“Organizing chaos is the main task of any collage artists,” he remarked once in an interview with Another Fine Mess. “From millions of possible images (a universe of chaos), we decide to use only a few and combine them in a particular way to make our discourse visible through them.” Tuja defines collage artists in somewhat poetic language, describing them as “editors of reality and builders of new worlds”. “We are twisting the world we know to make a new one come to life,” he says.

Originally from Buenos Aires, since 2002 he lives and works from Barcelona, but his work has reached further than that, showcased in galleries in Barcelona, London, Madrid, New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Rotterdam, Rome, and Lima, to name a few. He has also collaborated with brands as big as Nike, Wired Magazine, Spotify, and Universal Pictures.

Aside from his commercial work, Tuja is also a founding member and director of The Weird Show, showcasing in exhibitions, internet and printed matter the most outstanding contemporary collage worldwide.

Here are some highlights from his Instagram page:

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“I do feel very lucky that I get to make art for a living,” remarked Eckman-Lawn in an interview with Beautiful Bizarre, “and on days where it feels hard, I like to remind myself how much I’d rather do this than anything else.” His work, meticulous in its very nature, is composed of original digital paintings, imagery from old medical texts, and other vintage ephemera.

“Sometimes I have a clear idea in my head,” explained Eckman-Lawn, relaying the creative process that goes on behind the scenes, “and then it’s just a matter of finding the right images or painting what I need until it looks right. That can be really painstaking but occasionally it all just comes together cleanly.”

With his process also based on intuition (arranging and then rearranging the images), Eckman-Lawn admits he sometimes finds himself driven to work. “Sometimes I have to drop whatever I’m doing and start working right away if I find something too perfect to ignore,” he says. “That feeling is just the best, and a good way to describe the act of collage in general. It’s like being a curator and a designer and an artist all at once.”

Below you’ll find a selection of his work:

The post Peek Inside Alex Eckman-Lawn’s Collages appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I consider collage a language,” wrote Voelker in a piece published on Artsy Shark, “and find interest in how individual pieces come together to convey a story.”

With charcoal, Voelker developed a process that fixes the charcoal to paper so as to ensure its reliability. The drawings are then cut and arranged, layer after layer until a finished work emerges. With printmaking, on the other hand, Voelker uses ink or paint, after which he cuts and collages his prints into complex layers with intersecting lines and spaces.

In total, his collage process oscillates between quick improvisational moves and carefully planned revisions. According to Voelker, his work involves an improvisational process of placing the pieces on a board, then arranging them as he sees fit. “I rarely have a preconceived idea of what to make,” he says. “Rather, I let the pieces show me how they want to be arranged.”

The result is often striking: deformed faces formed out of cut out pieces, and a universe that’s dictated by chaos. Here are some of his more recent pieces.

The post Daniel Voelker’s Collage Art is an Experimentation of Sorts appeared first on TettyBetty.

Often her paper cuttings are arranged to reveal a female face, which often acts as a reflection of the natural and sometimes magical world. McCann’s female subjects are surrounded (and more often than not, engulfed) by birds, fish, and butterflies or submerged in a dense wallpaper pattern which either represents their prison or their liberation, depends on your interpretation.

The materials composing McCann’s images are collected from books, prints, and pages that are antique, forgotten, and foxed with age. “I cut out images, categorize them and then eventually piece them together like a complex paper jigsaw,” she writes on her website.

Originally from England, where she went to fashion school, McCann returned to her art studies after moving to the US with her family. It was then that she became fascinated with collage art—a passion that would blossom some time later into a career.

The post Fall Down the Rabbit Hole With Katie McCann’s Collage Art appeared first on TettyBetty.

A hybrid of Surrealism and Pop-Art, her finished pieces reflect her love for pop culture and Hollywood glamor, incorporating into her work anything from vintage Hollywood to 1970s sci-fi, B-movies, and trash TV. Through Rivans’ creative alteration, new film plots and narratives come to be, and an alternative, mashed up universe of sorts, begins to form.

Rivans suggests that her use of collage reflects the complex and fragmented world from which her art arises. But according to her, her attention to beauty and to the harmony of composition gestures optimistically towards the social capacity to piece it back together again.

Ranging in theme and in size, her artwork can take months to complete, as she assembles the cut-out fragments and scraps, laboring over long periods, and making alteration after alteration. But with hundreds of fans both online and offline, her hard work seems to have paid off.

The post Enter the Mashed Up Universe of Maria Rivans appeared first on TettyBetty.

