 "22 Footer" images of lips from fashion magazines cut and assembled with pins on a foam panel, 27 x 46 inches detail from "22 Footer" pieces used in "22 Footer" laid out in the studio Thank goodness lipstick comes in so many different shades! That thought must have been running through the mind of San Diego . . . → Read More: David Adey uses images of lips from fashion magazines to create pinned collages   "Point of the Arches" Acrylic and Collage on Wood Panel, 9×9" Artist Mary Iverson has a solo exhibition entitled Calamity now showing at the Shooting Gallery in San Francisco. Like spiders spinning webs over their prey, meshes of shipping containers are superimposed over scenic areas in America like Mount Rainier, the Yosemite Valley and Lake Ann. . . . → Read More: “Calamity” by Mary Iverson at the Shooting Gallery in San Francisco  "The Flow" oil on panel. 24 by 48 inches If you are feeling the need to be inspired by a painter, try visiting the quaint town of Larkspur, California, just north of San Francisco. Gallery Bergelli (in Larkspur) has an exhibition, “A Survey of Paintings,” which features fifteen new works “investigating notions of transcendence, moments in . . . → Read More: “A Survey of Paintings” by John McNamara at Gallery Bergelli in Larkspur, CA 
“Broken Faces” is a personal art project started by Tokyo-based illustrator and collage artist Takahiro Kimura. Since 1991, Kimura has been creating mixed-media portraits using collage to intentionally distort the facial features and head proportions as a means of conveying the “complicated nature of the human spirit.” This artist has an uncanny ability to capture the nuances of . . . → Read More: “Broken Faces” by Takahiro Kimura  Un-Masked II Hand Painted Acrylic, Spray Paint & Screen Inks + 5 Color Screen Print on Primed Belgium Linen, Tray Framed 64" x 42" Last weekend UK-based HUSH opened a show of his latest works at 941Geary in San Francisco. “New Works by Hush” bears the artist’s signature style and content: traditional Japanese geisha women enfolded . . . → Read More: New works by HUSH at 941Geary in San Francisco 
In the series “Everything Is Beautiful,” Hayley Warnham injects vitality into vintage photographs by collaging color into them. Following her “passion for old school photography,” she “explores the notion that beauty can be found even in the mundane.” I love the playful and . . . → Read More: “Everything Is Beautiful” by Hayley Warnham  (left) Vine with Moons and Red Sun, 2011 Paper collage with hole punch 38 x 30" (right) Brown Star (Toward Becoming a Compass), 2011 Paper collage 21.5 x 21.5" I love the delicate handcrafted feel of the work of Bay Area artist Lena Wolff, who currently has an exhibition at the Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, California. . . . → Read More: “Another Country” paper quilts by Lena Wolff at the Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, California 
One of the best things about taking walks in the evening is looking at the windows lit from within along my path. The television set, transparent curtains, decor on the wall, soft lighting make each window seem as individual as the people themselves living in those hidden spaces. French artist Anne-Laure Maison captures that feeling of . . . → Read More: Anne-Laure Maison collages photographs of windows in the night  "Morning Light" (detail) Who hasn’t been intrigued about the meaning of a bizarre dream? Minnesota based Sheila McNellis Asato, a certified embodied imagination coach (or dreamworker), has made a career out of studying those nocturnal dramas. A former 15-year resident of Tokyo, Asato developed the award winning Healing CollageSM process from Japanese collage therapy and Jungian . . . → Read More: Sheila Asato captures dreams in the book arts 
This fall the ModernBook Gallery in San Francisco has a wonderful show of digital art by Maggie Taylor. Taylor uses photographic still-life collages to build a surreal world which at first glance appears magical and whimsical, but upon further inspection speaks to the existence of a darker parallel universe. In Taylor’s dream-like world, lightning strikes twice, . . . → Read More: Digital artist Maggie Taylor at the ModernBook Gallery in San Francisco |
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