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Awesome Lyon based artist talent juxtapose two disciplines of paper art and visual design leaving the kicking results with great colour and composition.
Потрясающий дизайнер из Лиона соединяет в своих работах бумагопластику и графический дизайн, достигая первоклассных результатов.
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One of the highlights for me during the last couple months was hearing Michael Anderson shut down a pessimistic discussion about “no new types of painting.” His booming voice broke the ennui in the room with: “The future is really enormous and there must be at least 9 million new kinds of painting to be made.” Michael is optimistic, and his art is too. He was cool enough to let us into his studio, the Harlem Collage Shop, to check out what he is up to. Using street posters and billboards gathered in NYC and other major cities around the world, Anderson makes super-sized collages, commonly 8 x 8 feet and up. He collects the posters at night, which seems like a dangerous thing to do, but he’s a big guy and didn’t seem to give a shit, just citing his birthplace as the Bronx.
Above: The Harlem Collage Shop from the street.
“Collage is all about collecting,” says Michael. I asked if the cops ever stopped him. Once, he said with: “Wudda you think you’re doing?” Anderson reminded them that street posters are illegal in NYC, so they told him it was OK, but he had to take all the posters.
This is a really awesome piece entitled “An Oscar for the Maysles Brothers.” They’re old-school documentary film makers who have a theater around the corner from the Harlem Collage Shop.
Teeming with life, his work seems to shift and stutter in the corner of your eye, hustling around, and dancing to reggae.
I love this lady! If you want to get the flavor of Anderson’s personality, read this in-depth interview with him on Bad At Sports.
Everyone loves M.J. I see this and I think of the good Jackson who was cool as hell. The background is made from Pepsi posters, bringing up the key moment when Jackson burned his head on pyrotechnics while shooting a soft drink commercial. The double and triple images are trippy. When looking at one part of the collage, the other sections feel alive because of the multiple, shifting, stretching images.
Here’s a work in progress. The white paper is the back of another poster. The finished works are made entirely from posters and Anderson’s secret glue formula. Michael said that the collages tend towards being six or seven layers thick.
Above: The view from the back of the studio, facing out towards the mean streets of Northern Manhattan (AKA Harlem). The collage of a house on blue paper in the center of the photo is by Christopher Nels Johnson, who started The Onion newspaper.
This is a detail of the collage technique. Check out the mini M.J. on the bottom left!
Inside the collage shop, you can see the handy work of a world-class scavenger: an archive of street posters going back 17 years is housed in two enormous wooden storage racks. Everything is sorted and organized; some by color, and some because they belong to a project planned for the future.
Anderson made two billboards for Target that were displayed in Times Square.
Anderson has around 40,000 graffiti stickers, which he used to make a museum of stickers at the Ace Hotel.
Anderson keeps color photocopies of the stickers in a binder, below. It was obvious that he really loves these stickers, and has a lot of respect for Graffiti artists.
“Her purple haze” (above) is currently on view in a group show at Marlborough in Chelsea..
Above: “American Dreams”
As I was walking out the front door, a random guy walked by in a mechanics outfit, and said “Hey Mike.” Anderson said hey back, and then said to me: “Vote for me, I’m the mayor of Harlem.”
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Stoked to stumble across the work of Jared Andrew Schorr today via Dropular. His papercut work on flickr under the guise of supercoolspyclub includes these awesome wallpapers… You can even buy some bits via etsy. Great stuff Jared!
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Dear “Psychedelic” Artists: It takes more than neon paint and a strategically placed black light to blow one’s mind. Just ask Larry Carlson, visionary multi media artist! I would describe Carlson’s work as Magritte and Dali’s love child if such a child were conceived after the advent of Photoshop. Beautiful yet jarring, welcoming yet otherworldly, Carlson’s work is a true feast for the eye.
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Melissa Murray is an artist from Brooklyn, NY. The themes in her paintings revolve aroud “images from past experiences or dreams.” Much of her work includes the metaphorical use of animals, which symbolize “sincerity in life, a seemingly degenerative trait in our current human consciousness. These creatures represent purity, and personify my dreams and fears for our collective future.”
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Título: “Extravagancia”-”Extravagance”.
Técnica: Collage (plástico en red y papel dorado) con cera fundida, gouache-témpera y pintura acrílica.
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Title: “Extravagancia”- “Extravagance”.
Technique: Collage (plastic net and gold paper) with melted wax, gouache and acrylic paint.
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Collages by San Francisco based multidisciplinary artist, Brion Nuda Rosch. From the Monuments are Figuratively Speaking and Jackson Pollock’s Drunk Face series.
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Artist and illustrator Alex Lukas has a fascinating portfolio that mixes all kinds of strange things like apocalyptic art collages and comic book style art and illustration. Just when you think you might have figured him out you click on something else and voila, more talent is exposed. You can also purchase some of his prints at Cantab Publishing.
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I like how UK based artist Anthony Zinonos plays with substitution- many of his pieces play with Minimalism and subject by playing off size, color and shape variations. I also like that something as simple as a triangle becomes the inspiration for a series. Anthony works alot with photo-collage but you can also find a few other media gems on his site, including a short video montage.
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