The illus­tra­tion of Jack Hud­son is really excit­ing to view. His work is an odd mix of real­ity and cre­ates a nice har­mony of dig­i­tal and hand-drawn elements. I enjoy the way Jack com­poses an image. In his work, they depict both strug­gles and joy, with char­ac­ters that are mostly of mon­u­men­tal pro­por­tion and engulf ...

When I was look­ing through the Flickr of Maria Man­tella, I was struck in the dif­fer­ence between her col­lage work and draw­ings. The feel­ings that are evoked by both are very dif­fer­ent. Maria’s draw­ings are dark and for­lorn; her col­lages, on the other hand, are much more jovial. I love Maria’s draw­ings for the care­ful ...

Upon first view­ing Ben­jamin Carr’s port­fo­lio web­site, you are pre­sented with a dilap­i­dated boards that are weath­ered with age; paint is peel­ing, wood has been chipped off, and a gen­eral malaise. I think this sets a tone for his work, indica­tive of his print portfolio. Benjamin’s work explores anonymity and found objects. He uses things ...

Bran­don McClean makes art as a means of escap­ing the often stress­ful and demand­ing world that he lives in. He intends to deper­son­al­ize him­self from his respon­si­bil­i­ties and cre­ate a world that allows him to engage with a dif­fer­ent cast of char­ac­ters and stories. Appro­pri­at­ing images is a large part of Brandon’s process. He uses ...

With col­lages rem­i­nis­cent of Paul Rand, Mar­cus Wal­ters has cre­ated some won­der­fully sim­plis­tic and beau­ti­fully com­pelling works by just a few shapes and colors. I like look­ing at Marcus’s work because it reminds me how you don’t have to have an overly com­pli­cated process to make some­thing that is mod­ern, fresh and aes­thet­i­cally pleas­ing. Some­times, ...

Form, col­lage, paper — all of these things are fea­tured on Andreas Banderas’s site. The Nor­we­gian artist seems to really dab­ble, not tied down to only work­ing in two dimen­sions — his web­site show­cases some instal­la­tion work as well. A con­stant in Andreas’s print work are his shapes. He is con­sis­tent across all media, and they ...

Michael Swaney is a Barcelona-based artist work­ing in draw­ing, col­lage, as well as some instal­la­tion work. When Michael does col­lage work, it is almost a visual over­load for me. The vibrancy of his col­ors paired with the mash up of images, painted papers, and other cut outs is a lot to take in. Michael’s work forces ...

Alexis Anne Macken­zie is an Amer­i­can artist work­ing in col­lage. Her port­fo­lio is com­prised of rearranged flower spec­i­mens and nature imagery that take the form of typog­ra­phy and other design-oriented compositions. The real­ism of the Alexis’s flower imagery imme­di­ately reminded me of Dutch flower paint­ings from the 17th and 18th cen­turies. Orig­i­nally, these paint­ings were ...

The col­lages cre­ated by Jason Rosen­berg use paper that’s been dis­carded, reused, and regen­er­ated into work that tells a story. I really like Jason’s selec­tion of papers — the inside of old envelopes, and “ordi­nary” papers, like fliers and legal pads. All his work is held together with scotch tape. There is some­thing fleet­ing about his ...

Lil­liana Pereira is a col­lage artist liv­ing and work­ing in Mass­a­chu­setts. Her col­lages are a recy­cling of imagery and a mas­ter­ful coor­di­nat­ing of shapes, col­ors, and photographs. Lil­liana must have an incred­i­ble library of books and mag­a­zines. By tear­ing, cut­ting, and match­ing, she cre­ates images that make sense, despite the fact that they are all ...