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THE FUNDRAISING EXHIBITION 2020July 15th, 2020 to September 30th, 2020 Opening & Kolaj LIVE Online Launch As part of Kolaj LIVE Online, Kolaj Institute is hosting a Fundraising Exhibition to support the organization's residencies, publications, fellowships, and traveling programs. The artwork on sale benefits both the artist and the organization. |
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The mission of Kolaj Institute is to support artists, curators, and writers who seek to study, document, & disseminate ideas that deepen our understanding of collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century movement. We operate a number of initiatives meant to bring together community, investigate critical issues, and raise collage’s standing in the art world. We work to build archives of collage artists, develop traveling exhibitions, support fellowships and residencies, publish books, and produce symposiums and other events, like Kolaj LIVE Online, that bring the community together. To inquire or purchase a work, send an email. Artists are paid for their work and the proceeds of the sale support the work of Kolaj Institute. Kolaj Institute is a fiscally sponsored project of Antenna, a New Orleans-based 501c3 non-profit organization with a fifteen year history of providing direct support to artists & writers. Please note, the price of the work does not reflect the cost of shipping which ranges between $20-100 depending on the piece. Shipping cost can be provided on request. |
Meikel Church
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Meikel Church
Self-Inflicted Regret by Meikel Church Born in Conway, Arkansas, Church currently lives and works in Little Rock, Arkansas. His interest in art, and creating visual art is a fairly new endeavour. He began to experiment with collage, and developed an almost addiction to finding old images, cutting them up, then reassembling the individual pieces into new scenes. He is drawn to images that elicit a feeling, and anything that depicts the condition of being human. A portfolio of his collage appeared in Kolaj #12. MORE |
Danielle Cole
A plague on both your houses by Danielle Cole
Danielle Cole is a Toronto-based artist who creates playful collages through an assembly of original vintage graphics. Her work often explores the absurdity of domestic roles and the need for material goods. She writes about this piece: "All tragedy found in fiction is based on miscommunication. ‘A plague on both your houses,’ is the title of this analogue collage piece and a direct quote from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Two deaths brought on by the failure of messages received and information withheld. Lovers who decline to be apart during this time of self-isolation are the authors of their own tragedies. Love reimagined will be love rewarded at the end of this challenging time." MORE |
Vanessa Compton
Up and Away by Vanessa Compton
Vanessa Compton has lived in Dakar, Senegal studying the kora and its influence on hip hop music, and Kumasi, Ghana learning palm wine guitar with living master Koo Nimo. After falling in love with rock climbing, she moved to Colorado and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from CU-Boulder. Her sculptures and collages have been exhibited in galleries across the US and appear in private collections around the world. She has been awarded fellowships from The Brinton Museum, The Wallace Stegner House, Vermont Studio Center, Hubbell Trading Post & National Historic Site, The Brush Creek Foundation, and Jentel Arts. MORE |
Enrique "Kike" Congrains
Saint by Enrique "Kike" Congrains
Enrique "Kike" Congrains is the Latin American Fellow at Kolaj Institute. A self-taught visual artist, Congrains specializes in paper work. His collages are based on clippings from old magazines and colored cards. His primary tools are scissors, blades and rubber cement. His work has been shown in solo and group shows in Hong Kong, Scotland, Spain, Argentina and Norway. He was a presenter at both Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2018 and 2019. He lives and works in Lima, Peru. MORE |
Ben DiNino
Our Human Body-Its Wonder and Its Care by Ben DiNino
In 2018 Ben attended the first Kolaj Fest in New Orleans which inspired and encouraged him to get more serious about his work. In the last two years, he has shown in over 20 exhibitions worldwide, been featured in a variety of print publications, has contributed to a number of online artists groups, and has posted a new work everyday on his instagram. In 2019, Ben also was one of the founding members of The Twin Cities Collage Collective, a group who until the recent Covid-19 outbreak held monthly free collage meet ups for the community. He lives in Minneapolis with his family. MORE |
David Crunelle
Electrum 52 by David Crunelle
David Crunelle is a multidisciplinary artist from Brussels, Belgium, mainly developing his work in visual art, photography and graphic design. He has been teaching visual communication and photography in higher education for over ten years. He works as art director in a communication agency and he is also a stock photographer for Getty. Winner of several graphic design competitions between 2009 and 2013, he switched to contemporary art in 2014. Since then, his work has been displayed in galleries and art spaces all over the world. He is currently represented by Zedes Art Gallery. His lenticular collage, Electrum 47 is on the cover of Kolaj #29. David was born, lives and works in Brussels. MORE |
