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Sorry for the late notice on this one, it's hard to keep on top of shows when they're happening all the time! If you're in Dallas Texas, be sure to check out the joint collage/polaroid show with work by Matt and Mary Emma Hawthorne (a personal favourite) at Bows and Arrows.

Featuring works by Dallas artists Matt Hawthorne and Mary Emma Hawthorne On view through February 19th, 2010!

Thought I would let you know about Eva Han's solo show going on right now in Dusseldörf, Germany (Jan 29 - Feb 19, 2010). I have always been a fan, and her new work is really something. Here's a review from her website:

Artist Eva Eun-Sil Han's work of poetry and geometry goes for a visceral response
By Lennie Bennett, Times Art Critic

Eva Eun-Sil Han definitely has both sides of her brain engaged. "Measured Emotions," an exhibition of her work at C. Emerson Fine Arts, has poetry and geometry at work. The artist collages photographs, her own and others, often drawing and painting onto the paper. Many of them seem purely abstract and in most, the assemblage of images is in such bits and pieces they don't seem meant to be discerned specifically. But Han is going for a visceral response from us (that's the "Emotion" part of the show's title), whether it's a response to the cut-and-paste drama of her constructions or the provocative glimpses of recognizable body parts. She doesn't give us any hints since all are untitled.

via Eva's website.

Upcoming collage show tonight if you're in Chicago—wish I was there to see this, I love Chad's retro-feeling collages. (Apparently there are over 50 new pieces!) Also congratulations on your first solo show, I know it will be a success!

Concoction
New Works by Chad Kouri
January 8-24, 2010

Chad Kouri is a stuff junkie, glue and adhesive enthusiast and a procrastinator. Chad spends most of his time in alleys looking for treasures to build out his found-art collages and illustrations. The rest of his time is spent writing emails to people he has never met and other things to pass the day. He is a member of Chicago art collective The Post Family. This is his first solo exhibit.

Opening Reception for Both Exhibits
Friday, January 8, 7-10PM
with music by DJ Sean Doe

Info via Rotofugi.

November 24, 2009 – December 18, 2009

The pursuit of truth, absurdity of morality and irony of inhibition is the content of {ths} new show ‘For All is Vanity’ and follows his ‘Trash urban warfare porn dirt style pop’ style. His new canvases are the continuation of his 'Gluebooks', a selection of sketchbooks containing collage and filled with handwriting, rawness, dirt & pornographic images. His new work feels like a gigantic resized version of his Gluebooks from paper to canvas. An enlargement both in size and insanity. Hail to the King, Baby.

®artspace Barcelona
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online: www.rojo-barcelona.com

Read our interview with Thomas Schostok {ths} here.

I don't usually post about my own work on Notpaper, but I don't think there is any harm in doing so to promote my first solo exhibit! If anyone is in Toronto this Friday, please stop by to meet me and to see my work in person (or come and check it out until November 12th. Read on for more information.

Entitled “The Royal Family”, this mixed media collage series was inspired by a pair of scrapbooks found at the St. Lawrence antique market filled with newspaper clippings of Queen Elizabeth and her family during the 1950's and 60's. Aprile's collages recreate the scrapbooks, changing the composition and adding materials to give each page a deeper meaning. All of these pieces are created on the actual scrapbook pages themselves, resulting in brittle and delicate collages which further the character and feelings of nostalgia in each piece.

Aprile had tried many different artistic mediums but her restlessness always led to back to collage work where she feels most comfortable. She loves assembling, disassembling, and rearranging the compositions as well as creating contradictions and versatile interpretations for viewers.

I had better post about this super collage exhibit before it is long over (it starts in a few days)! Cut & Paste is a collage exhibit put together by Edvard Derkert and has many friendly faces as participating artists, people you have read about along the way—and I hope to feature the new ones I've just learned about! If you are in Sweden, you must see this show!

Participants:
Maria Bajt / Sweden
Liz Cohn / USA
Edvard Derkert / Sweden
Fred Free / USA
Piotr Golonka / Poland
Eva Eun-Sil Han / Belgium
Sophia McInerney / Australia
Randy Mora / Columbia
Sandra Müller / Germany
Mia Mäkilä / Sweden
Eva von Platen / Germany
Vesna Pešić / Serbia
Px(c) / Canada
Kareem Rizk / Australia
Richard Russell / USA
Kate Stehr / Australia
Jan Stenmark / Sweden
Igor Skaletsky / Russia
Christer Themptander / Sweden
Woefoep / Netherlands
Gamze Özer / Turkey

More info on participants and links here...

There was also a little post card competition, sorry if I'm posting about it too late (I didn't even have time to submit my own!) I think this is a great way to integrate everyone into the show, really I like the idea. See all the submitted post cards here.

Sept 17th - Oct 10 2009
Cut & Paste — International Exhibition of Contemporary Collage and Assemblage
Galleri [KG52] Kammakargatan 52
Stockholm, Sweden. info@kg52.se

Open: Thursday - Friday 12–17
Saturday 12-16

If you have any questions, you can email: edvard@dad.a.se

Looks like there are some great new pieces from these artists and I wish I could go! I hope I can update with photographs later, so we can feel like we were there, haha...

Paper cuts is a group show opening at Little Bird Gallery in LA this weekend. What really caught my eye was the graphic—nobody knows paper cuts like we do, right? I thought it might include more collage artists than it does, but it does at least include one, Will Bryant. He's a student who has been guest blogging for poppytalk, and his work is pretty great. I've included some images below.

I'm glad that I attended the 6th annual Square Foot Show in Toronto yesterday, at AWOL Gallery (100 Ossington), because there were so many different styles and techniques on display. Including, an important one for this blog, collage! I was excited to see how many local collage artists there are, and now I find myself wanting to know more. This year was the biggest show ever, and I am definitely going to participate next year.

In the above images, #1 is by Alex Cirka, and #3 by Hyein Lee.

So here's a little review of what we saw. Sorry about not giving credit where credit is due, but the list I wrote of the artists was misplaced today. (So if you are one of the artists of these fantastic collage works, feel free to let me know).