{"id":627,"date":"2012-09-03T01:48:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T05:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=627"},"modified":"2013-03-29T10:09:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T14:09:58","slug":"disfigured-bodies-the-human-as-a-medium-in-the-collages-of-james-gallagher-and-sophie-jodoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/disfigured-bodies-the-human-as-a-medium-in-the-collages-of-james-gallagher-and-sophie-jodoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Disfigured Bodies: The Human as a Medium in the Collages of James Gallagher and Sophie Jodoin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>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. \u00a0Amongst the immediately recognizable qualities of both artists, their exclusive colour palettes speak of the worlds they inhabit. Jodoin works in an entirely monochromatic, grayscale world, absent of the vintage comforts of Gallagher\u2019s creams, browns, yellows, and stained and weathered pages. There is something familiar and unsettling about the black-and-white world. It harkens back to a cinematic myth that the modern era lived in a time absent of colour. Gallagher\u2019s patchwork of endpapers, flyleaves, scraps and title pages suggest that his people occupy a liminal space at the boundary of narrative.<\/p>\n

To read the entire article, purchase a subscription<\/a> to Kolaj<\/em>\u00a0or purchase Issue One<\/a>.<\/p>\n

image: Hug 2 by James Gallagher, 8″ x 10″, collage, 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. <\/p>\n

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