{"id":6241,"date":"2019-03-16T16:22:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T20:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=6241"},"modified":"2019-12-24T11:53:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T16:53:43","slug":"caroline-alkire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/caroline-alkire","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Alkire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6242\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/fruit-kolaj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/fruit-kolaj.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/fruit-kolaj-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/fruit-kolaj-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/fruit-kolaj-210x210.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Fruit Cluster 1<\/em><br \/>\n3371 pixels x 3368 pixels; paper, glue; 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caroline Alkire<br \/>\nMinneapolis, Minnesota, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Caroline Alkire is a collage artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She cuts up vintage magazines and books to create surreal, whimsical, and vibrant scenes. Caroline specializes in flowerwork, mixing colourful florals with eccentric and unusual backdrops. Her artwork encapsulates a playful and ethereal world of juxtaposition and opposites colliding. Her influences include Hieronymous Bosch, Ren\u00e9 Magritte, and Salvador Dali.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Caroline Alkire is an artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Caroline has been making collage art since she was 16 years old, after receiving a stack of old <em>National Geographic<\/em> magazines from a relative. Since her artistic endeavours began, she has been featured in several popular online art magazines such as <em>Ignant<\/em> and <em>Juxtapoz<\/em>. She has created album artwork for local Minnesota-based music artists, and international artists such as Lord Huron, and her work is displayed in establishments across the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"mailto:cpalkire@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click to email<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6243\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/fish-kolaj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/fish-kolaj.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/fish-kolaj-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/fish-kolaj-210x179.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Fish 1<\/em><br \/>\n4543 pixels x 5335 pixels; paper, glue; 2019<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6244\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/snake-kolaj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/snake-kolaj.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/snake-kolaj-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/snake-kolaj-210x170.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Snake 1<\/em><br \/>\n3830 pixels x 4747 pixels; paper, glue; 2018<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6245\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cloud-kolaj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cloud-kolaj.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cloud-kolaj-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cloud-kolaj-210x252.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Cloud Playground<\/em><br \/>\n6000 pixels x 5000 pixels; paper, glue; 2018<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6246\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pedestrians-kolaj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pedestrians-kolaj.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pedestrians-kolaj-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pedestrians-kolaj-210x179.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Architectural Pedestrians<\/em><br \/>\n4570 pixels x 5374 pixels; paper, glue, Photoshop; 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, Minnesota<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8],"tags":[54],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/fruit-kolaj.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BNTD-1CF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}