Michael Pajón
Abracadabra by Michael Pajón
Michael Pajón is a collage artist with a passion for print and a love of old books. His dense compositions with meticulously hand-cut materials are sourced from heavily illustrated antique books and ephemera. By breaking up context and repurposing materials into fables, portraits, Homeric landscapes, and allegorical tales filled with romance and ennui, he creates something beautiful out the imperfect and antiquated establishing a contemporary dialogue with the reader. “Pajón is not simply using the visual language of the paper fragments he includes in his collage, he is using their history -the nostalgic images of children from elementary readers, the off-portrayal of wildlife from inaccurate encyclopedias, the over simplified illustration of human anatomy – to weave a narrative about our place in the world and how we have come to understand it.” Pajón was on the cover of Kolaj #15 and was included in the exhibition, Revolutionary Paths at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2018. MORE |
Jill Stoll
A Voyage With Joseph by Jill Stoll
Born and raised in Michigan, Jill Stoll attended two of the state’s most celebrated cultural institutions, graduating from Interlochen Arts Academy and earning a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Since moving to New Orleans in 2009, her affiliation with Tulane School of Architecture has included teaching first year drawing, design studio, and electives in mixed media collage. As editor, she directed the relaunch of the reVIEW, a time-honored publication that highlights the best of student work. From 2012-2015, Stoll served as Associate Dean of Students and Director of Career Explorations in Architecture. In October 2016, the AIA New Orleans was the site of a solo exhibition of her work. “WITHDRAWN” featured a 4’ x 40’ collage mural comprised of paper ephemera. Using intricately cut pages from “withdrawn” library books, Stoll took that which was fragmented in order to rebuild it. Having passed through many hands for decades, these decommissioned books would be lost to the digital age had the artist not commemorated them through art and collage. By April 2018, Stoll has snail mailed 1,850 original postcard collages through her Random Acts of Mail Art Project (a completely commerce-free endeavor that aligns with the concept of Random Acts of Kindness) and through her Mail Art Subscriptions, a program that sends subscribers a small piece of handmade art in the mail each month. MORE |
Athena Petra Tasiopoulos
Three by Athena Petra Tasiopoulos
Athena Petra Tasiopoulos is a mixed media collage artist and fine art photographer. She writes, "My imagination is continuously lured by the mystery of forgotten imagery. It is as if the subjects in these found photos exist in an interesting sort of limbo–simultaneously trapped yet saved within the photograph. I find myself feeling compassion for them. By re-inventing the portrait, I aim to disjoint my subjects from an antiquated identity, allowing them to transcend the constraints of time and place." Originally from Pennsylvania, Athena studied photography at the Art Institute of Philadelphia where she graduated at the top of her class in 2008. She currently resides in central Vermont. Her work is collected internationally. MORE |
Bianca Walker
Bac by Bianca Walker
Bianca Walker is a studio artist from Berkeley, California who is currently practicing in Louisiana. She received her BA from Grambling State University and studio arts and attends the University of New Orleans to pursue her Master's in Fine Arts. She has been in group exhibitions across northern Louisiana, her most recent being the Bloom! exhibition at the R.W. Norton Gallery. She hopes to continue to grow her skills as a gallery artist and one day be a professor of arts at a university. Walker is an artist in the August Artist Lab with Tulane University. |
Bredt Bredthauer
Abandoned Migrant Clothing: Old Military Highway, Rio Grande Valley by Bredt Bredthauer
This photograph is part of a series Bredt Bredthauer made during the three months he spent walking and photographing the border between Texas and Mexico. Bredthauer holds a BA and MA in English and an MFA in Poetry. He has bicycled around the world, taught English in Saudi Arabia, and spent three months walking the US-Mexico border. Until recently, he used art as a way to process information and to understand emotions. He found a community in Los Angeles and this has allowed him to focus on several projects using textiles, collage, and photography to explore trauma and mental health, while also addressing some of the humanitarian issues he has experienced and witnessed. Bredthauer is an artist in the August Artist Lab with Tulane University. |
Andrea Burgay
(Magical Nights) by Andrea Burgay
