the Fair: Galerie Michel Guimont
Kolaj Goes to the Fair: Galerie Division
Simon Hughes creates a comparison between our perceptions of traditional aboriginal life and contemporary realities.
Kolaj Goes to the Fair: Beaux-Arts des Amériques
Kolaj Goes to the Fair: An Introduction
A review and report from Montreal’s Papier12 by Ariane Fairlie. An annual contemporary art fair of works on paper presented by the Association of Contemporary Art Galleries (AGAC), Papier 12 was held April 12-15, 2012, in a large tent at the edge of Place des Arts in downtown Montreal.
In the Studio: Audrey Smith
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John O’Donnell
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Disfigured Bodies: The Human as a Medium in the Collages of James Gallagher and Sophie Jodoin
Toronto-based artist Jp King visited the studios of two artists: James Gallagher of Brooklyn, New York, USA and Sophie Jodoin of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Amongst the immediately recognizable qualities of both artists, their exclusive color palettes speak of the worlds they inhabit.
Fred Free – Collage Master
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Tamar Cohen
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“Transmitter/Receiver: The Persistence of Collage” at The New Art Gallery Walsall
4 May-30 June 2012
The title of this touring exhibition comes from the words of the French critic Nicholas Bourriaud: “We are no longer either passive receivers or authoritative cultural transmitters, but potentially both simultaneously.” It presents the work of 32 artists to illustrate some of the uses of “collage in British art from the first influences of the Parisian avant-garde” through the present day.