{"id":4142,"date":"2015-10-01T01:55:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T05:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=4142"},"modified":"2015-10-01T15:49:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T19:49:48","slug":"never-had-no-one-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/never-had-no-one-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Had No One Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4143\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/RUTTAN-_New-Champion_.jpg\" alt=\"RUTTAN-_New-Champion_\" width=\"700\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/RUTTAN-_New-Champion_.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/RUTTAN-_New-Champion_-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/RUTTAN-_New-Champion_-600x477.jpg 600w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/RUTTAN-_New-Champion_-560x445.jpg 560w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/RUTTAN-_New-Champion_-260x207.jpg 260w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/RUTTAN-_New-Champion_-160x127.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>The Art of Collage at New City Galerie in Burlington, Vermont<\/h2>\n<p>On the second floor above the Church Street Marketplace in Burlington, Vermont, New City Galerie consistently presents compelling exhibitions of contemporary art in a town with a lively art scene yet few commercial art galleries. Their August to October 2015 exhibition highlights the work of six collage artists from Vermont, Quebec, and New Brunswick. In <a href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/issues\/kolaj-13\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kolaj #13<\/a>, we take a look at the exhibition and the artists represented.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kolajmagazine.com\/shop.html\" target=\"_blank\">SUBSCRIBE <\/a>to <em>Kolaj Magazine<\/em> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kolajmagazine.com\/shop.html\" target=\"_blank\">Get a Copy<\/a> of the Issue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4144\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/BOSLEY-_Determining-the-Truth.jpg\" alt=\"BOSLEY-_Determining-the-Truth\" width=\"700\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/BOSLEY-_Determining-the-Truth.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/BOSLEY-_Determining-the-Truth-300x309.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/BOSLEY-_Determining-the-Truth-600x618.jpg 600w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/BOSLEY-_Determining-the-Truth-560x577.jpg 560w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/BOSLEY-_Determining-the-Truth-260x268.jpg 260w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/BOSLEY-_Determining-the-Truth-160x165.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>This sort of visual play is familiar in the world of collage and a good example of what the curators mean when they say \u201cnew worlds come into being; identities are reestablished.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcitygalerie.org\" target=\"_blank\">New City Galerie<\/a> is located at 132 Church Street in Burlington, Vermont. \u201cNever Had No One Ever\u201d runs through 27 October 2015.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kolajmagazine.com\/shop.html\" target=\"_blank\">SUBSCRIBE <\/a>to Kolaj Magazine or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kolajmagazine.com\/shop.html\" target=\"_blank\">Get a Copy<\/a> of the Issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image (top):<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>New Champion<\/em> by Carl David Ruttan<br \/>\nfrom the \u201cChine Colle\u201d collection<br \/>\n4&#8243;x6&#8243;<br \/>\ncollage<br \/>\nCourtesy of New City Galerie, Burlington<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image (centre):<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Determining the Truth<\/em> by Molly Bosley<br \/>\ncollage<br \/>\nCourtesy of New City Galerie, Burlington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Art of Collage at New City Galerie in Burlington, Vermont On the second floor above the Church Street Marketplace in Burlington, Vermont, New City Galerie consistently presents compelling exhibitions of contemporary art in a town with a lively art&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/never-had-no-one-ever\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-collage-exhibitions","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/BOSLEY-_Determining-the-Truth.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2QTD7-14O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8307,"url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/cultural-deconstructions\/","url_meta":{"origin":4142,"position":0},"title":"Cultural Deconstructions","author":"Christopher Byrne","date":"20 July 2019","format":"gallery","excerpt":"COLLAGE ON VIEW Cultural Deconstructions: Critical Issues in Collage Curated by Ric Kasini Kadourat LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 10-27 July 2019 Gallery Talk Saturday, 27 July 2019, 1PM CATALOG AVAILABLE By its nature, the creation of art is the construction of culture. 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