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| An embroidered postcard I fell in love with at the wonderful show Secondhand at Pier24 Photography. If you live in the Bay Area I recommend you stop by. It seems many people don't know about this wonderful photography resource. Free -- but you must have an appointment. Just check out the website. The show was so interesting and I took so many photos, I may have to do a post about Secondhand. Many of the photos in the show were altered in some way, like the embroidery on this card, which may me rethink the definition of collage/altered art/assemblage. I collect embroidered postcards and have made some mail art by sewing on photos so it was fun to see this in a museum. |
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| Collage classes continued.... One thing I have realized from this class is that the definition of collage -- or simply collages themselves -- is much broader than I had realized. For example, looking at this photo, I see a collage. And it may not be permanent but it existed in the moment and the photograph is a record of it. Maybe that's why I have always loved taking photographs like this? |
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| Here's another...... |
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| I also realized my Stamp Head series on vintage photos are collages too. I never thought of them as collages but they are... collage: 1. a kind of surrealist art in which bits of flat objects, such as newspaper, cloth, pressed flowers, etc., are pasted together in incongruous relationship for their symbolic or suggestive effect. 2. a picture so made --- Webster's Dictionary1960 |
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| A collage attempt -- not entirely successful. I find, when given a topic or told to do something in a certain style, I really freeze up. I'm used to working on my own. But I'm trying to just open up my mind and try things without really worrying how they actually turn out. |
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| Previous week's collage... |
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| After some slides and pointers the class gets down to work....it is really lovely to see how quiet and engrossed in making collages everyone gets.... Here's a link which goes in to a bit more detail about the definition of collage. And, by the way, it was pretty obvious by the work in the class that collages don't have to be flat works on paper. Times change. Quite a few folks made three-dimensional pieces -- very cool ones. (I didn't think I should show other people's work). |
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| Matt Conzalez Collages at Dolby Chatwick Gallery (all sold out -- amazing!) |
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| We are having crazy weather in the 70's so I am out going for a lot of walks (and you know I am picking up a lot of paper ephemera) -- and I am seeing wonderful street art and collages out there on the streets. Someone made a wonderful group of these right down the street from my house. |
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| This looks nice and layered and collage-like to me too... There are times I really get frustrated -- all the links I put here have just disappeared -- and it is a lot of work -- Blogger can sure be annoying. I will try again..... There are some interesting shows to check out here in SF at the moment -- Secondhand at Pier 24 Matt Gonzalez at Dobly Chatwick gallery Melinda Tidwell At Andrea Schwartz Gallery The photos are messed up and out of order but I give up -- who says there is a right order anyway? I am posting this and hitting the studio and getting to work -- and taking another walk on this beautiful day. I'll will think about art on the walk.  |
