These are some of my collages for the Enormous Tiny Art show at the Nahcotta Gallery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, which opens September 4th. I love working with collage and paint together. I usually include old photographs or use vintage postcards as a starting point for small collages like these, but this time I started with putting color on 8x8 stretched canvas. Then I added drawing. I'm doing more abstract drawing lately, but I usually end up making even that into something figural. I am always tryilng to convey gesture.
These are altered postcard collages I did a number of years ago. I made about 300 0f these and framed about 50 of them for a show in double layers of plexi (which is why these photos are not too sharp) so that the backs could also be seen since I worked both sides of each postcard. I decided to put them up here since I want to continue a few posts on collage. I have been thinking about this because of the film "How to Draw a Bunny" which I recently watched. It is about the life of Ray Johnson who was the "father of Mail Art" and made incredible collages. He considered his whole life a collage, and in fact some think he planned his own death as a collage.
