Solo Exhibition at Andis Wines

July 18 – October 17, 2022

Andis Wines, Plymouth, CA

Collage is for everyone! From a young age, we learn to cut up a magazine and use a glue stick to make flowers, landscapes and monsters and tell fantastic stories with paper. It the simplest and most basic form of image-making. The term collage originally comes from the French verb coller, meaning “to stick” and was first use to describe the work of Pablo Picasso when he started gluing paper and other materials to his paintings around 1912.

The collages presented here combine pictures of art historical works that I find in books, art catalogs, and magazines. Although the artwork appears abstract, if you look closely, you can see parts of paintings that come from artists like Rembrandt and Warhol. I select these collage elements for their historic interest, and also for the shapes, colors and textures that inspires him. Taking the small paper parts, I arrange and rearrange the shapes and lines to make surprising, lyrical and visually complex compositions. The organic shapes and textures that are starting to appear in the work reflect the rocky forms and subtle colors of the Sierra Foothills, where I now live.

These works, and many more smaller collages, can be found in the exhibition.