{"id":3440,"date":"2014-12-09T01:10:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T06:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2014-12-12T10:31:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:31:47","slug":"takes-len-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/takes-len-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing What It Takes: Len Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Catherine G. Wagley profiled Los Angeles-based collage artist Len Davis in Issue 10 of Kolaj Magazine<\/em>. Davis has been showing widely around the U.S. over the past year, a result of his hard work of reaching out to galleries and universities, designers and production artists.<\/p>\n

Part of Wagley’s conversation with Davis is a discussion of a piece called\u00a0Find a Way:<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s about how if you cannot come up with a solution, you\u2019ve just got to keep grinding away,\u201d says Davis. He has painted yellow clouds on cut-up newspaper and also painted black holes that make the sky look like a fa\u00e7ade that\u2019s breaking apart in places. So the planes are finding their ways against a background that\u2019s part sunny, part dark.\u00a0\u201cYou have to find a way to get to where you want to be or need to be,\u201d Davis continues, \u201cand I try to apply that to life and in terms of my career. I\u2019d like to be a full-time working artist and I\u2019m still trying to find that way. It takes years, so . . .\u201d His lets that thought fade. \u201cIt\u2019s more of a philosophy, or a strategy,\u201d he adds, which is often how his collages work: they represent observations or ideas he has about life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This article originally appeared in Issue Ten. To read the entire article and other writing about the world of collage,\u00a0SUBSCRIBE<\/a>\u00a0to Kolaj<\/em> or\u00a0PURCHASE ISSUE TEN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Image:<\/strong>
\nA Thousand Words #8<\/em>
\nby Len Davis
\n8″x5″
\ncollage and graphite on newsprint and panel
\nCourtesy of the artist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Catherine G. Wagley profiled Los Angeles-based collage artist Len Davis in Issue 10 of Kolaj Magazine. Davis has been showing widely around the U.S. over the past year, a result of his hard work of reaching out to galleries and…<\/p>\n

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