I'm enamored with collage these days (another post coming soon). The above image contains all sorts of things that interest me: the color of old postcards, Texas kitsch, taxidermy, pets, iconic phrases inserted in unlikely locations, and so on. Check out more of Amber Ibarreche's work here.
Because it's that time of year when all I can do is post other people's art because I have no time to make my own AND mountains represent escape (and home and and and).
Beth Hoeckel, Cream
James Luckett, Kamakura Mountain, 2011
Lucia Ganieva, Dreaming Walls
Jeff McLane, From New Promise Land
Jeff McLane, From New Promise Land
Sherwin Tibayan, Best General View
Deborah Hamon, From North
Clay Lipsky, Between Here and Nowhere
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Werdgasschen, Zurich, 1966
Matthew Rose, Alone, 2009
Sonja Braas, Forces #32, 2003
"Cutting Edges: Contemporary Collage" exceeded all my expectations (thank you interlibrary loan). Here is a selection of birds and one tiger from this survey that was published earlier this year.
Emmanuel Polanco, La and Do, 2010
Dolan Geiman, Zerelda's Weathervane, 2008
Dolan Geiman, Field Guide Riverbank, 2008
Emmanuel Polanco, The Raven, 2009
Emmanuel Polanco, Le Tigre, 2009
Since I only now realized three of the above images were from Emmanuel Polanco, I went to his website and discovered even more bird collages! All the images below are from the link above.
Also check out Dolan Geiman's website (this image provides the bird and cat link).
I checked out Hannah Höch's Album that she created in approximately 1933. It consists of 114 pages and contains over 400 photographic illustrations from periodicals. She liked images of female nudes, cats, and children as they are the most commonplace photographs. She liked cats so much, I scanned all the pages with them.
From Gunda Luyken's essay: “She created associative contexts which, knowing the circumstances of her life, permit of very impersonal interpretations. Beyond this, her album is marked by purposely introduced ‘disturbance factors.’ One such conscious accent, for instance, is the head of an emu, set on a double page otherwise devoted entirely to cats.”
In case you were wondering (because I was), Album contains 18 domestic cats.
