{"id":708,"date":"2012-08-21T01:44:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T05:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=708"},"modified":"2012-08-14T11:48:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:48:04","slug":"janice-mcdonald-bounce-at-spark-gallery-denver-colorado-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/janice-mcdonald-bounce-at-spark-gallery-denver-colorado-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Janice McDonald: Bounce&#8221; at Spark Gallery, Denver, Colorado, USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-709\" title=\"Roundabout by Janice McDonald (30&quot;x30&quot;, paper collage) at Spark Gallery\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roundabout-contemporary-paper-collage-by-Janice-McDonald-30-x-30-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roundabout-contemporary-paper-collage-by-Janice-McDonald-30-x-30-web.jpg 480w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roundabout-contemporary-paper-collage-by-Janice-McDonald-30-x-30-web-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roundabout-contemporary-paper-collage-by-Janice-McDonald-30-x-30-web-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Janice McDonald: Bounce<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBounce\u201d, Janice McDonald\u2019s new collages, \u201creworks the round\u201d in an exploration of dot, pattern, and scale. McDonald starts with an evocative piece of paper and builds from there, using magazines, newspapers, and junk mail in the way other artists use paint: to create textures, colours, shapes, and negative spaces. The final, abstract work is varnished and mounted on 10\u201dx10\u201dx1\u201d cradled wood panels. She calls her collage practice \u201can intuitive and ongoing visual experiment\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spark Gallery, Denver, Colorado, USA<\/strong><br \/>\n24 May-17 June 2012<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkgallery.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.sparkgallery.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 May-17 June 2012<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBounce\u201d, Janice McDonald\u2019s new collages, \u201creworks the round\u201d in an exploration of dot, pattern, and scale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/janice-mcdonald-bounce-at-spark-gallery-denver-colorado-usa\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roundabout-contemporary-paper-collage-by-Janice-McDonald-30-x-30-web.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2QTD7-bq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17969,"url":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/do-process\/","url_meta":{"origin":708,"position":0},"title":"Do\/Process","author":"Seth Ter Haar","date":"26 March 2026","format":"gallery","excerpt":"Resist by Janice McDonald30\"x22\"; collage on watercolor paper; 2026; Courtesy of the artist. 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Learn more, see an overview of the program, and register to attend HERE. 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