But though his background is in painting, his passion lies in collage making. Like most passions, it was discovered by chance. “I ended up doing collage out of circumstance,” he wrote in a piece published on Artsy Shark. “I am lucky to have a good studio, but in the winter months it is so cold in there that I wanted to find a way of working at home in the evenings, but without destroying the house with paint.”

His solution was collage art. “I had a pile of old magazines so I began cutting them up,” he recalls. “Since then they have been growing larger and more experimental, getting freer with the knife each time and trying to treat them in my mind as paintings or drawings.”

He hasn’t looked back since. His artwork is a colorful (sometimes overly-colorful) exploration of textures and shapes, forming eye-popping images out of paper cuttings. “I love the exploration involved with collage work,” says Bremer. “The pictures work on the first level as a portrait, but then you can move closer to explore and read the information within it,” he explains.

Take a peek at some of his work in the gallery below.

The post The Eye-Popping Collages of Patrick Bremer appeared first on TettyBetty.

In these circumstances, his artistic style was formed. Jump forward some years later, and with more than 20k fans on Instagram, Geiman is well on his way to artistic stardom. Previously employed as an Interpretive Naturalist for the USDA Forest Service, Geiman seeks to combine his interests in art-making with his studies of biology and American history.

Multilayered and rich in narrative, his artwork weaves tales of foregone eras and untamed wilderness in an attempt to reignite his viewers sense of adventure and wonder for the rugged American landscape. These narratives are formed out of found materials that include anything from reclaimed wood and salvaged metal to vintage papers.

“I like to spend time reminiscing on the past while flipping through the pages of decades forgotten magazines, intently searching for the perfect shape, color, or texture within a periodical’s pages to add to my archive of collage elements,” says Geiman. His pieces include elaborate paper collage portraits of classic American icons, as well as a plethora of mixed media works, with each piece taking anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to complete.

We recommend you follow his creative journey through Instagram.

The post Something Old, Something New: Dolan Geiman’s Mixed-Media Art appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I try to inflict what amuses me onto my work,” explained Clark in an interview with Zoneone Arts. “I prefer the pieces to have different levels, and allow shadows to play within them,” he says. “Less boring and predictable that way, I don’t like things to be too worked out, I am not interested in that type of thinking.”

His papers include vintage collections, which he uses as a sort of palette with which he “paints” his collages with. The pieces of paper are chosen for their colors, patterns, and textures, made by their printed, written or worn surfaces. He also clever ways to include old maps in his designs, using their linear qualities to “draw” the image he wants. “They are so versatile, can be very specific or used in an abstract way,” says Clark. “I love them, they enable one to instantly play and change scale!”

Each collage is made of the assembled pieces of paper which are ranged in order to achieve colors or scales. Clark then tears, cuts, and folds the paper, gluing it down when the composition feels right. “If it works… great, If not start again making changes till I’m ok with it,” he says.

You can follow his work online via Instagram.

The post The Quirky, Wonderful Collage Art of Peter Clark appeared first on TettyBetty.

Born in Baltimore, and based in Brooklyn, New York, Adams’ art is relevant and thought-provoking, exploring the ways in which African American experiences intersect with art history, American iconography, and consumerism. “I’ll always admire black American artists before me who maintained a steady practice, even when no one was giving them the coverage they deserved,” he once said in a conversation with Interview Magazine.

Treating his art as a form of therapy, his pieces are often layered – a collage not only of images and materials but also of different types of sensory experiences. “When I’m in a space that has restraints, or conditions that will not allow me to operate in the way that I operated last week, I think of the work not as art-making, but as a form of therapy,” he stressed.

And as his art grows so does his focus shift. “As the work becomes more stable, I move on to something else,” says Adams. “I want to be immersed in what I’m doing, and when you’re unfamiliar with it, you become more present.”

Check out some of his work in the gallery below.

The post Derrick Adams Treats Art-Making As a Form of Therapy appeared first on TettyBetty.

Her paintings and collages are striking if nothing else. Revolved around the eyes, her subjects seem to gaze intensely at the viewer – a gaze which might result in a feeling of uneasiness. Typically embracing the black figure, her works explore ideas about representation, perception, and identity creation.

But according to Hassel: “the work is beyond me, I can’t claim myself as the source for it. I’m just the vessel.” Based in China, Hassell received her BS from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2013. Forever inspired by the world around her, she has showcased her work in Bermuda and China.

“It’s an honor for me to create this work,” she writes on her website. “I’m doing what I’ve been called to, and for that, I’m grateful.” Take a look at some of her artwork below:

The post Gherdai Hassell’s Portraits Are Unique as They Are Intense appeared first on TettyBetty.

