{"id":5540,"date":"2017-01-05T15:45:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T20:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=5540"},"modified":"2017-01-05T16:16:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T21:16:51","slug":"marvelous-stranger-than-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/marvelous-stranger-than-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvelous! & Stranger Than Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"olga-lupi-anguille\"<\/p>\n

“Marvelous! An International Exhibition
\nof Collage, Assemblage and Construction”
\n6 January-12 February 2017<\/h2>\n

“Marvelous!” is the first show of its kind in California in decades devoted strictly to collage, assemblage and construction, and features works by artists from around the world .<\/p>\n

The show’s title, “Marvelous!”, sprang from Surrealism\u2019s foremost visionary, Andr\u00e9 Breton. In his 1924 Manifesto, he attributed the idea of \u201cmarvelous\u201d to the essence of the movement. Since that time, collage and its 3-D counterpart, assemblage, have evolved throughout the last 100 years in a myriad of complex and curious directions. The goal of “Marvelous!” is to educate visitors about the scope and relevance of these mediums today and to expose viewers to some of the most innovative international collage and assemblage artists from the U.S., Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Argentina, the Philippines, and South Africa.<\/p>\n

“Marvelous!” was juried by collage artists John Hundt (San Francisco), Sherry Parker (Sonoma County, California), and Cecil Touchon (Santa Fe, New Mexico). Touchon is also the founding director of The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage, and Construction<\/a> in Santa Fe.<\/p>\n

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“Stranger Than Fiction”: John Hundt & Sherry Parker
\n6 January-12 February 2017<\/h2>\n

“Stranger than Fiction”, a concurrent show of collage art by jurors John Hundt and Sherry Parker, is taking place in Sebastopol Art Center’s Gallery III.<\/p>\n

Both artists share a fascination with anthropomorphism. John Hundt\u2019s collages explore the notion of evolution that \u201ctook a wrong turn\u201d, be it flora or fauna–blending and distorting encyclopedic-like elements drawn from human, animal, geology, astrology, and archeology. Sherry Parker is intrigued by CHANCE and the way in which this phenomenon \u201cinforms\u201d her work from start to finish–the serendipitous discovery of “found” materials, the random (unconscious) selection process, the fortuitous mistakes, and the bringing together of disparate detritus to create order out of chaos. Oxymoronically, she calls her process \u201corchestrated chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

(adapted from the venue’s press materials)<\/em><\/p>\n

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INFORMATION<\/h3>\n

Sebastopol Center for the Arts<\/strong>
\n282 South High Street
\nSebastopol, California 95472 USA
\n(707) 829-4797<\/p>\n

Hours:
\nTuesday-Friday, 10AM-4PM
\nSaturday-Sunday, 1-4PM<\/p>\n

MAP<\/a>\u00a0| WEBSITE<\/a> |\u00a0FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n

Image (top):<\/strong>
\nAnguille<\/em> by Olga Lupi<\/p>\n

Image (centre):<\/strong>
\nwork by John Hundt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Marvelous! An International Exhibition of Collage, Assemblage and Construction” 6 January-12 February 2017 “Marvelous!” is the first show of its kind in California in decades devoted strictly to collage, assemblage and construction, and features works by artists from around the…<\/p>\n

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