Showtime!
Here is a preview of what I will be exhibiting in “Paper Trails” at the Gallery at UTA (the University of Texas Arlington), opening Thursday, September 5th with a reception from 5:30 – 8pm.
The collages on exhibit are from various series that explore connections and relationships of color, line, shape and space within and between series. These relationships are often unexpected and lead to changes as the work develops.
I have previously blogged about specific groups (series) of collages and how I use layers on monotype prints, solar plate etchings, acrylic painting and marbled paper. The collage may include inked and printed stencil shapes, cut up found paper, marbled paper and pieces of repurposed collagraphs cut into various shapes. I often recycle early works (prints and photos) to use for cutout shapes.
The collages are on and of paper. Sometimes, words and phrases are added as in the “Fortune Cookie” series.
#1355 Take Nothing For Granted monotype, solarplate etching, sun print, collage 30x22_ 2019
#1356 Catching A Conversation monotype, solarplate etching, sunprint collage 30x22_ 2019
#1384 Happenstance 2021 suminagashi marbled paper, monotype collage 22x30_
#1385 Riddle Me This 2021 suminagashi marbled paper, monotype collage 22x30_
#1390 The One That Got Away monotype, sunprint, photo collage 25.5×19.5_ 2021
#1391 Breaking Loose monotype, sun print, photo collage 25.5×19.5_ 2021
#1403 Leave Well Enough Alone monotype, embossing, collage 22x30_ 2022
#1407 Cascade monotype, embossing, collage 22x30_ 2023
#1414 Fortune Cookie-Your Mind Is Creative, Original and Alert monotype w. pencil, collage 30x22_ 2023
#1415 Fortune Cookie-Big Journeys Begin With A Single Step monotype w. pencil, collage 30x22_ 2023
Some photographs from my “Underfoot” series are included in the exhibit. They present abstraction expressed in a different medium.
.Underfoot- Bentonville, AR 2014, 12×16, digital archival print
Underfoot-Portland, OR 2015, 12×16, digital archival print
Underfoot, Dallas, TX 2015, 12×16, digital archival print
I hope you’ll join me at the opening where you can explore the connections between the individual pieces and the relationship, over time, of one series to another.