amanda briggs at dear ada

fripsmailart.

I'm loving the blog fripsmailart for collage and postage art.

sweet collage.

I'm so loving this sweet collage from gracie louise. Really wonderful!

sue blackwell diorama's.

Oh my goodness. The collage, bookcuts of sue blackwell are amazing. I can't say I've seen anything like them. Magical, fantastic, beautifully crafted. Really remarkable. Thanks to collagemania for this lovely find.

richey kehl collage.

My sweet husband put up some huge book shelves in our living room. Which we use as our dining room, and the small dining room as a cozy sitting room, but that's another story. The room he's put the shelves up in is enormous and I thought that a big set of shelves filled with all our art and design books would be cool. Well suffice it to say that they aren't filled yet, so I went through some shelves in the basement, to augment what I had already up there. Which was like Christmas in, well, early December. Like finding old friends I hadn't seen for a while and bringing them in from the cold. So fun!

Well one such friend that I hadn't seen for a while was this tiny little book, illustrated by the Seattle artist and retired art professor, richey kehl. I'd met him ages ago and he'd given me this lovely book featuring his wonderful collage work. Now that I think about it, I even had the pleasure of seeing a show of his work in Seattle, probably 20 years ago. His work was eye opening then, and as I sit here now from this vantage point, I realize how influential it was to me. Collage continues to be one of the most compelling art forms for me, in part I now realize, because of richey kehl's amazing work. It's very nice to find him again.

collage cover.

Have you seen the latest cover of wallpaper by alan fletcher? Is that fab-u-lous, or what!

perfect cards.

'nuf said. I LOVE these cards from binth's offspring, the result of which is a "collaboration" between the artist and her son. They are perfect.

sweet.

I found these sweet collages while surfing flickr.

igor ska.

Here's a wonderful collage by igor ska, thanks to collagemania. His collages are raw and smart. I really like them.

antonio puleo collage love.

One of my favorite pieces at the collage show I bathered on about below, was by the artist antonio puleo. I'd never seen his work before today, but wow, I plan to keep track of it in the future. It's so graphic, decorative, bold and modern. I totally love it!

the best collage show ever.

The absolutely breathtaking exhibit, a century of collage at the elizabeth leach gallery ranks as one of my top 10 favorites of all time. Wow! My only regret is that a catalog wasn't made to chronicle this skillfully curated show. Each piece featured is remarkable in it's own right, but it's the collective impact of the group work that took my breath away. From joseph cornell to jack pierson, kiki smith to antoinio puleo, robert motherwell to paul butler, this show truly lives up to it's name, beautifully framing up a century of collage from beginning to end. I have to admit that I actually left the gallery with tears in my eyes.

The image above is a detail from the jack pierson collage in the exhibit.