COLLAGE ON VIEW
Shawn Theodore at Paradigm Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA by 25 October 2024. In “A Race of Angels”, Shawn Theodore delves into the particular experiences of African American households, capturing a eager for misplaced pictures, lacking heirlooms, and vanished archives. Utilizing a mix of conventional portraiture, discovered pictures, paint, paper, pencils, and digital manipulation, Theodore creates archetypes representing hypothetical members of the family, non secular guardians, and ancestors. These boldly crafted archetypes inhabit an imagined macro-family album, providing a novel perspective on portraiture, connection, and group. Theodore’s work goals to deepen non secular connections and encourage private introspection. 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 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.