{"id":9905,"date":"2020-07-22T17:11:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=9905"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:11:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:11:01","slug":"papercut-polaroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/papercut-polaroids\/","title":{"rendered":"Papercut Polaroids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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All About the Paching Paching<\/em> by Rosa Leff
16″x20″; hand-cut paper. Courtesy of the artist and Soapbox Arts. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

COLLAGE ON VIEW<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Papercut Polaroids<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

at Soapbox Arts in Burlington, Vermont, USA
17 July-29 August 2020<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Though the unknowns\u00a0of life in a pandemic have left many feeling anxious and overwhelmed, Baltimore-based artist Rosa Leff embraced her time in quarantine as an opportunity\u00a0to slow down, refocus, and commit full time\u00a0to her art-making process. The change of pace may not have been voluntary at first, but it provided a welcome space for the well traveled artist to reflect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unraveling the common threads that connect her most recent papercuts, whether based on photographs of her own backyard or taken during past adventures abroad, we see that for the artist, a place and our experience of it is only the sum of its most overlooked parts. Celebrating the mundane, Rosa memorializes the messier details of urban life- tangled nests of telephone wires and power lines, blocks of storefronts crowded with competing signage, and broadsides of rusted delivery trucks emblazoned with local graffiti tags. For Rosa Leff, a memory is all in the details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosa Leff began cutting paper in 2012 while working on her Master\u2019s in Elementary Education at The University of Pennsylvania. When asked to create a children\u2019s book as part of her program, she looked to Eric Carle and Ezra Jack Keats for inspiration. Building on the education she received from painting with her grandmother, Jacqueline Ziegler, and her time at the Instituto Superior de Artes de La Habana, Leff created her first papercut illustrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She now serves on the board of The Guild of American Papercutters and is best known for her obsession with power lines and urban landscapes. Each cityscape is cut from a single sheet of paper using Excel Blades in her Baltimore studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soapbox Arts<\/strong>
Suite 119
266 Pine Street
Burlington, Vermont 05401 USA
(802) 324-0014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours:
Thursday-Saturday, 11AM-5PM
and by appointment<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAP<\/a> | WEBSITE<\/a> | FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COLLAGE ON VIEW Papercut Polaroids at Soapbox Arts in Burlington, Vermont, USA17 July-29 August 2020 Though the unknowns\u00a0of life in a pandemic have left many feeling anxious and overwhelmed, Baltimore-based artist Rosa Leff embraced her time in quarantine as an…<\/p>\n

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