Inspired by graffiti, urban decay, and music, Voelker experiments with his source material, challenging our ideas about collage art. “I developed a process to fix the charcoal to paper to ensure its reliability as a medium for collage,” he explains. “The drawings are cut and arranged, layer after layer until a finished work emerges.”

With printmaking, Voelker first makes the prints with ink or paint, after which he cuts and collages them into complex layers with intersecting lines and spaces. According to him, this work involves an improvisational process of placing the pieces on a board, then arranging them as he sees fit.

Some of his work consists of white ovals or circles framing them (which are also collaged). According to Voelker, these ovals represent portals, through which the viewer is invited to look inside and catch a glimpse of something on the other side.

“I consider collage a language,” he says “and find interest in how individual pieces come together to convey a story.” Take a closer look:

The post Daniel Voelker is Fluent In the Language of Collage Making appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Much like her creations, her approach to collage making is rather unique. Intertwining different film and TV genres – from vintage Hollywood to 1970s sci-fi, B-movies, and TV trash – Rivans’ work is in a constant dialogue with cultures of the past, reinventing existing film plots and narratives while spinning bizarre and dreamlike tales.

Like most collage artists, her process begins with an extensive collection of vintage ephemera, which she scavenges from antique books and retro magazines. Like piecing together an unruly jigsaw puzzle, Rivans begins to collate and assemble the cut-out fragments and scraps, laboring over long periods and making alteration after alteration, until the collage begins to take shape.

Her use of collage might reflect the complex and fragmented world from which her art arises, but an attention to beauty and to the harmony of composition gestures optimistically towards the social capacity to piece it back together again.

Rivans’ work takes the form of both large-scale originals and limited edition prints. Each of her artworks is the product of months of careful deliberations and decisions, every tiny tweak necessary in the final formation. The result – whether big or small – is well worth following.

The post Surrealism Meets Pop-Art: Follow Collage Artist Maria Rivans appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“I decided on the medium of collage because I didn’t have money to buy ‘proper’ supplies like fancy brushes or even canvas when I first started out,” he admits on his website. “The paper I used then and still use today comes from abandoned spaces – old farmhouses, burned down buildings, abandoned gas stations, and the like.”

Multilayered and rich in narrative, his artwork weaves tales of foregone eras and untamed wilderness in an attempt to reignite our sense of adventure and wonder for the rugged American landscape. “I grew up on a farm, caught crickets and bailed hay, painted with mud, dug up civil war relics, listened to midnight mockingbirds,” he writes. “These are the ingredients of life that have stuck with me and have built the foundation for the artwork I set forth into the world.” 

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. Inspired by his longstanding fascination with the flora and fauna of his native Shenandoah Valley, country-western iconography, and folk and agrarian traditions, his expansive portfolio includes large-scale faux-taxidermy wall sculptures, elaborate paper collage portraits of classic American icons, and Animalia, as well as a plethora of mixed media works.

Handcrafting each work from an array of materials he’s been salvaging and collecting since I was a child, one single collage piece can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to complete. “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,” he says.

Follow his Instagram page for more:

The post Dolan Geiman Reuses Found Materials In Unique Ways appeared first on PlayJunkie.

The creative process itself is relatively simple, if messy: arranging his found paper in order to achieve colors or scales, then tearing, cutting, and folding the pieces and gluing them down. “If it works… great, If not start again making changes till I’m ok with it,” said Clark in an interview with Zoneone Arts.

Amongst his materials are old maps, which he uses “for color reasons, for information or joke reasons”. “I use the linear qualities within them sometimes to ‘draw’ with,” explains Clark, “they are so versatile, can be very specific or used in an abstract way. I love them, they enable one to instantly play and change scale!”

But another, equally important ingredient in his work is humor. “I try to inflict what amuses me onto my work,” he says. “I prefer the pieces to have different levels, and allow shadows to play within them,” he adds. “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.”

Here are some of his more unique creations:

The post Peter Clark’s Collage Art Is Full of Spunk appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“I always loved painting and I grew up in a very artistic family, my father being a painter and art teacher,” he explained in a piece he wrote for Artsy Shark. “I also remember being really influenced by seeing lots of the old Derek Riggs Iron Maiden album covers when I was little, as my sister was seeing a guy who was obsessed with them – the color and imagery in those was like nothing I’d ever seen before and has remained a pull to art ever since for me.”

But though his roots were in classical painting, his creative path eventually took him to collage art.”I ended up doing collage out of circumstance,” he admits. “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. I had a pile of old magazines so I began cutting them up and the first one I finished was of my nephew (George). 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.”

