Dawn Gard­ner, a recent graphic design grad­u­ate, uses dig­i­tal col­lage and a clean use of typog­ra­phy to com­pose images that have sev­eral dichotomies to them. Com­po­si­tions are both struc­tural yet play­ful. They are abstract in their arrange­ment, but com­prised of pho­tographs. There is both focus and diffusion. There is a cer­tain amount of ease with ...

I first saw this by Aarón Julian, and was a bit terrified: With no skin and an eye intact, my mind fills in the blanks to make sense of that image. Other col­lages by Aarón use some ele­ment of the human that’s been sub­tracted and/or mis­placed. It really shows that small things, such as sim­ply ...

Vir­gina Whipple’s col­lages are 100% ana­log. They use pho­tographs, col­ored paper, and strate­gi­cally placed cuts. Virig­inia has dif­fer­ent ways in which she uti­lizes the pho­to­graph in her work. Some­times, ele­ments of a pic­ture are extracted for their color and tex­ture. Other times, the pho­to­graph itself is kept nearly intact, but frac­tured by small­est cuts and ...

Jacob Whib­ley cre­ates col­lages and sculp­tures, some­times sculp­tural col­lages. Made out of paper ephemera and wood, I love the com­bi­na­tion when the two are paired. It feels like an inte­rior of minia­ture pro­por­tions, some­times a cross-section of of a world. All images via his web­site. Addi­tional pho­tos on his Flickr. ...

While breez­ing through my Pin­ter­est over the week­end, I saw a pin by Jen Collins fea­tur­ing the work of Ash­lie Chavez. Struck by the meticulously-arranged col­lage with its rec­og­niz­able ele­ments, I stopped to take a longer look at the pair­ings and rela­tion­ships within her pieces. Many of her com­po­si­tions move in a cir­cu­lar pat­tern and ...

Do you work in col­lage? I do! Recently, Steven Rid­dle and I traded our scraps and made work that merges both of our papers. It was a lot of fun and a good chal­lenge to apply the way you typ­i­cally work with some­body else’s sensibilities. So, my ques­tion to you col­lage artists out there (all ...

ESH is an artist from Bosnia and Herze­gov­ina who is cur­rently work­ing in street art and dig­i­tal col­lages, in addi­tion to instal­la­tion work. I love the giant rug that’s been dis­played out­side of the build­ing. The oppo­site of where it should be! It’s a nod to the giant bear rugs that accom­pany cozy, fire-lit set­tings. Again, ...

The work of Tim­o­thy Karpin­ski was some­thing that I had seen long ago and admired, and this past week­end Steven reminded me of his sub­lime and very per­sonal works. Tim­o­thy is rep­re­sented by the Together Gallery in Port­land Ore­gon, and the works there revolve around a hand­ful of char­ac­ters. What I like about Timothy’s work is ...

I am ter­ri­bly behind in look­ing at sub­mis­sions and look­ing through all of the awe­some works on Brown Paper Bag’s Flickr pool. For that, I am sorry, every­one! I know there is some great stuff I am miss­ing… such as the col­lab­o­ra­tion between Jesse Treece and Jef­frey Meyer (aka Goof­but­ton). Jesse explains, “Jef­frey had a ...

Steven Riddle’s stu­dio is one after my own heart. The Baltimore-based artist is cur­rently in his sec­ond year of the Tow­son MFA pro­gram. Upon enter­ing his space, I was greeted by paper, color, and col­lage works. It was a bit over­whelm­ing (as col­lage stu­dios can be… so may scraps!) but I loved see­ing the nuts ...