The Collector Assembles

Coronet Super 12 by Tim Harper
15″x8″x5″; wall assemblage. Courtesy of the artist.

FROM KOLAJ 32

Tim Harper’s Artist Portfolio

Collage artists are brilliant at collecting, interpreting, and rehabilitating print ephemera. Tim Harper does this with object material culture. “I collect things that I find interesting: scrap wood and metal, pieces of machinery, dried vegetation and flowers, anything I think has some visual potential. These become my library of materials,” wrote the artist. A portfolio of Harper’s work appears in Kolaj 32 and the assemblage, Three Wheel, appears on the cover.

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Time Slide Down by Tim Harper
31″x17″x10″; wall assemblage. Courtesy of the artist.

My very favorite thing is to show a piece at a gallery and have someone tell me what kind of story they see.

A portfolio of Tim Harper’s work appears in Kolaj 32To see the complete Artist Portfolio, SUBSCRIBE to Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue.

Tim Harper has been a tinkerer, maker, and sculptor since his dad first let him play with tools in the garage sometime back in the early 1980s. Following five years as a Financial Analyst, he went back to school to pursue his dream of becoming an artist. Tim now works professionally as a graphic designer, builds found object assemblages and kinetic machines, and designs public sculpture. His work has been shown in solo and group shows throughout the mid-Atlantic, and Tim has taught kinetic sculpture classes to children and adults. He is a founding partner of the award-winning collaborative Lively/Harper Environmental Sculpture. Harper lives and works in Midlothian, Virginia. Learn more at the Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory and at www.timharperdesign.com.