COLLAGE ON VIEW
Erika Lawlor Schmidt at The Hesterly Black in Waterbury, Vermont, USA by way of 20 December 2024. Erika Lawlor Schmidt’s work is in regards to the assimilation of statement and expertise of the physique, psyche and non secular life power, and discovering connections with the world round us. She most frequently works in “collection” arriving by way of a collage sensibility the place fragments, photographs and symbolic parts are built-in, fused, and layered in an effort to seize a momentary glimpse, thought or view. A view that originates in a perception she shares with Jap philosophies, in that the world is made up of a fancy internet of interrelating components, the place the division of nature into separate objects isn’t elementary, reasonably fluid and ever-changing in character, a view that accommodates time and alter as important options. Curated by Joseph Pensak. Learn Extra
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Kolaj Journal, a full colour, print journal, exists to indicate how the world of collage is wealthy, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing historical past and tradition, collage artists forge new considering. To grasp collage is to reshape one’s considering of artwork historical past and redefine the canon of visible tradition that informs the current.