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Encaustic Collages
For several years I've been experimenting with traditional collage techniques using various mixtures of beeswax and damar resin rather than glue. Encaustic Decoupage? These pieces may be on paper, wood, stone, leather, or antique book covers.
I'm interested in combining classical mythology, folk traditions (planting by signs, herbal medicine, animal lore) and the body in distress, but hope to avoid the schmaltz of faux-nostalgia (see artist's statement.) My work here is created using a scanner and Photoshop (though with as little digital manipulation as possible), but is then carefully printed on vintage paper, hand cut, and assembled on the carriers mentioned above.
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Book Covers
These pieces are all encaustic collages, but are made on antique book covers rather than wood panels. Sizes range from 3 x 5 inches up to 19 x 25 inches, and they may be leather, fabric, paper/board, or a combination. I prefer to use covers from books that are in bad enough shape that they aren't good for much else, but I will occasionally chop up a perfectly defenseless Grade A tome.
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Garden
These collages were created in 1994 as a wallbook, an artist's book intended to be hung in a series rather than bound and hand-held. This made up the bulk of my first solo exhibition, Garden, at New Visions Gallery in Atlanta. All are traditional collages on paper, 8 x 10".
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Trench
An abandoned wallbook from 1995-96. It is the story of 2 soldiers who meet in the trenches of WWI and become lifelong "companions". Originally intended as an installation to include WWI memorabilia, personal artifacts, family photos, etc, the idea was to combine the collage book and the collected items as a room-sized portrait of the 2 men and their life together. All are on vintage U.S. Army bristol board (WWII), 8.5 X 11".
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Cut & Paste Collages
Collages that don't yet fit into any other categories.
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Clumpositions
These were created on a very basic scanner/inkjet printer, simply printing one image over the other, with little or no Photoshop manipulation other than scaling and positioning.
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Garage Projects 2007
Installation views of my solo exhibit at Garage Projects, 261 Peters St, Atlanta, November-December 2007
A cavernous space about 20' wide by 60' long with 20' ceilings, large enough to swallow my work. I built the internal gallery from luan doors and hung trouble lights from the ceiling in the "octopus" arrangement seen below.
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Gallery Stokes 2008
Installation views of my 2nd solo exhibit, at Gallery Strokes in the Castleberry Hill Art District of downtown Atlanta. The show ran November 23 - December 22, 2009, under the gracious and talented direction of Dayna Thacker.
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