{"id":18483,"date":"2026-06-03T18:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=18483"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:59:12","slug":"composite-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/composite-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Composite World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Antique Robot 10.0<\/em> by Steven Rudin
40″x30″; hand cut collage: photo papers and acrylic polymers on sintra board; 2026. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

COLLAGE ON VIEW<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Composite World <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

at Satchel Projects in New York, New York, USA
4 June-2 July 2026<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In an era of relentless digital image circulation, the artists in \u201cComposite World\u201d turn to the tactile act of cutting, collecting, and recombining printed matter. Working primarily with analog collage, they find and reassemble magazines, photographs, advertisements, and other forms of ephemera into new embodied forms, dislocated from their original contexts and set into newly dynamic relations. Collage operates as both method and metaphor: a means of constructing images while exposing their underlying structures. Through acts of isolation, rearrangement, and juxtaposition, these artists disrupt the narratives embedded within mass-produced imagery, allowing unexpected relationships between figures, objects, and spaces to emerge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In these works, the familiar becomes untethered and fluid. A hand, a landscape, a pattern, a face\u2014each fragment carries traces of its previous life yet acquires new meaning through proximity to others. Compositions emerge through accumulation and editing: a careful negotiation between what is gathered and what is withheld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Small Eclipses<\/em> by Rochelle Voyles
9.5″x12″; mixed media collage, paper, and wood; 2026. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition\u2019s title gestures beyond the mechanics of collage toward the ways identity itself is formed. Like these images, our sense of self develops as a composite structure, shaped over time through layers of memory, influence, environment, and encounter. Experiences adhere like fragments: some seamlessly integrated, others leaving visible edges. \u201cComposite World\u201d proposes that both images and identities are assembled rather than fixed, continually revised through the fragments we choose to carry forward and those we allow to fall away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curated by Paul Loughney, \u201cComposite World\u201d brings together seven artists whose distinctive bodies of work reveal collage\u2019s rich formal and conceptual possibilities. The show includes works by Andrea Burgay, Andr\u00e9s Gamiochipi, Eva Lake, Paul Loughney, Steven Rudin, Paloma Trecka, and Rochelle Voyles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(text adapted from material provided by the gallery)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Satchel Projects<\/strong>
526 West 26th Street
New York, New York 10001 USA
(917) 488-5921<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours:
Thursday-Saturday, Noon-6PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAP<\/a> | WEBSITE<\/a> | INSTAGRAM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COLLAGE ON VIEW Composite World at Satchel Projects in New York, New York, USA4 June-2 July 2026 In an era of relentless digital image circulation, the artists in \u201cComposite World\u201d turn to the tactile act of cutting, collecting, and recombining…<\/p>\n

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