Friday, October 19, 2007

Issue 4 of la colle, the collage zine, out now!


Issue 4 of la colle, the collage zine, is complete and now out!

If you would like to purchase an issue you can do so at http://www.juliejean.etsy.com/ for just $2!


Music is the theme of issue 4!

It is 2o pages of original music-themed collages by artists from California, Illinois, Oregon, North Carolina and Michigan, collage exhibit listings and reviews, a list of record album covers that were created with collage and random notes about collage related things.


The theme for the next issue is mentioned and it will be maps. More details to come. Collages welcome at any time contact my yahoo address juliejeanus.


Current and Upcoming Collage Exhibitions

Collage Exhibitions (published in Issue 4 of la colle, the collage zine)
Tricks or Treats The Art of Craig Bostick
Through November 4, 2007, Magpie, Somerville, MA http://www.magpiestore.com/news.html

Tony Swain
Through November 21, 2007, Venice Biennale http://www.scotlandandvenicebiennale.com/

Neither New nor Correct: New Work by Mark BradfordThrough November 25, 2007, Whitney Museum of Art www.whitney.org

Danny Lyon: Montage, Film, and Still PhotographyThrough December 2, 2007, Whitney Museum of Art www.whitney.org

States of Mind: Dan and Lia Perjovschi
Through January 6, 2008, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University www.nasher.duke.edu
Collage has been used by Dan Perjovschi in his series, Postcards from America, and by Lia Perjovschi in her timeline, Research File. General Timeline: From Dinosaurs to Google Going China, 1997-2006.

Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination
Through January 06, 2008- SFMOMA http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=264
Interactive website from previous installation at the Peabody Essex Museum http://www.pem.org/cornell/#

Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945Through January 13, 2008, Guggenheim http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/foto/foto_2.php
Previous venue website- http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/foto/preview.shtm
One of eight thematic sections is dedicated to photomontage.

Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy My Oppressor, My Love
Through February 3, 2008, Whitney Museum of Art http://www.whitney.org
While there is an element of collage in many of Walker’s works, the seventh slide caught my attention. http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/10/12/arts/20071012_WLAK_SLIDESHOW_index.html

Tony Fitzpatrick
October 21, 2007 - January 7, 2008, PS.1 http://www.ps1.org/ps1_site/content/view/308/102/

The Secrets of Glue: Exploring Collage and Assemblage
October 27 – December 16, 2007 (Scene) Metrospace, East Lansing, MI http://www.scenemetrospace.com/
Curated by this zine’s founder and includes the work 18 artists including Amanda Wyse, Joel Wyse, Liz Cohn and John Tanghe, whose work is also in this issue of la colle.

Cliff Evans: EmpyreanNovember 9, 2006 – January 13, 2007, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
http://www.gardnermuseum.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp
From their website: “Cliff Evans treats images like found objects, mined from the vast reference library that is today's Internet. His exhibition Empyrean is a digital polyptych with photomontage animation which recalls the form of 15th-century Northern European altar-pieces merged with contemporary advertising narratives.

Martha Rosler’s much discussed collage in WACK!: Art and the Feminist RevolutionFebruary – May 2008, PS.1 but for now visit LA MoCA’s website http://www.moca.org/wack/
More info about Martha Rosler’s photomontages http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E3DC1E30F937A15751C1A9629C8B63
More info about Rosler and images http://home.earthlink.net/~navva/photo/index.html

Victorian Photocollage
October 10, 2009 – January 3, 2010, Art Institute of Chicago http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/exhibition/VictorianCollage