“Organizing chaos is the main task of any collage artists,” he remarked once in an interview with Another Fine Mess. “From millions of possible images (a universe of chaos), we decide to use only a few and combine them in a particular way to make our discourse visible through them.” Tuja defines collage artists in somewhat poetic language, describing them as “editors of reality and builders of new worlds”. “We are twisting the world we know to make a new one come to life,” he says.

Originally from Buenos Aires, since 2002 he lives and works from Barcelona, but his work has reached further than that, showcased in galleries in Barcelona, London, Madrid, New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Rotterdam, Rome, and Lima, to name a few. He has also collaborated with brands as big as Nike, Wired Magazine, Spotify, and Universal Pictures.

Aside from his commercial work, Tuja is also a founding member and director of The Weird Show, showcasing in exhibitions, internet and printed matter the most outstanding contemporary collage worldwide.

Here are some highlights from his Instagram page:

The post Max-o-matic Continually Experiments with Collage Art appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I do feel very lucky that I get to make art for a living,” remarked Eckman-Lawn in an interview with Beautiful Bizarre, “and on days where it feels hard, I like to remind myself how much I’d rather do this than anything else.” His work, meticulous in its very nature, is composed of original digital paintings, imagery from old medical texts, and other vintage ephemera.

“Sometimes I have a clear idea in my head,” explained Eckman-Lawn, relaying the creative process that goes on behind the scenes, “and then it’s just a matter of finding the right images or painting what I need until it looks right. That can be really painstaking but occasionally it all just comes together cleanly.”

With his process also based on intuition (arranging and then rearranging the images), Eckman-Lawn admits he sometimes finds himself driven to work. “Sometimes I have to drop whatever I’m doing and start working right away if I find something too perfect to ignore,” he says. “That feeling is just the best, and a good way to describe the act of collage in general. It’s like being a curator and a designer and an artist all at once.”

Below you’ll find a selection of his work:

The post Peek Inside Alex Eckman-Lawn’s Collages appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I consider collage a language,” wrote Voelker in a piece published on Artsy Shark, “and find interest in how individual pieces come together to convey a story.”

With charcoal, Voelker developed a process that fixes the charcoal to paper so as to ensure its reliability. The drawings are then cut and arranged, layer after layer until a finished work emerges. With printmaking, on the other hand, Voelker uses ink or paint, after which he cuts and collages his prints into complex layers with intersecting lines and spaces.

In total, his collage process oscillates between quick improvisational moves and carefully planned revisions. According to Voelker, his work involves an improvisational process of placing the pieces on a board, then arranging them as he sees fit. “I rarely have a preconceived idea of what to make,” he says. “Rather, I let the pieces show me how they want to be arranged.”

The result is often striking: deformed faces formed out of cut out pieces, and a universe that’s dictated by chaos. Here are some of his more recent pieces.

The post Daniel Voelker’s Collage Art is an Experimentation of Sorts appeared first on TettyBetty.

Often her paper cuttings are arranged to reveal a female face, which often acts as a reflection of the natural and sometimes magical world. McCann’s female subjects are surrounded (and more often than not, engulfed) by birds, fish, and butterflies or submerged in a dense wallpaper pattern which either represents their prison or their liberation, depends on your interpretation.

The materials composing McCann’s images are collected from books, prints, and pages that are antique, forgotten, and foxed with age. “I cut out images, categorize them and then eventually piece them together like a complex paper jigsaw,” she writes on her website.

Originally from England, where she went to fashion school, McCann returned to her art studies after moving to the US with her family. It was then that she became fascinated with collage art—a passion that would blossom some time later into a career.

The post Fall Down the Rabbit Hole With Katie McCann’s Collage Art appeared first on TettyBetty.

A hybrid of Surrealism and Pop-Art, her finished pieces reflect her love for pop culture and Hollywood glamor, incorporating into her work anything from vintage Hollywood to 1970s sci-fi, B-movies, and trash TV. Through Rivans’ creative alteration, new film plots and narratives come to be, and an alternative, mashed up universe of sorts, begins to form.

Rivans suggests that her use of collage reflects the complex and fragmented world from which her art arises. But according to her, her attention to beauty and to the harmony of composition gestures optimistically towards the social capacity to piece it back together again.

Ranging in theme and in size, her artwork can take months to complete, as she assembles the cut-out fragments and scraps, laboring over long periods, and making alteration after alteration. But with hundreds of fans both online and offline, her hard work seems to have paid off.

The post Enter the Mashed Up Universe of Maria Rivans appeared first on TettyBetty.

