FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Los Angeles, California, USA. Jim Zver’s lengthy curiosity in collage has taken two totally different however associated instructions. One is paper collage, which is extra oriented in direction of portray and drawing considerations, and delicate transitions of coloration and tone. These collages typically indicate a third dimension turning into a form of sculpture themselves functioning in a two-dimensional house. The opposite path is painted wooden sculpture and reliefs, which he thinks of as a form of building/collage, assembled fairly than carved or molded. Each instructions contain making ready a “visible vocabulary” of types, each paper and wooden, altering their surfaces in numerous methods, after which discovering connections and relationships between them. That is essentially the most intuitive side of constructing his artwork. Learn Extra
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Kolaj Journal, a full coloration, print journal, exists to point out 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.