Artist Holli Schorno creates collage works on paper using book clippings to construct hypothetical landscapes. The works are created out of biology and chemistry textbooks, old maps and encyclopedias, and other grade school note and work books. Despite the initial appearance of digital production, there isn’t anything digital about her work. The artist often selects her materials based on the content that appears on the[…..]
Currently on view at the Dobbs Gallery in Birmingham, Alabama are new fabric collages by Karin Olah. The Dobbs Gallery is a new space in Birmingham, devoted to showing work of established and emerging contemporary artists. The exhibition, titled Arrivals, cleverly marks the artist first solo exhibition with the gallery as well as a new body of work. Olah has gained a reputation in the[…..]
Currently showing at Braga Menendez Gallery in Buenos Aires is a solo exhibition of new work by Gumier Maier, entitled El Baile de las Cosas (“The Dance of the Things”). Maier made a name for himself in the 1990s with his geometrical sculptures, but has now transitioned to more ephemeral means of working. After retiring in the Parana River Delta, Maier began collecting the trash[…..]
Jesse Bercowetz has a huge mobile on display at The Happy Lion in Chinatown. His solo exhibition, which is the New York artist’s first on the West Coast runs until October 11th, flaunts several works, but the luminary piece– and the real reason for going– is the behemoth, nearly room-sized installation entitled The Pale Memory of Man. The roomy gallery space, usually noted for its[…..]
Craig Norton began his career in art by selling decorated flowerpots in front of nightclubs while working as a bouncer. This self taught artist now utilizes drawing, photography, and collage in his exploration of controversial issues in history, politics, and religion. Lacking any formal artistic training, Norton’s work has a sincerity that shuns conceptuality in favor of a more honest and direct approach. Norton’s exhibition,[…..]
Currently on view at the Cerasoli Gallery in Culver City, California is a double solo exhibition featuring Mario Wagner‘s Lost Art of Murder in Gallery One and Marco Cibola‘s A New Division in Gallery Two. Mario Wagner is a German artist and illustrator who is exhibiting a series of paper-collage canvases that employ traditional methods of collage and consequentially reference modernist qualities, yet they also[…..]
On May 10th, Cerasoli Gallery opened separate exhibitions by two artists working in different media: Andy J. Simmons’ photography exhibition Visions of Europe and collage artist Joshua Krause‘s Convince Me I’m on Fire will be shown in two gallery spaces. In Gallery One will be the work of Andy J. Simmons. Born in South East London, Simmons grew up learning to take photographs and to[…..]
