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Some press for the Alterations, Disturbances and Rips exhibition:

Invurt

Just Another Agency

Spit Press…

Alterations, Disturbances & Rips

Opening night Thursday 15 December, 6-9pm

Exhibition continues to Sunday 18 December, daily from 12-4pm

“Collage” originally a French word, derived from the word coller, meaning “to paste” is an art form very much reflective of our omnipresent consumer culture and a compelling medium in…

I have been spending a bit of time lately editing and updating my website. I am still adding content, but I think it is starting to come together.

Please stop past and have a look at: http://www.joellambeth.com

The ‘Paste-Up’ is an ever-expanding and innovative form of street art, that involves an artist making their work onto varying sizes of paper and then applying it to walls and surfaces within their urban environment using wheat-paste or wallpaper glue.  Whether as black and white multiplied photocopies, colourfully hand painted murals or thought provoking text…

I don't mean the town in California.

Somewhere in the mist between sleep and waking I had a vision. It involved lace and fibers and paste... like old school wallpaper paste, molten wax and just a bit of paint... if necessary.

As soon as I get done with my chores, I'm going to give it a go! Pictures will, of course, be forthcoming.

Well, my studio is all unpacked after it's float across the Atlantic to New York and then on to the wilds of Upstate. On a clear day I can see to the Adirondack park from the end of my street. I have a cool barn and I keep finding really cool stuff in it.

I want to make it all into sculptures. Unfortunately I'm terrified. I have performance anxiety. So the downside of having been a professional artist on the festival circuit was that selling was important. It kills your creativity.…

Amazing Patience Art: If I tried doing this there would be blood everywhere and lots of crumpled wads of paper angrily thrown all over the floor!

http://flavorwire.com/229698/10-amazing-cut-paper-diorama-artists

Carving their way into the realm of fine arts thanks to pioneers like Kara Walker, paper dioramas aren’t just for elementary school projects anymore. Cut-paper art is an ambitious endeavor…

If you happen to be in the Huntington, NY area... exhibition on view through January 28, 2012

"Collage was the first medium in the twentieth century to challenge the sanctity of the age-old forms of painting and sculpture.  Derived from the French word "coller" (to glue), collage uses bits of torn and cut paper, sometimes taken from trash, to create a sense of dislocation,…

http://artphotogirl1.blogspot.com/2011/11/encaustic-paintings-from-archives-sold.html

I've not seen Kate Rivers' collage work in person, but would like to. Looks like it'd be worth a visit if you are in the area! Interesting work.

"Pastiche" exhibition information

Kate Rivers website

Do your pieces need to be disruptive to a space to be art?

I've been reading a book that deals a lot with post-modern thought in the context of animals in art. At one point an essay talks about Robert Rauschenberg's Monogramme:

There was a fairly long, tedious argument as to how this piece disrupted the space, forcing interaction with the viewer. As…

Art Assemblage Artist's Susan Spencer and Michael Wilson have just opened a new art gallery featuring assemblages and collages by various artists including collagist Via Keller.

This week at “The Beat” Via Keller’s collage works have been getting a lot of attention. Her masterful use of common imagery of our popular culture has surprised our visitors inviting much comment.

Via makes her home in Anderson Valley, and her illustrations have been seen on CD covers, t-shirts,…

Here's a link to a good article about the Kurt Schwitters exhibition on view at Princeton University Art Museum through June 26th, 2011. 

Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage marks the first major U.S.…

my submission:

the view from up here ... A Collage Collective of Seven Days at the Arch

Brooklyn Art Library til the 27th then on tour (check the website for U.S. locations)

Discovery Flight STS-133 is schedule for lift-off tomorrow,  02.24.11...I wish you all well!

I'm on STS-134 ... crew still in training!