FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Easthampton, Massachusetts, USA. Louise Laplante’s collages are primarily based on free affiliation, utilizing classic periodical and guide pictures to create discrete worlds merging picture, coloration, and placement. They play with ideas and redefine actuality. Their components are mixed intuitively generally with an thought of what she desires to attain and generally simply letting the weather themselves drive the picture, one factor main to a different. There may be all the time one thing of a surrealist factor to collage, letting logic and actuality go. These pictures had been pushed both by the textual content in a selected factor or by the configuration of that factor. The outcomes are pictorial “desires”, bits of actuality recombined to supply a brand new free-form invented world. Learn Extra
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Kolaj Journal, a full coloration, 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 pondering. To know collage is to reshape one’s pondering of artwork historical past and redefine the canon of visible tradition that informs the current.