Connectivity between humans and nature seems so foreign in todays industrial society. Merve Özaslan is bringing back this long lost connection through beautifully edited photography. Superimposing colourful nature scenes with black and white city scenes, these photos call into question whether humanity is taking the beauty of nature for granted. Özaslan perfectly describes her intent on her Tumblr site,"It is…
Flowers go with everything. This appears to be Clare Celeste Börsch's motto when it comes to her collages, and you'd be hard-pressed to disagree. Börsch delightfully incorporates both the ordinary (birds, branches, and butterflies) and the unusual (water-skiers, hot-tubbers, stray hands) in her offbeat compilations. Born in Thailand, Börsch has lived in 5 different countries before finally settling in her…
Remember fold-ins? Popularized by Mad Magazine, a richly illustrated cartoon of one thing would ostensibly turn into something entirely different after folding the page left and back so that "A meets B." Eli Craven employs a similar technique with his project "Screen Lovers," to R-rated effect. The images are taken from a book with the same namewith stills of old Hollywood love scenes. In original form, the pictures might be sensual, but Craven magnifies the sexual undertones of the image by melding different photographs together.
Oddly Head doesn't take Hollywood too seriously. Iconic movie posters are tartly satirized, the original impact of the images replaced with a sinister tone. Dorothy seeking safe passage to a certain Swedish furniture store. Singing in the rain in a rough part of town. A subjugated Jaws. Oddly Head (not his real namethat would be Tim Fishlock) twists conventional tropes…
Julia Geiser likes animals. We think. They feature so prominently in her collages... but they're also often cross-sectioned. Cut in half, or a few times across the neck. Their faces used as masks, with some suspicious dripping along the sides. Before you call animal services though, just be aware that her human subjects get a similar treatment, and they too,…
With a simple splash of orange paint and crazy pink swirls, Elizabeth Amento's mixed media collages will make you forget all those dull winter days. Based in San-Francisco, the artist uses a variety of mediums to create surreal and colourful scenes of the domestic life. In her artist statement, Elizabeth says that she explores the ''relationships, between people, between colors,…
David Woodward is no stranger to controversy. Asked by his school to display an art project at a donors event, he was quickly asked to take it down once they saw what it involved: undergarments embroidered with enigmatic (and occasionally obscene) phrases. His collage series is no less provocative. Words seem to come up short when trying to describe it. Mystical? Eerie? Strange? Maybe all of the above. There's a theme in the elements he's usingthe images look like they could have come from a vintage nature reference book. But his skill is evident in how he brings these disparate objectslimbs, fungi, birds, insects, stones, and serpentsall together into a coherent work. Even though your skin might crawl for a second, you find yourself sticking around for another, because you need a better look.
We love Sadie Hennessy Splice and her conception of faux nostalgia for a time that never really existed... In August 2010 she won the Jealous Graduate Art Prize for her MA show at the Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in London, England. Splice was showcased in the exhibition More Strange Hunger at A Brooks Art in London.…
We love Joe Webbs sexy vintage negative space. In this series of romantic collages created by the British artist, we meet the invisible man or the ideal man- with a mysterious je ne sais quoi that is so alluring to women. Well appreciated by art lovers, Webbs images have become an online sensation and have been sold internationally. Visit…