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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY

Visualize Potential

Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Drawing inspiration from the realms of spirituality and psychedelia, David Van aims to create minimal and balanced surrealism where socio-political commentary can exist within an esoteric platform. Van hunts and collects vintage raw materials that include magazines, books, various found artifacts that strike his fancy, and anything else he can visualize potential in. MORE

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY

Stories Left Behind

Arlington, Massachusetts, USA. Kim Triedman loves old things: the milkiness of old paint, the stains and the ravels, the stories left behind. Most of her artwork involves found and recycled objects: old ledgers, receipts and certificates; graphs and architectural plans; newsprint and chicken-wire and laundry lines. The content of Triedman’s work tilts to the provocative, focusing on issues of gender expectations and historical and evolving perceptions of femininity and sexuality. MORE

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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FROM KOLAJ 34

Seeing The Possibilities, Seeing Red

“Seeing Red” by Heather Olker is a series of collages that employs a feminist discourse to confront the misogynistic imagery and narratives generated by high-end fashion photography. Natasha Chuk reviews Olker's work in Kolaj 34. She writes, "The work asks us to confront our overall apathetic and unconcerned acceptance of advertising messages and question the visual and narrative they impart to imagine other possibilities that restore the integrity and agency of objectified women." MORE

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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FROM KOLAJ 34

Scraps of Things

Jen Broemel approaches quilts as if they are collage. In 2016, she left the practice of architecture after her third child was born and took up sewing. “I was lucky to find groups of open-minded quilters to sew with and always felt freedom to explore the techniques I was learning in my own way. This is how I came to realize I was an artist.” A portfolio of Jen Broemel’s work appears in Kolaj 34. MORE

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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CALL TO ARTISTS

Cut-Out Pages for the World Collage Day Special Edition

Deadline: February 22, 2022. In honor of World Collage Day, Kolaj Magazine will issue a Special Edition of the magazine that features Cut-Out Pages and articles about the collage community. A Cut-Out Page is a selection of fragments that one can use to make a collage. The feature reflects artists’ styles and approaches to collage making and shows how artists select and organize fragments. People use the Cut-Out Pages to make collage. For instructions on how to make and submit a Cut-Out Page, visit the Call to Artists. MORE

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY

Simplicity & Power

London, United Kingdom. In Emily Marbach's collage, bits of paintings and prints are intermingled with found materials which enhances the texture of her work. Collage is a struggle for Marbach. She's been drawn to it for years and dedicated exclusively to it for at least the past five. But it wasn’t until her daily practice of it during COVID that she has been able to relax into the chaos it creates in her studio and find a route to its simplicity and power. MORE

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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COLLAGE BOOKS

Lock Done

by Musta Fior. Redfoxpress, 2021. This series of forty collages was made during confinement. It is a vision of this rather curious, sometimes difficult period, where many things were mixed up; in particular, information, which meant that there was only one thing left: a black-and-white broth, from which some notes of hope emerged, expressed by color. Lock Done is the 163rd in Redfoxpress' "C'est mon Dada" series. MORE

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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COLLAGE ON VIEW

Sugar & Spice

Marika Christofides at The Loudoun House in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, 20 January-24 February 2022. Using kitschy images of girls from 1950s and 60s print ephemera, Sugar & Spice transforms saccharine images of ideal girlhood into more complex beings, while at the same time evoking the contradictions around which women must conform themselves--contradictions which “infest” the foundations of our culture. MORE

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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