But though his background is in painting, his passion lies in collage making. Like most passions, it was discovered by chance. “I ended up doing collage out of circumstance,” he wrote in a piece published on Artsy Shark. “I am lucky to have a good studio, but in the winter months it is so cold in there that I wanted to find a way of working at home in the evenings, but without destroying the house with paint.”

His solution was collage art. “I had a pile of old magazines so I began cutting them up,” he recalls. “Since then they have been growing larger and more experimental, getting freer with the knife each time and trying to treat them in my mind as paintings or drawings.”

He hasn’t looked back since. His artwork is a colorful (sometimes overly-colorful) exploration of textures and shapes, forming eye-popping images out of paper cuttings. “I love the exploration involved with collage work,” says Bremer. “The pictures work on the first level as a portrait, but then you can move closer to explore and read the information within it,” he explains.

Take a peek at some of his work in the gallery below.

The post The Eye-Popping Collages of Patrick Bremer appeared first on TettyBetty.

In these circumstances, his artistic style was formed. Jump forward some years later, and with more than 20k fans on Instagram, Geiman is well on his way to artistic stardom. Previously employed as an Interpretive Naturalist for the USDA Forest Service, Geiman seeks to combine his interests in art-making with his studies of biology and American history.

Multilayered and rich in narrative, his artwork weaves tales of foregone eras and untamed wilderness in an attempt to reignite his viewers sense of adventure and wonder for the rugged American landscape. These narratives are formed out of found materials that include anything from reclaimed wood and salvaged metal to vintage papers.

“I like to spend time reminiscing on the past while flipping through the pages of decades forgotten magazines, intently searching for the perfect shape, color, or texture within a periodical’s pages to add to my archive of collage elements,” says Geiman. His pieces include elaborate paper collage portraits of classic American icons, as well as a plethora of mixed media works, with each piece taking anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to complete.

We recommend you follow his creative journey through Instagram.

The post Something Old, Something New: Dolan Geiman’s Mixed-Media Art appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I try to inflict what amuses me onto my work,” explained Clark in an interview with Zoneone Arts. “I prefer the pieces to have different levels, and allow shadows to play within them,” he says. “Less boring and predictable that way, I don’t like things to be too worked out, I am not interested in that type of thinking.”

His papers include vintage collections, which he uses as a sort of palette with which he “paints” his collages with. The pieces of paper are chosen for their colors, patterns, and textures, made by their printed, written or worn surfaces. He also clever ways to include old maps in his designs, using their linear qualities to “draw” the image he wants. “They are so versatile, can be very specific or used in an abstract way,” says Clark. “I love them, they enable one to instantly play and change scale!”

Each collage is made of the assembled pieces of paper which are ranged in order to achieve colors or scales. Clark then tears, cuts, and folds the paper, gluing it down when the composition feels right. “If it works… great, If not start again making changes till I’m ok with it,” he says.

You can follow his work online via Instagram.

The post The Quirky, Wonderful Collage Art of Peter Clark appeared first on TettyBetty.

Born in Baltimore, and based in Brooklyn, New York, Adams’ art is relevant and thought-provoking, exploring the ways in which African American experiences intersect with art history, American iconography, and consumerism. “I’ll always admire black American artists before me who maintained a steady practice, even when no one was giving them the coverage they deserved,” he once said in a conversation with Interview Magazine.

Treating his art as a form of therapy, his pieces are often layered – a collage not only of images and materials but also of different types of sensory experiences. “When I’m in a space that has restraints, or conditions that will not allow me to operate in the way that I operated last week, I think of the work not as art-making, but as a form of therapy,” he stressed.

And as his art grows so does his focus shift. “As the work becomes more stable, I move on to something else,” says Adams. “I want to be immersed in what I’m doing, and when you’re unfamiliar with it, you become more present.”

Check out some of his work in the gallery below.

The post Derrick Adams Treats Art-Making As a Form of Therapy appeared first on TettyBetty.

Her paintings and collages are striking if nothing else. Revolved around the eyes, her subjects seem to gaze intensely at the viewer – a gaze which might result in a feeling of uneasiness. Typically embracing the black figure, her works explore ideas about representation, perception, and identity creation.

But according to Hassel: “the work is beyond me, I can’t claim myself as the source for it. I’m just the vessel.” Based in China, Hassell received her BS from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2013. Forever inspired by the world around her, she has showcased her work in Bermuda and China.

“It’s an honor for me to create this work,” she writes on her website. “I’m doing what I’ve been called to, and for that, I’m grateful.” Take a look at some of her artwork below:

The post Gherdai Hassell’s Portraits Are Unique as They Are Intense appeared first on TettyBetty.