KOLAJ INSTITUTE NEWS
How will we reconcile disparate identities and nurture an entire sense of self? Within the exhibition, “Temporal Geolocation,” Paula Mans, T. Owens Union, Candace Caston, and Jeanna Penn draw on historical past and a way of place to make collage artwork that speaks to id. The art work of Jeanna Penn (a element of art work featured right here) Jeanna Penn makes use of photographs from archives and located historic photographs to inform tales of Blackness within the diaspora. Utilizing images from the Twenties of a Black neighborhood in Buda, Texas that she present in an Austin vintage store, We Three Queens and Sending Love, Looking for Mild from her “New Girls” sequence rejoice “the garments, homes and automobiles [that] spoke of an prosperous Black neighborhood that not exists.” The semi-abstract, monochromatic collage within the sequence “This Is America” invite us to think about what has and hasn’t modified within the historical past of Black life within the nation. The exhibition runs by 24 November 2024. The gallery is open Thursday by Saturday from Midday to 6PM. READ MORE
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Kolaj Journal, a full shade, 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.