I first spoke of the work of Gina Daw­son when I saw it as part of a group show, Boundry Proof, at the Guest Spot Art Space in Bal­ti­more. She cre­ated these amaz­ing minia­ture funeral wreathes made out of paper. The text on the ban­ners were extracted from rejec­tion let­ters, which Gina had embroidered: Check­ing ...

Laura Gee intro­duced her­self to me, and upon vis­it­ing her web­site I found an illus­tra­tor who not only illus­trates, but cre­ates instal­la­tions and curates as well. Laura’s own work uti­lizes sim­ple, bold images and sup­port­ing text that’s often short and sweet. I espe­cially liked this one: Paper is also some­thing that Laura explores in the three-dimensional sense, ...

I love tex­tures, and that is a large part why I am so attracted to col­lage and hand crafted work. Paper just feels so good! The work of Eva Ver­meiren uses papers, line, brush strokes, and more to cre­ate non-representational pieces that study the mar­riage of line and paper. All images via her Flickr. Check out ...

Ear­lier this week I updated you on Nathalie Chikhi’s work, which utl­izies every­day objects in her sculp­tures and instal­la­tions. Work­ing in the same vein, Ana Bidart carves and cre­ates forms out of rolls of paper, foam, and wooden sticks. Ana’s work is uses both nat­ural and unnat­ural mate­ri­als, and what I find the more com­pelling ...

More col­lage today, this time by Hol­lie Chas­tain! Hollie’s work uti­lizes old text and weath­ered paper. I love the soft, roman­tic feel to these works, as Hol­lie plays with muted col­ors and sub­tle tones. Some of the text is not dis­torted and allows for read­ing. Hav­ing this vis­i­ble with the col­lage ele­ments plays into this grandiose ...

This is not the first time Jen Stark has appeared on Brown Paper Bag. It’s hard to not want to post about her more often. Her work is com­plex and beau­ti­ful, and since I first saw it in a stu­dent gallery at MICA, it’s only grown in scope and ambitiousness. If you ever have the ...

As I was pok­ing around on Aprile’s site, Not­pa­per, I came across the work of Nathalie Boutté. I was impressed by Nathalie’s use of paper as medium, which it does not fol­low my nor­mal con­ven­tions for it. Strips of dif­fer­ent papers are are cut out, lay­ered, some­times sculp­tural. I espe­cially like the tex­tural qual­i­ties that ...

Tom Moglu has been pretty pro­lific in his col­lage mak­ing. Each day he cre­ates col­lages out of bills, books, among other things, using a vari­ety of col­ors and papers. Tom’s Flickr set includes more than 130 col­lages, often arrang­ing them into small groups of five or six smaller col­lages. They look great as a set, ...

Annie Vought does some really inter­est­ing cut outs with paper. Using jour­nal entries, she manip­u­lates orig­i­nal text and draw­ings to cre­ate large-scale multi-layered pieces. I am espe­cially fond of the way Annie uses accent­ing lines to cut a hor­i­zon­tal plane. Design-wise, it cre­ates pock­ets of shapes and abstracts the let­ters even fur­ther. The light­ing of ...

Alexis Mann writes that paper “…is friendly to hold­ing the kind of sto­ries I tell in my paint­ings”. She enjoys how paper is portable, and pieces can be snipped and rearranged — how it is both frag­ile and resilient. This dual­ity that is present in paper is also present in the work of Alexis. Her ...