{"id":6678,"date":"2021-05-07T16:08:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T20:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=6678"},"modified":"2021-05-07T16:09:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T20:09:50","slug":"vicky-helms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/vicky-helms","title":{"rendered":"Vicky Helms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"969\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/vicky-helms-the-precipice-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/vicky-helms-the-precipice-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/vicky-helms-the-precipice-1-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/vicky-helms-the-precipice-1-210x291.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption><em>The Precipice<\/em><br>10&#8243;x8&#8243;; paper; 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vicky Helms<br>Wausau, Wisconsin, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tend to use a lot of planets and Hubble space telescope photos as backgrounds for my collages. Then I build my landscapes from there. At times I call them &#8220;emotional landscapes&#8221;, as the 1900s black and white characters I use in them always portray a variety of &#8220;emotions&#8221;, usually my own at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a mixed media artist for 30 plus years and a collagist for probably 10 of those years. Living in the Midwest, I have the pleasure of being surrounded by beautiful lakes and woods and I often find these as themes in my work\u2026visionary landscapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to email (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"mailto:vjhelms87@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">click to email<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"973\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/vicky-helms-the-transformation.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/vicky-helms-the-transformation.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/vicky-helms-the-transformation-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/vicky-helms-the-transformation-210x292.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption><em><em>The Transformation<\/em><br><\/em>10&#8243;x8&#8243;; paper; 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"987\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/vicky-helms-the-confrontation.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/vicky-helms-the-confrontation.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/vicky-helms-the-confrontation-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/vicky-helms-the-confrontation-210x296.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption><em><em>The Confrontation<\/em><br><\/em>10&#8243;x8&#8243;; paper; 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"994\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/vicky-helms-the-knowing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/vicky-helms-the-knowing.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/vicky-helms-the-knowing-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/vicky-helms-the-knowing-210x298.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption><em><em>The Knowing<\/em><br><\/em>10&#8243;x8&#8243;; paper; 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wausau, Wisconsin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9414,"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":[148],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/vicky-helms-the-precipice-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BNTD-1JI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678"}],"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=6678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}