What began as a playful experimentation with an old pile of magazines would soon turn into a full-time gig. “I love the exploration involved with collage work,” says Bremer. Some of his pieces within each work are chosen specifically because the image or text relates to the sitter, while others are left to chance. “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 says.

Take a closer look:

The post This Painter Discovered a Passion for Collage Art by Chance appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“I’d been doing collage out of a whole bunch of different materials, and initially, I wanted a piece of paper that was just super common — something that everyone could recognize,” he explained the backstory of his art in an interview with Kai Ryssdal. “There’s a power behind taking something that’s familiar to everyone and making it into something completely new.”

Through his unique art, he playfully explores the intersection of wealth, power, value, and American identity. Decades dedicated to destroying banknotes have provided Wagner with a unique perspective on the nature of money: modern man’s obsession with finance and our wistful attempts to tame it through economics.

But this exploration, as it turns out, is also unlawful, as the law clearly states that you can’t destroy American currency. “Any time I see my stuff referred to online, there’s always, like, a roll call of nannies and hall monitors complaining about it being illegal,” joked Wagner. “When people ask me that, I like to say, ‘Should it be illegal?'”

But while his art is illegal, it’s also highly coveted. Wagner’s work is collected by dozens of institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the US Federal Reserve Board, and the Smithsonian Institution. It has also been shown extensively at The Metropolitan Museum, The Getty Research Institute, and the National Portrait Gallery. You can also follow his art on Instagram:

The post Mark Wagner Puts His Money Where His Art Is appeared first on PlayJunkie.

The figures he chooses come to life in front of our eyes and are put in many different situations we find common today. From riding a bus to having a coffee, these unique characters blend into today’s world and effortlessly point out everything that’s different about two eras.

Kondakov is also an author of the ongoing series Daily Life of Gods in which he shows the alternate reality in which gods live among humans in the 21st century. With this project, he shows that context is everything and that some of the most elegant gods from museum paintings can look extremely different when put in different situations.

Scroll down to see his work.

The post Classical Painting Characters Experiencing Modern Life appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“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,” Adams told Interview Magazine.

His pieces are often very much layered – a hybrid and 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 says.

His multidisciplinary practice engages the ways in which individuals’ ideals, aspirations, and personae become attached to specific objects, colors, textures, symbols, and ideologies. But being a multidisciplinary artist also means that his work has a fluidity to it. “As the work becomes more stable, I move on to something else,” he admits. “I want to be immersed in what I’m doing, and when you’re unfamiliar with it, you become more present.”

Take a look at some of his work in the gallery below:

The post Derrick Adams’ Art Mixes Things Up appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Eugenia Loli

Collage artist, illustrator, and filmmaker, Eugenia Loli, is inspired by the works of Magritte, Dali, Picasso, and Andy Warhol. Originally from Greece, and currently based in California, she sees collage as “the ultimate remix visual art” in “the age of remix”. “Naturally, creativity flows through that medium, and it’s rather easy to get started with it, so it becomes very fun, very soon,” she expressed in an interview with Plastik Magazine.

Johanna Goodman

New York-based artist, Johanna Goodman, is a master of her craft, with clients that include The Museum of Natural History, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, Le Monde, and The New York Times, amongst others. According to Goodman, her collage tecniques are “really intuitive and surprising and sometimes totally confounding which is a real treat.”

Ted Feighan

Clevland-based visual artist and musician Ted Feighan likes incorporating tropical themes in his work – he’s inspired by travel, exotic plants and animals, and vintage interior design. “I’ll spend a lot of time cutting up paper and listening to records before I start to assemble any of the finished pieces,” he shared with the Urban Outfitters blog, talking about his creative process. “I’ll usually work on putting together a few at once.”

The post Here are Some Collage Artists You’ll Want to Follow on Instagram appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Talking about her artistic process, Goodman told AI-AP : “I have a few different styles. For years I’ve been making my illustrations by painting in oil and in ink. It’s been a long enough time that I feel totally comfortable in the medium. I do a lot of portraits, though not exclusively. I’ve always had a thing for faces and I looove painting likenesses. I will never tire of that. Sometimes, if I’m lucky, when working on a portrait I start to feel a real connection to the subject and I get on a whole empathetic humankind-we-are-all-one kind of trip.”

“On the other hand, my collages are relatively new and I really dig the process of not being able to plan ahead too much and not knowing what I’ll find to use next. It’s really intuitive and surprising and sometimes totally confounding which is a real treat.”

Check out some of her work in the gallery below.

