KOLAJ #22
The Mysterious Vintage of Evan Clayton Horback
“The collage art of Evan Clayton Horback comes in all sizes, but it is his smaller works that always grab my attention,” writes Kevin Sampsell in Kolaj #22. “They’re made on tiny matchbooks, poster board, found objects, torn-off book covers, and other book scraps. They have the distressed look of something that could be a hundred years old or something salvaged from a house fire or plane crash. Part of the reason for the well-worn appearances of these collages is that Horback often blends partial close-ups of mysterious vintage images accented—or even scarred—with bold lines, dots, or patches of colour. You get the sensation of looking at something classic or maybe something with a silent but holy secret. They’re diamonds in the rough.”
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The way Horback adds a painterly attitude with a monoprinting method, where he uses pieces of glass to apply dots and other design elements, is used often and with great effect.
Evan Clayton Horback lives and works in Olympia, Washington, USA. He has a BA and BS in Visual Art & Art Education from the State University of New York and an MEd from Edinboro University in Pennsylvania. His work has been shown across the United States in solo and group exhibitions. He received the Southwest Washington Juried Exhibition Merit Award in 2017 and was a 2016 Artist Trust Gap grant recipient. Learn more about the artist and his work at www.evanclaytonhorback.com.
This article appeared in Kolaj #22. To see more, SUBSCRIBE to Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue.
Images (top to bottom):
augmenter la popularite
by Evan Clayton Horback
3.25″x2.75″x.5″
cut & paste minibook with staple
2017
Black Panther
by Evan Clayton Horback
collage
untitled minibook (how the eyes serve)
by Evan Clayton Horback
3″x2.25″
mixed media, collage on book cover