Freeform Compositions (and exercises in color).

On the cutting table

A few images of recent, small collages.  Making these works is an extremely organic process and they seem to be informed by the piles of paper, shapes and forms that accumulate around my studio.   

Studio view: Worked and Working

I have been consistently picking away at some new canvases.  With consideration for my palette, I have reduced the surfaces in extremely minimal collages and new approaches to content.  This image was captured right before a studio visit....on any other day, imagine paint jars littering the floor, paper scraps, and other obstacles.  

Cut and Paste

Constructed Histories I - Striated, mixed media collage, 10"x14"

Constructed Histories II - Blush, mixed media collage, 11"x15"

Constructed Histories III - Compressed, mixed media collage, 10"x14"

Constructed Histories IV - Red Field, mixed media collage, 10"x15"

Initially, this series was created in response to my collaboration with photographer Ah-ram Park.  We worked together on a series of photographs titled “Re-purpose” that depicted bundles of discarded billboards.  These collages are reactions to those photos and are created through an additive layering process, similar to how signs are installed.  I constructed paper spaces through cutting, pasting and tearing that created new passages of compressed structures.  I am intrigued by the imagery that peaks out from each bundle and how these elements are suggestive of their unexposed interiors.  Within these searches, I remain interested with how the hierarchy of language is influenced by the layering and concealing of abstract imagery.