The post Johanna Goodman’s Collages Are a Real Treat appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Inspired by graffiti, urban decay, and music, Voelker experiments with his source material, challenging our ideas about collage art. “I developed a process to fix the charcoal to paper to ensure its reliability as a medium for collage,” he explains. “The drawings are cut and arranged, layer after layer until a finished work emerges.”

With printmaking, Voelker first makes the prints with ink or paint, after which he cuts and collages them into complex layers with intersecting lines and spaces. According to him, this work involves an improvisational process of placing the pieces on a board, then arranging them as he sees fit.

Some of his work consists of white ovals or circles framing them (which are also collaged). According to Voelker, these ovals represent portals, through which the viewer is invited to look inside and catch a glimpse of something on the other side.

“I consider collage a language,” he says “and find interest in how individual pieces come together to convey a story.” Take a closer look:

The post Daniel Voelker is Fluent In the Language of Collage Making appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Much like her creations, her approach to collage making is rather unique. Intertwining different film and TV genres – from vintage Hollywood to 1970s sci-fi, B-movies, and TV trash – Rivans’ work is in a constant dialogue with cultures of the past, reinventing existing film plots and narratives while spinning bizarre and dreamlike tales.

Like most collage artists, her process begins with an extensive collection of vintage ephemera, which she scavenges from antique books and retro magazines. Like piecing together an unruly jigsaw puzzle, Rivans begins to collate and assemble the cut-out fragments and scraps, laboring over long periods and making alteration after alteration, until the collage begins to take shape.

Her use of collage might reflect the complex and fragmented world from which her art arises, but an attention to beauty and to the harmony of composition gestures optimistically towards the social capacity to piece it back together again.

Rivans’ work takes the form of both large-scale originals and limited edition prints. Each of her artworks is the product of months of careful deliberations and decisions, every tiny tweak necessary in the final formation. The result – whether big or small – is well worth following.

The post Surrealism Meets Pop-Art: Follow Collage Artist Maria Rivans appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“I decided on the medium of collage because I didn’t have money to buy ‘proper’ supplies like fancy brushes or even canvas when I first started out,” he admits on his website. “The paper I used then and still use today comes from abandoned spaces – old farmhouses, burned down buildings, abandoned gas stations, and the like.”

Multilayered and rich in narrative, his artwork weaves tales of foregone eras and untamed wilderness in an attempt to reignite our sense of adventure and wonder for the rugged American landscape. “I grew up on a farm, caught crickets and bailed hay, painted with mud, dug up civil war relics, listened to midnight mockingbirds,” he writes. “These are the ingredients of life that have stuck with me and have built the foundation for the artwork I set forth into the world.” 

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. Inspired by his longstanding fascination with the flora and fauna of his native Shenandoah Valley, country-western iconography, and folk and agrarian traditions, his expansive portfolio includes large-scale faux-taxidermy wall sculptures, elaborate paper collage portraits of classic American icons, and Animalia, as well as a plethora of mixed media works.

Handcrafting each work from an array of materials he’s been salvaging and collecting since I was a child, one single collage piece can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to complete. “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,” he says.

Follow his Instagram page for more:

The post Dolan Geiman Reuses Found Materials In Unique Ways appeared first on PlayJunkie.

The creative process itself is relatively simple, if messy: arranging his found paper in order to achieve colors or scales, then tearing, cutting, and folding the pieces and gluing them down. “If it works… great, If not start again making changes till I’m ok with it,” said Clark in an interview with Zoneone Arts.

Amongst his materials are old maps, which he uses “for color reasons, for information or joke reasons”. “I use the linear qualities within them sometimes to ‘draw’ with,” explains Clark, “they are so versatile, can be very specific or used in an abstract way. I love them, they enable one to instantly play and change scale!”

But another, equally important ingredient in his work is humor. “I try to inflict what amuses me onto my work,” he says. “I prefer the pieces to have different levels, and allow shadows to play within them,” he adds. “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.”

Here are some of his more unique creations:

The post Peter Clark’s Collage Art Is Full of Spunk appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“I always loved painting and I grew up in a very artistic family, my father being a painter and art teacher,” he explained in a piece he wrote for Artsy Shark. “I also remember being really influenced by seeing lots of the old Derek Riggs Iron Maiden album covers when I was little, as my sister was seeing a guy who was obsessed with them – the color and imagery in those was like nothing I’d ever seen before and has remained a pull to art ever since for me.”

But though his roots were in classical painting, his creative path eventually took him to collage art.”I ended up doing collage out of circumstance,” he admits. “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. I had a pile of old magazines so I began cutting them up and the first one I finished was of my nephew (George). 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.”