Brooklyn based artist Andrea Burgay explores collage processes as psychological metaphors through her work and collaborative projects. By adding and removing layers of handmade and collected materials, her collage works present a physical manifestation of the passage of time through cycles of destruction and renewal. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. Burgay is also the founder and editor of Cut Me Up, a participatory collage magazine and curatorial project. Burgay's conversations about excavation as metaphor appear in Kolaj #28 and Kolaj #29. MORE |
Haley Sanborn
Embroidery Sampler 2 by Haley Sanborn
While attending college in Baltimore, fiber artist and sculptor Haley Sanborn became involved in local activism and became interested in how art can be used as a tool to organize people inside and outside of the art world. Sanborn has had a solo exhibition at John Fonda Gallery in Baltimore in 2018, and participated in a four-month residency at Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota in 2019. At Franconia, she learned to work with metal, and was able to create her largest work to date, which is currently displayed in the park. In June 2020, she participated in the Pandemic Artist Lab. The artist lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. Sanborn holds a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. In addition to her art practice, she works as a community organizer. MORE |
Paola de la Calle
Aqui/Alla by Paola de la Calle
Paola de la Calle is a Colombian-American interdisciplinary artist whose work examines home, borders, identity, and nostalgia. Her practice is a multidisciplinary exploration that ties together her family’s migration, personal memories, as well as historical and political narratives through the use of textiles, printmaking, and collage. She is a 2019 graduate of the New York Foundation of the Arts Immigrant Artist Program and a current artist in residence at Galeria de la Raza. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States at Galeria de la Raza, Root Division, Crosstown Arts, Jay Etkin Gallery, and Nave Gallery among others. Her work has been published in Mujerista Co. issues III and IV and GRAPHITE Journal. Her studio practice and writing have been featured in Hyperallergic’s “A View from the Easel”. In June 2020, she participated in the Pandemic Artist Lab. She is currently based in San Francisco, California. MORE |
Guillaume Chiron
Le voltigeur en slip by Guillaume Chiron
Guillaume Chiron is a French artist known for his surreal, colourful artwork. In his artistic approach, he mixes the real with the unreal, the known with the unknown. First, his art is deconstructed by multiple samples in a body of images produced and made available by the cultural industry. Then, he reconstructs and projects a new world, by selecting and bringing together some of these fragments. Sometimes, chance meets his work, and the magic operates. The lines of leaks follow each other and the perspectives coincide. New scenes appear, funny or incongruous, strange and reflexive. His 2015 book of collage, Mangez La Banane Parlez Debout appeared in Kolaj #15 and his 2018 book, Apprendre avec des pincettes appeared in Kolaj #22. MORE |
Katie McCann
Red In Tooth & Claw by Katie McCann
Katie McCann is an English collage artist living in Berkeley, California. Her collages have been exhibited in the USA and in Europe. She is one of fifty featured female collage artists in the new book, Collage By Women (Promopress Editions, 2019). Her collages can also be seen on a utility box in the City of Berkeley for the city’s public art project. Katie has shown her award winning collages in many solo and group shows including, most recently, “The World of Frida” exhibition at The Bedford Gallery in California. MORE |
Olivia Descampe
Watch me by Olivia Descampe
In a time when digital technology makes it so much easier to fuse disparate forms together and make them one, there is a natural, tactile quality to physical collage that cannot be replicated on a screen. Olivia Descampe’s innate instinct for collecting visual forms has pushed her to focus ever more energy on her pieces. Having grown up in an artistic environment due to her mother being a fanatical art collector, Descampe pursued an education in interior architecture and product design, but it was only after moving to Berlin that she developed her passion for collage. Starting with a curious collection of postcards found in a shop near her home, what started as a means of relaxation became a serious artistic practice once she discovered her talent for bringing together independent imagery to create something new. Selections from Olivia Descampe’s “Botanical Catwalk” series grace the front and back cover of Kolaj #19. Descampe was born in Paris, grew up in Brussels and is now calling Berlin her home for the better part of two years. MORE |
EvenSteve
There Is Something That I Know by EveNSteve
EveNSteve is the creative team of author Eve O. Schaub and artist Stephen Schaub. Together they create artworks that combine handwritten stories and texts with in-camera collage on film. These works are presented at a monumental scale, as well as miniaturized in accordion book form; such works range from four feet in length to artworks as long as thirty feet. MORE |
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