What began as a playful experimentation with an old pile of magazines would soon turn into a full-time gig. “I love the exploration involved with collage work,” says Bremer. Some of his pieces within each work are chosen specifically because the image or text relates to the sitter, while others are left to chance. “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 says.

Take a closer look:

The post This Painter Discovered a Passion for Collage Art by Chance appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“I’d been doing collage out of a whole bunch of different materials, and initially, I wanted a piece of paper that was just super common — something that everyone could recognize,” he explained the backstory of his art in an interview with Kai Ryssdal. “There’s a power behind taking something that’s familiar to everyone and making it into something completely new.”

Through his unique art, he playfully explores the intersection of wealth, power, value, and American identity. Decades dedicated to destroying banknotes have provided Wagner with a unique perspective on the nature of money: modern man’s obsession with finance and our wistful attempts to tame it through economics.

But this exploration, as it turns out, is also unlawful, as the law clearly states that you can’t destroy American currency. “Any time I see my stuff referred to online, there’s always, like, a roll call of nannies and hall monitors complaining about it being illegal,” joked Wagner. “When people ask me that, I like to say, ‘Should it be illegal?'”

But while his art is illegal, it’s also highly coveted. Wagner’s work is collected by dozens of institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the US Federal Reserve Board, and the Smithsonian Institution. It has also been shown extensively at The Metropolitan Museum, The Getty Research Institute, and the National Portrait Gallery. You can also follow his art on Instagram:

The post Mark Wagner Puts His Money Where His Art Is appeared first on PlayJunkie.

The figures he chooses come to life in front of our eyes and are put in many different situations we find common today. From riding a bus to having a coffee, these unique characters blend into today’s world and effortlessly point out everything that’s different about two eras.

Kondakov is also an author of the ongoing series Daily Life of Gods in which he shows the alternate reality in which gods live among humans in the 21st century. With this project, he shows that context is everything and that some of the most elegant gods from museum paintings can look extremely different when put in different situations.

Scroll down to see his work.

The post Classical Painting Characters Experiencing Modern Life appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“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,” Adams told Interview Magazine.

His pieces are often very much layered – a hybrid and 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 says.

His multidisciplinary practice engages the ways in which individuals’ ideals, aspirations, and personae become attached to specific objects, colors, textures, symbols, and ideologies. But being a multidisciplinary artist also means that his work has a fluidity to it. “As the work becomes more stable, I move on to something else,” he admits. “I want to be immersed in what I’m doing, and when you’re unfamiliar with it, you become more present.”

Take a look at some of his work in the gallery below:

The post Derrick Adams’ Art Mixes Things Up appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Eugenia Loli

Collage artist, illustrator, and filmmaker, Eugenia Loli, is inspired by the works of Magritte, Dali, Picasso, and Andy Warhol. Originally from Greece, and currently based in California, she sees collage as “the ultimate remix visual art” in “the age of remix”. “Naturally, creativity flows through that medium, and it’s rather easy to get started with it, so it becomes very fun, very soon,” she expressed in an interview with Plastik Magazine.

Johanna Goodman

New York-based artist, Johanna Goodman, is a master of her craft, with clients that include The Museum of Natural History, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, Le Monde, and The New York Times, amongst others. According to Goodman, her collage tecniques are “really intuitive and surprising and sometimes totally confounding which is a real treat.”

Ted Feighan

Clevland-based visual artist and musician Ted Feighan likes incorporating tropical themes in his work – he’s inspired by travel, exotic plants and animals, and vintage interior design. “I’ll spend a lot of time cutting up paper and listening to records before I start to assemble any of the finished pieces,” he shared with the Urban Outfitters blog, talking about his creative process. “I’ll usually work on putting together a few at once.”

The post Here are Some Collage Artists You’ll Want to Follow on Instagram appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Talking about her artistic process, Goodman told AI-AP : “I have a few different styles. For years I’ve been making my illustrations by painting in oil and in ink. It’s been a long enough time that I feel totally comfortable in the medium. I do a lot of portraits, though not exclusively. I’ve always had a thing for faces and I looove painting likenesses. I will never tire of that. Sometimes, if I’m lucky, when working on a portrait I start to feel a real connection to the subject and I get on a whole empathetic humankind-we-are-all-one kind of trip.”

“On the other hand, my collages are relatively new and I really dig the process of not being able to plan ahead too much and not knowing what I’ll find to use next. It’s really intuitive and surprising and sometimes totally confounding which is a real treat.”

Check out some of her work in the gallery below.

The post Johanna Goodman’s Collages Are a Real Treat appeared first on PlayJunkie.